Weir, of Los Alamos' Computing, Information and Communications Division Office, is the Laboratory's Year 2000 Project Team leader. The talk is sponsored by the Taos Y2K Group, an organization made up of citizens, businesses and organizations, the Taos County Chamber of Commerce, the Taos County Commission and other local government officials. The talk free and open to the public and light refreshments will be available. Julia Pyatt, a volunteer member of the outreach committee of Taos Y2K, said the presentation is being held to raise awareness of preparedness plans for the year 2000 millennium bug.
People have concerns about nuclear energy and the whole nuclear thing.
Yourdon lives in Taos. Operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration , of the US Department of Energy.