(Year 2000 problem) The inability of older hardware and software to recognize the date after the year 2000. The reason they could not was because the year was stored with only two digits in many ...

By now the dreaded "Year 2000" (aka. Y2K, Millennium Bug) and the possibility of embedded chip problems for the shipping industry is, or should be, a top agenda item for most companies.

March 1 - Last week, details of a new U.S. Senate report on the year 2000 software bug were leaked to the media and revealed serious concerns about the readiness of several U.S. economic sectors, ...

Year 2000 problems and other factors will force more than half of IT departments to pull out of systems development within three years. Along with millennium problems, issues such as European ...

Most computer failures due to the Year 2000 problem will occur well before January 1st, 2000, and contingency plans need to be in place to handle failures by the end of the second quarter of this ...

PA Consulting recently carried out a major survey of business awareness of both the year 2000 and embedded-processor problems. Mike Bissett, a member of PA Consulting?s management group ...

In the final years of the 20th century, the so-called “year 2000 problem” was a matter of grave concern. The “Y2K scare,” as it was also known, referred to potential computer errors ...

While the rest of the world prepared to celebrate the Millennial year 2000, programmers quickly identified a problem with the ...