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The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

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449 points lemper | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 06:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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michaelt ◴[27 Aug 25 08:19 UTC] No.45036843[source]▶
I'd be interested in knowing how many of y'all are being taught about this sort of thing in college ethics/safety/reliability classes.

I was taught about this in engineering school, as part of a general engineering course also covering things like bathtub reliability curves and how to calculate the number of redundant cooling pumps a nuclear power plant needs. But it's a long time since I was in college.

Is this sort of thing still taught to engineers and developers in college these days?

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lgeek ◴[27 Aug 25 08:56 UTC] No.45037049[source]▶
It was taught in a first year software ethics class on my Computer Science programme. Back in 2010. I'm wondering if they still do
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1. firesteelrain ◴[27 Aug 25 12:20 UTC] No.45038667[source]▶
I was taught Computer Ethics back in the early 2000s as part of my CS degree.