Researchers warned: 'systems could crash on 1 January 2000'

摘要

Time is fast running out for research organizations that have not yet tested their information technology systems for the 'millennium bug' — a programming glitch in many microprocessors which will pre-venthem from recognizing the year 2000. This, atleast, is the growing consensus among computer experts, who predict mayhem in many sectors of society, including parts of the research community, unless computers and intelligent devices are repaired before then. Estimates of the worldwide costs of doing so are as high as US600 dollar billion.