Re:The Therac-25 Incident
by haunter on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:39AM
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>We know that the software for the Therac-25 was developed by a single person, using PDP 11 assembly language, over a period of several years.
>The programmer left AECL in 1986. In a lawsuit connected with one of the accidents, the lawyers were unable to obtain information about the programmer from AECL. In the depositions connected with that case, none of the AECL employees questioned could provide any information about his educational background or experience.
Re:The Therac-25 Incident
by siva7 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:43AM
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Which would prevent how exactly such an incident? Of all the many reasons for this failure, that programmers educational background is probably the least one contributing factor.
>The programmer left AECL in 1986. In a lawsuit connected with one of the accidents, the lawyers were unable to obtain information about the programmer from AECL. In the depositions connected with that case, none of the AECL employees questioned could provide any information about his educational background or experience.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse470/Public/Handouts/Therac/Side_b...
Surely in the 80s someone working professionally on such a system had some university education?