Les bugs les plus célèbres de l’histoire Causes techniques et humaines En 2009‚ probablement en raison d’une erreur présumée dans le fonctionnement des sondes Pitot fournies par la société Thalès‚ l’Airbus 453 Rio-Paris disparaît mystérieusement dans l’Atlantique. Le syndicat des pilotes demande à son personnel de ne plus naviguer sur les Airbus dont au moins deux Pitots n’ont pas été modifiées. A la suite de plusieurs incidents les mois précédents‚ la société Thalès avait déjà mis en garde
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Safety-critical software and life critical software means that any malfunction of the software will very probably result in extreme consequence and even loss of human life. Organisation developing such systems ought to exercise extreme caution against system failure (Nilsen‚ 2004). Tavani (2007) emphasize the importance of industry wide standard for design and development of such artefacts to assure the reliability and safety towards society. Additionally‚ most industries are closely regulated by
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LAS 432—November 2014 Write essays of about one page (300 words) to each of the following questions. Each question is based on an assigned chapter from our textbook. Write the response in your own words. You may use short quotes of a sentence or less from the textbook to support your ideas‚ and you may also refer to the videos we watched in class‚ but don’t use any external sites. Chapter 1 In class we watched United States of Secrets‚ which detailed the NSA’s controversial domestic spying
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1. Mariner Bugs Out (1962) Cost: $18.5 million Disaster: The Mariner 1 rocket with a space probe headed for Venus diverted from its intended flight path shortly after launch. Mission Control destroyed the rocket 293 seconds after liftoff. Cause: A programmer incorrectly transcribed a handwritten formula into computer code‚ missing a single superscript bar. Without the smoothing function indicated by the bar‚ the software treated normal variations of velocity as if they were serious‚ causing
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economic and human loss eg. ESA’s Ariane 5 rocket failure‚ Therac-25 disaster For safety critical softwares the impact is particularly severe Anirban Roy Choudhury Generation of Program Invariants using Abstract Interpretation Introduction Our Contribution Abstract Interpretation Abstract Domains Motivation A faulty computer software can cause significant economic and human loss eg. ESA’s Ariane 5 rocket failure‚ Therac-25 disaster For safety critical softwares the impact is
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Moot: “Technology is a liberator‚ not merely an instrument of power or in any way a threat to humanity.” Views of Technology‚ Ian Barbour. In “Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage”‚ Hester‚ D. Micah and Ford‚ Paul J. Prentice Hall: 2001. Technology as a threat to Humanity. This claim of technology and its developments has been argued for more than a decade as it continues to evolve. Firstly‚ the noun ‘threat’ as defined by The Oxford Dictionary is ‘a person or thing likely to cause damage or
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TwinTech University [pic] Course Syllabus Spring 2011 - 2012 Course Title: Ethical and legal aspect in computing Instructor: Dr. Nagi Ali Al-shaibany Email: shaibany@yahoo.com Office Room: Office hours: Whenever available or with appointment Textbook: Sara Baase. “A gift of fire A: Social‚ Legal‚ and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet‚ 3/E - 2008- Prentice Hall Course Description: This course deals with the impact of computers on us as individuals and
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Technology and Ethics Though there are many advantages to the fact that technology’s computing power doubles every 18 months‚ there also lie ethical issues. As technology advances‚ society becomes more dependent on and at risk to the unfathomable fast growing industry. Our culture is driven by the advancements in technology every day from our automobiles‚ means of communication‚ and banking just to name a few‚ which constantly puts the tasks of our daily lives in the hands of computers. But
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History of software engineering From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2011) History of computing Hardware • Hardware before 1960 • Hardware 1960s to present • Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries Software • Software • Unix • Open-source software Computer science
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and reputations. Life and Death: Software defects can kill. Some embedded systems used in radiotherapy machines failed so catastrophically that they administered lethal doses of radiation to patients. The most famous of these failures is the Therac 25 incident. Peter G. Neumann has kept a contemporary list of software problems and
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