How to Complete this Lesson

Complete the following learning activities: (3.5–4 hours total)

  1. Watch Embedded System Safety and Therac 25 (3 minutes)
  2. Read “Medical Devices: The Therac-25 story” (excerpt from Safeware: System Safety and Computers) (copy) (150–180 minutes)
  3. Attend the class meeting (60 minutes)

Resources

Further Reading

Leveson and Turner, “An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents,” Computer, Vol. 26, No. 7, pp. 18–41, July 1993

Leveson, “The Therac-25: 30 Years Later,” Computer, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. 8–11, November 2017