CMPT 100 Lecture : CMPT 100
3 Mar 2012
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>several billions of $ spent to back it up. If clerk entered in wrong mode or data, realized mistake and quickly changed it to the correct info, the machine kept the original #, as a result 6 patients died and some were harmed. >see link on ppt for 50pg report about other mistakes. The ppl who engineered the therac 20 machine had no real training for compu programing. >goes to show that a mess up in compu programming can ultimately kill ppl: plane crash in singapore. Took off autopilot mode, and tried to manually compensate for problems: toyota acceleration problem. Bug (maybe some outside source that triggered a hyper mode: bank system. Bank lost 100 million dollars while trying to fix it: middle east (downtown toronto) Took 4 days to get back up and running: stock trading. Stock market programs that start feeding each other: war-early 80s.
