Learning from the Past to Face the Risks of Today.

The author describes her study of the computer software developed for the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Space Shuttle Program, with particular focus on the application of information about the successes and failures of these projects to modern software development. Topics i...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 38 - 43
Autor principal: Leveson, Nancy G.
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2013
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