Measures have been promoted to share system modification checkpoints and in conducting simulation tests and troubleshooting know-how, while the commitment is being reinforced by setting up "Contact ...

Some of the computer systems in use today customarily process the year portion of any date as two digits (thus 1998 becomes 98). It is suspected that systems that employ this form of notation will ...

Ten years ago this week, the much-hyped Y2K crisis -- which had come in with a long, sustained roar -- went out with a whimper. In the years and months leading up to the new millennium, IT ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable ...

After a news conference, Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., chairman of Government Management, Information & Technology, examines a chart showing his grades for each agency's progress on the Y2K computer ...

In the late 1990s, computer nerds (myself included) were up in arms about the Y2K problem. In brief, the issue was that many computer systems used six-digit dates (two digits each for day, month, and ...

On the 25th anniversary of the Y2K scare, the eponymous film pokes fun at internet disasters. But real disruptions may loom in the future. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The ...