-Caveat Lector- Have no way of knowing if this is on the level or not...does anyone know? Any posotive info should be passed far and wide.....b Cliff Hume wrote: > > >X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 22 09:30:43 1999 > >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Karolyn Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "Karolyn Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Mike Timmins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tom Gerken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "Maureen McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "Carol Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "Captain Jim McManus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "citizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "basil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cliff Hume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > "Jim Holly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "E.Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Fw: Computer amateur discovers Y2K bug solution > >Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 15:07:40 -0500 > >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: spiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Recipient list suppressed <Recipient list suppressed> > >Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:01 AM > >Subject: Computer amateur discovers Y2K bug solution > > > > > >>The Jerusalem Post Newspaper: Online News From Israel > >>http://www.jpost.com/ > >> > >>Computer amateur discovers Y2K bug solution > >> > >>Byline: JUDY SIEGEL > >>Date: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 > >>Publication: Daily Page: 01 > >>Section: News > >>Keywords: Computer, Time, Ben-Etzion Yaron > >> > >>A computer amateur, who took a six-month programming course 27 years ago > >and > >>has since learned applications during his IDF reserve duty, has found a > >>solution to the > >>Y2K computer bug that is applicable to all databases. > >> > >>The revolutionary solution, for which patents have been applied in the US, > >>compresses four digits for the 21st century into two symbols, without > >>interfering with > >>any years from the 20th century. It accomplishes this by using special > >>algorithms for > >>expanding two symbols into four digits and compressing four digits into two > >>symbols. > >> > >>The achievement belongs to Ben-Etzion Yaron, head of manpower and payroll > >>in the > >>Hebrew University's department of computerized information systems. It has > >>already > >>proven itself in checking for and fixing computer bugs in the department's > >>listing of > >>faculty sabbaticals scheduled for the 21st century. > >> > >>Yaron received a Kaye Prize for Innovation from the HU last June for a > >program > >>that identifies the bugs in programs running only on VAX computers. > >>Realizing that > >>this limitation would restrict the use of his invention, he worked day and > >>night over > >>the past two months to expand the application to all computers and computer > >>languages. The only Y2K bugs it cannot fix, he said, are those in computer > >>components embedded in equipment, such as medical devices. > >> > >>The result of his work is Sapir 2000, which makes possible the analysis of > >>computer > >>programs written in COBOL, used in the 1970s and '80s for databases that > >its > >>developers thought would be abandoned by the end of the century but > >remained, > >>with repairs over the years, to cause the Y2K bug. > >> > >>Yaron's invention can even identify errors in other programs that have > >>already been > >>revamped to cope with Y2K and make corrections, thus providing a kind of > >>'second > >>opinion' to ensure that chaos does not ensue after January 1. Sapir 2000 > >>can also be > >>applied to other situations requiring expansion of existing information to > >>incorporate > >>additional digits. > >> > >>It is estimated that the time needed by Yaron's program to make databases > >>compatible with the next century is 15 percent-20% of the time required > >>using other > >>solutions. > >> > >>Yaron said his program would not become obsolete after January 1. Many > >>programming errors will appear for years afterward, he explained, 'and > >>Sapir 2000 is > >>extremely flexible so it will deal with problems that we can't even realize > >>today.' > >> > >>HU vice president and director-general Moshe Vigdor said that the > >university's > >>research and development arm, Yissum, has signed a contract with Magic > >Software > >>Enterprises, an international firm that supplies computerized solutions for > >>companies. > >> > >>Magic's local subsidiary is MSE-Israel, whose president and CEO Jack > >>Dunietz and > >>managing director Oren Inbar were present at yesterday's unveiling of Sapir > >>2000. > >>MSE-Israel will initially market and distribute the new product in Israel > >>and, if all > >>goes well, the product will be sold worldwide, mainly via the Internet. > >> > >>Inbar said that potential customers may ask MSE-Israel to convert parts of > >>programs on a trial basis free and pay only if they are satisfied and want > >>more work > >>done. MSE- Israel has decided to donate $100,000 worth of development kits, > >>study material, lectures, and consultancies to HU to promote advancement of > >>students at its new School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, which is > >>due to > >>open its academic year next month on the Givat Ram campus. > > > > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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