CSCI 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Dhahran, Component-Based Software Engineering, Year 2000 Problem

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CSCI 1120
• Professor: Christian Blouin

Document Summary

Software is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. A program is one project that is ultimately compiled into an executable, but is only a component of something bigger and is not a software on its own. Software is also not just code, it is also data that comes with the code. Software is an intellectual property that should be protected. Y2k: not a parti(cid:272)ularly i(cid:374)teresti(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:271)ug(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it (cid:449)as (cid:373)ostly i(cid:374) peoples heads. It only caused minor problems and some things needed to be patched. Dhahran missile (1991: there was the first iteration of a war on iraq. At some point, the missile defense system failed and one iraqi missile got through. The radar is normally supposed to pick up on a missile and track the movement of the missile in a small area. 24 so the last few bits were discarded.