Article,
Computational science: ...Error
Nature, 467 (7317): 775--777 (Oct 14, 2010)
DOI: 10.1038/467775a
Abstract
…why scientific programming does not compute When hackers leaked thousands of e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, last year, global-warming sceptics pored over the documents for signs that researchers had manipulated data. No such evidence emerged, but the e-mails did reveal another problem — one described by a CRU employee named ” Harry”, who often wrote of his wrestling matches with wonky computer software.
