The Therac-25: 30 Years Later
A widely cited 1993 Computer article described failures in a software-controlled radiation machine that massively overdosed six people in the late 1980s, resulting in serious injury and fatalities. How far have safety-critical systems come since then?
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| author | Leveson, Nancy G. Leveson, Nancy G |
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| description | A widely cited 1993 Computer article described failures in a software-controlled radiation machine that massively overdosed six people in the late 1980s, resulting in serious injury and fatalities. How far have safety-critical systems come since then? |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1152982019-05-17T09:23:06Z The Therac-25: 30 Years Later Leveson, Nancy G. Leveson, Nancy G Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Leveson, Nancy G Leveson, Nancy G A widely cited 1993 Computer article described failures in a software-controlled radiation machine that massively overdosed six people in the late 1980s, resulting in serious injury and fatalities. How far have safety-critical systems come since then? 2018-05-10T18:27:04Z 2018-05-10T18:27:04Z 2017-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0018-9162 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115298 Leveson, Nancy G. “The Therac-25: 30 Years Later.” Computer 50, 11 (November 2017): 8–11 © 2017 IEEE OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2017.4041349 Computer Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/octet-stream Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Prof. Leveson |
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| title | The Therac-25: 30 Years Later |
| title_full | The Therac-25: 30 Years Later |
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| title_short | The Therac-25: 30 Years Later |
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