Therac-25 accidents

[Jon P. Inghram]

Here's a very interesting paper about a string of accidents involving the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine: http://www.computer.org/computer/hom...eson/index.htm

Pretty scary what can go wrong when you've got buggy software running a high power particle accelerator.

[degrub]

Check out Nancy Leveson's site and papers for similar design errors.

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/

specifically for spacecraft:

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/jsr.pdf

also some interesting thoughts on the Airbus aircraft controls - "the computer is always correct"



Frank

" Boeing- we give the pilot the last say, even if it is the pilot's last say.."

[Dr Mordrid]

There is NO room for error when dealing with linacs....they taught us that on day one

Dr. Mordrid