Crash-proof computer tactic revealed by UK researchers

February 17, 2013

For a PC user, nothing chills the heart like the "Blue Screen of Death" in Windows. It means the computer has crashed. Although crashes are as old as computers, some UK researchers may be taking the first steps toward sending blue screens to the same graveyard where 5.25-inch floppy disks are buried. The boffins at University College in London (UCL) have made something they're calling a "systemic computer" that they say taps into the chaos found in nature to enable a computer to heal itself. A chief cause of computer crashes, according to the researchers, is the way computers process the instructions in the programs they run. They do that sequentially, a step at a time. Disturb that sequence, and the computer jumps the track and crashes. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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