Soergel David A W
Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, USA ; Current address: Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
F1000Res. 2014 Dec 11;3:303. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.5930.2. eCollection 2014.
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.
软件和数据管理中出现细微和严重错误的可能性是无穷无尽的，但它们仍令人惊讶地未得到充分重视。在此我估计，如果数据经过了计算机处理，那么任何报道的科学结果很可能是错误的，而且这些错误可能在很大程度上未被发现。因此，有必要大力加强我们对科学软件和计算结果进行验证的工作。
