From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu !csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 5
Subject: Re: In defense of Admiral tuttle
Date: 12 Jul 93 21:10:16 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jul12.211016.3445@mksol.dseg.ti.com> (raw)
In <EMERY.93Jul12113022@goldfinger.mitre.org> emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David
Emery) writes:
>And, if anyone has any doubts about the importance of software
>quality, I refer you to the recent IEEE Computer article by Nancy
>Levison, et al. analying software and system failures that caused a
>medical instrument to kill 6 people. Military systems, when they
>malfunction, are much more dangerous (just ask any relatives of the
>people on the Iranian flight that the Navy's Aegis system shot down.)
Also note that there *was* no malfunction of the Aegis system. It did
just what it was told to do. The 'malfunction' was human. This is
often the case when the system takes the blame.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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