STORY:
Rubik Cube Whiz Kid Solves Y2K Bug

According to a Reuters News report, a man who solved the riddle of Rubik's cube has invented a test kit to detect where the millennium computer bug will strike. At the age of 12, Patrick Bossert shot to fame when he worked out his own solution to the mystifying cube and wrote a bestseller about it that sold 1.5 million copies.

Now 30, he and a team of software experts at London-based WSP Business Technology have developed Delta-T Probe, a program that can work out whether microchips embedded in electronic equipment are likely to fail on January 1, 2000.

The Reuters news report which appears on the CNN website says Delta-T works by electronically detecting equipment to identify chips that process date and time, making it likely to malfunction when 1999 becomes 2000.

Source: Reuters (Full Text)

DATE: 2/23/99

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