Software Bugs That Cause Real-World Harm | Pointers Gone Wild
Years ago, when I was an undergraduate student at McGill, I took a software engineering class, and as part of that class, I heard the infamous story of the Therac-25 computer-controlled radiotherap…
Software Bugs That Cause Real-World Harm Pointers Gone Wild Software Bugs That Cause Real-World Harm May 29th, 2023 Years ago, when I was an undergraduate student at McGill, I took a software engineering class, and as part of that class, I heard the infamous story of the Therac-25 computer-controlled radiotherapy machine. Long story short: a software bug caused the machine to occasionally give radiation doses that were sometimes hundreds of times greater than normal, which could result in grave injury or death. This story gets told in class to make an important point: don't be a cowboy, if you
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