On building systems that will fail

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 72-81

  Corbató, Fernando J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 5644220835     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/114669.114686     Document Type: Article

References (16)

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3. Corbató, F.J., and Clingen, C.T. A managerial view of the Multics system development. In Research Directions in Software Technology, P. Wegner, Ed., M.I.T. Press, 1979. (Also published in Tutorial: Software Management, D.J. Reifer, Ed., IEEE Computer Society Press, 1979; Second Ed., 1981; Third Ed., 1986.)
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11. Neumann, P.G., a Multics veteran, has become a major contributor to the literature of computer-related risks. He is the editor of the widely-read network magazine “Risks-Forum,” writes the “Inside Risks” column for the CACM, and periodically creates digests in the ACM Software Engineering Notes.
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