I need several articles, seven to ten of them, on software bugs. 
Specifically, software bugs that affect the software industry, the
individual consumer, and society as a whole.  The articles in their
originial form are all I need.

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Clarification of Question by eyecue-ga on 12 Nov 2002 18:15 PST

Also, I prefer lengthier articles of at 3 pages.

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Request for Question Clarification by tar_heel_v-ga on 12 Nov 2002 18:40 PST

Hell, eyecue, 

Are you looking for something along the lines of
this:http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane.html or more in
the retail sector or a combination of all?

-THV

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Clarification of Question by eyecue-ga on 12 Nov 2002 18:42 PST

A combination of both, how it affects both commercial ventures such as
the ariane failure and the mars probe disaster, and the retail sector
and how it affects the home user.

Hello,

Slashdot.org did an mention of a website written by Professor Thomas
Huckle of the "Institut für Informatik" which deals specifically with
large scale software bugs (link below). On it, they mention 48
separate events involving computer bugs, and the repercussions of
each. All 48 link to single or multiple articles chronicling each
event. I'll give 3 here, and you can read the rest on the website.
Glad I could help you with your question.


1. Ariane 5, Explosion
(data conversion of a too large number, 1996)
http://www.math.psu.edu/dna/disasters/ariane.html
http://www.around.com/ariane.html
http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/Pr_33_1996_p_EN.html
http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/DOCS/ComAndRep/Ariane/Esa/ariane5/COPY/ariane5rep.html

2. Pentium Processor, Division Algorithm
(incomplete entries in a look-up-table, 1994)
http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/dsvp_gr/roxby/ee4a3/Lecture2/sld013.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentium/fdiv/
http://www-math.mit.edu/~edelman/
http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~dusko/cs63/fpu.html

3. Patriot-Scud
(rounding error, 1991)
www.math.psu.edu/dna/disasters/patriot.html


Search Strategy:

my memory of reading article on Slashdot.org

bugs on slashdot.org:
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?threshold=1&query=bugs&op=stories&sort=1&start=30


Additional Links:

Slashdot.org "Debug your Code, or Else!":
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/02/1525210&mode=thread&tid=128

Collection of Software Bugs by Professor Thomas Huckle:
http://wwwzenger.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/persons/huckle/bugse.html


Thank you for the opportunity to answer your question, if you require
more information, please clarify the question, or if you find this
answer satisfactory, please feel free to rate it. Thank you!

skermit-ga

Very good, exactly what I needed.  Use this service.