rob@amadeus.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque) (03/19/88)
Gene Spafford writes: > Software caused deaths >and major property losses have occurred, and you can be sure someone is >going to pay for those! > In the March 12th Science News, there is an article about FDA regulation of software contained in medical instruments. In it they mention where two deaths and a severe burn were caused by a bug in a linear accelerator (used in radiation therapy for cancer). These are the first cases I have ever heard about where a death was directly attributed to a software bug. Are these the only cases, or have there been others? --- Dan Tilque -- dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM