Software Bugs

Software Snakes On A Plane: An Interactive Thriller -- Part One

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Software Bugs, Self-Healing Computers, Cockpit Computer Design Errors, ADIRU Failures, Malaysia Air 747, Phugoid, Technology News
John T. Halliday

"Never trust human life solely on software." -- Dr. Nancy G. Leveson, MIT Dateline: August 2005. Imagine that you're the captain of this Malay...

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Software Snakes on a Plane 2 -- The Phone Interview

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renegade Computer, Nancy G. Leveson, Software Bugs, Malaysia Air 777 Incident, Autothrottles, Boeing 777, Rogue Computers, Phugoid, Interactive Complexity Across Computers Cause Failures, Literary Agent Sam Fleishman, Dr. Lisanne Bainbridge, Dr. Charles Perrow, Technology News
John T. Halliday

Dr. Nancy G. Leveson said, "There will always be another software bug; never trust human life solely on software." This assessment is significant when Sam Fleishman asks about the Boeing 777 rogue computer.

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