The cyber bug problem is magnified by the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), which reportedly will add 50 billion devices by 2020. The Y2K problem was driven by the Julian calendar—programmers ...

In 1998, I was asked by the United States Treasury Department to be on a year 2000 task-force. The main aim of this was, of course, to address the looming “Y2K” problem, a software bug arising ...