title: Rampant software errors may undermine scientific results.
abstract: The opportunities for both subtle and profound errors in software and data management are boundless, yet they remain surprisingly underappreciated. Here I estimate that any reported scientific result could very well be wrong if data have passed through a computer, and that these errors may remain largely undetected.  It is therefore necessary to greatly expand our efforts to validate scientific software and computed results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA ; Current address: Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
authors.forename: David A W
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Soergel
keywords: data management; software error