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ARtPP6 Infomatics and Professional Responsibility by Donald Gotterbarn. In the summer of 1991 a major telephone outage occurred in the United States because an error was introduced when three lines of code were changed in a multi-million line signaling program. Because the three line change was viewed as insignificant, it was not tested. This type of interruption to software systems is too common. Not merely are systems interrupted but sometimes lives are lost because of software problems. A New Jersey inmate under computer-monitored house arrest removed his electronic anklet. "A computer detected the tampering. However, when it called a second computer to report the incident, the first computer received a busy signal and never called back." [Joch] While free, the escapee committed murder. In another case innocent victims were shot to death by the French police acting on an erroneous computer report. [Vallee]. In 1986 two cancer patients were killed because of a software error in a computer controlled X-ray machine. Full Article: http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/ARtPP6.htm |
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