The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing: In the Honor of William C. Carter (Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems)

This book contains contributions from a group of eminent computer scientists and engineers from several countries. It covers the evolution, the state of the art and the future perspectives of the field of fault-tolerant computing. Historic developments in academia and industry are described by those people who themselves have been actively involved in bringing them about. The papers were originally presented at a symposium on "The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing" organized by the IFIP WG 10.4 "Reliable Computing and Fault-Tolerance", held in Baden, Austria, on June 30, 1986.Avizienis, A. is the author of 'The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing: In the Honor of William C. Carter (Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems)', published 2000 under ISBN 9783211819418 and ISBN 321181941X.