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It does happen. I refer you to the Therac-25. http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf http://courses.cs.vt.edu/pr
by fotbr 12y ago
It does happen. I refer you to the Therac-25.
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/professionalism/Therac_25/Therac_1.html http://courses.cs.vt.edu/professionalism/Therac_25/Therac_1....
plenty of other reading:
https://www.google.com/#q=therac-25 https://www.google.com/#q=therac-25
- angersock 12y agoYeah, I'm familiar with that--note again that that was a combination of hardware and software, and that the perhaps leading cause of actual damage was the omission of a mechanical safety interlock that existed on earlier models; with that interlock, the buggy software wouldn't have mattered. There is a difference between embedded systems or devices (pacemakers, imaging devices, etc.) and EMR/records/data mining software. The regulations are all calibrated to defend against a Therac-25 (well, sort of) and seemingly not to deal with modern software development or deployment.