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Software's Chronic Crisis

Despite 50 years of progress, the software industry remains years-- perhaps decades-- short of the mature engineering discipline needed to meet the demands of an information-age society

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W. Wayt Gibbs is a contributing editor for Scientific American based in Seattle. He also works as a scientific editor at Intellectual Ventures.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 271 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “Software's Chronic Crisis” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 271 No. 3 (), p. 86
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0994-86