Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snowy Cambridge, however, the millennium--in popular parlance, if not technically accurate--may bring more headaches than thrills. The University, tied up in endless wiring and technology, faces a potentially disastrous start to the next millennium, as the so-called Y2K bug threatens the gadgets and infrastructure that keep the University running...
...University has responded by commissioning a team of Harvard computer programmers that has been working for months to avert disaster, reprogramming, testing and planning for the Y2K bug...
...bug posed myriad safety problems. For example, the computers used by the Harvard University Police Department were vulnerable to the glitch, as was the keycard system that is supposed to let Harvard students into their dorms and keep intruders...
...more than a year, Harvard has been trying to respond to the Y2K bug, setting up a team of experts to address the problem...
...There is more uncertainty about every last individual laboratory and software program," Fineberg says, adding that the costs of the Y2K bug on even the smaller areas could be devastating...