Expert systems: a question of liability?
MIS Quarterly
Inside risks: certifying professionals
Communications of the ACM
How good is good enough?: an ethical analysis of software construction and use
Communications of the ACM
Rise and resurrection of the American programmer
Rise and resurrection of the American programmer
A framework to limit systems developers' legal liabilities
Journal of Management Information Systems
Toward an assessment of software development risk
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
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The legal system will ultimately determine where much of the huge losses that will be occasioned by the Millennium Bug will land. Seemingly minor glitches, such as a computerized inventory control system’s wrongfully rejecting an order of chemicals as expired since 1900 (when the real expiration date is in the year 2000) can create a myriad of lawsuits among manufacturers, suppliers, customers, software vendors and consultants, and insurance companies. No major producers or consumers of software will escape unscathed. Although software producers have grounds for optimism regarding the early rounds of litigation, it is likely that persistent plaintiffs’ attorneys and concerned legislators ultimately will threaten a “litigation crisis” of unprecedented proportions. The software industry can fruitfully draw strategic lessons from the accounting profession’s similar litigation crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s in terms of litigation strategies, lobbying efforts, and funding of useful academic research.