From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 12 Jul 93 21:10:16 GMT 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 75-3539) Subject: Re: In defense of Admiral tuttle Message-ID: <1993Jul12.211016.3445@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.