I don't know what happened to him, but his ideas have been merged or still live on today in various forms.
While it's a laudable goal, in reality one can never assume that any given software is going to be truly defect free. If high reliability is called for, then the service being offered must be supported by redundant, parallel servers.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.