Trusted Digital Facility

Full Title or Meme

A Trusted Digital Facility is a fenced structure that is designed and built for a particular purpose and can be isolated for evaluation of the Security and Reliability of the structure as a whole.

Context

Consider the Star-ship Enterprise that is isolated in space and equipped with its own Artificial Intelligence that can operate in isolation from other digital facilities. This is one of many Science-fiction stories that predicted the problems that might come with powerful computer systems. The following scenario is lifted from "A Deepness in the Sky", a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge published in 1999.

There is only pne important thing thing you have to learn. Ober thousands of years the Machine memories

have been filled with programs that can help. But like Bret says, many of those programs are wise. All of them are buggy, and only the top level ones are precisely appropriate for our needs. She paused, looked at them significantly. It takes a smart and highly trained human being to look at what is available, to choose and modify the right programs, then to interpret the results properly.

Pham was silent for a moment, thinking back to all the times the machines had not done what he really wanted. It wasn't always Pham's fault. The programs that tried to translate Can Baron to Knees were crap. so you want me to learn to program something better. Sure grinned, and there was a barely suppressed chuckle from bread. Will be satisfied if you become a good programmer and then learn the stuff that already exists. Family and spent years learning to program, explore programming. Went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back in his father's castle. Where the creek had worn that away. 10 m d' there were the crumpled hawks of machines, machines, the peasants.