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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (547)8/3/1998 10:12:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
Feds Fret Over Embedded
Millennium Bug
(08/01/98; 9:54 a.m. ET)
By George Leopold, EE Times

Embedded systems continue to be a major worry for
federal officials working to coordinate national efforts to
confront the year 2000 bug.

Members of a presidential council on year 2000
conversion said their awareness campaign focuses on
checking embedded chips "to determine whether those
that are date-sensitive need to be replaced or
reprogrammed." John Koskinen, chairman of the
President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, called
the effort "a growth industry."

"We are also encouraging those in the private sector,
those at the state and local level, and our international
partners to ensure that their critical systems are ready
for the new millennium," Koskinen said.

Federal officials in Washington, D.C. kicked off an
awareness campaign by focusing on the impact of the
year 2000 bug on the U.S. electric power grid.
Embedded systems that control the power grid could
result in regional blackouts or brownouts if problems
aren't corrected in the next 500 days.

The severity of the problem is expected to decline as
power moves though transmission lines to consumers,
said Michehl Gent, president of the North American
Electric Reliability Council. The group has been tapped
to assess the electric-power industry's preparations.
"I'm more worried about the computer that controls
[the] interconnection" between neighboring states, Gent
said.

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