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World Congress 2022 • Jun 15, 2022

The Software Bug All Stars - and what we can learn from them

Christian Seifert

A unit conversion error destroyed a Mars orbiter. A leap year calculation bricked the Microsoft Zune. Discover how studying history's biggest bugs helps developers write bulletproof code.

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