Safeware: System Safety and Computers

Leveson, Nancy G.

ISBN 10: 0201119722 / ISBN 13: 9780201119725

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Safeware: System Safety and Computers
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201119722
• ISBN 13: 9780201119725
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Software engineers and system developers need to understand the issues and develop the skills required to prevent destructive accidents before they occur. This book examines what is currently known about building safe electromechanical systems and looks at past accidents to see what lessons can be applied to new computer-controlled systems.

About the Author

Nancy G. Leveson is Boeing Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (and Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia). Dr. Leveson recently was awarded the Information System Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, " . . . for developing the field of software safety and for promoting responsible software and system engineering practices where life and liberty are at stake." She is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and a meember of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, the National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, and the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy. She recently chaired a National Academy of Science study for NASA of the Space Shuttle software development process.

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