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INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Nancy Leveson LOCATION AND DATE: Talaris (nee Aljoya) Conference Center, Seattle, WA, June 21-25, 2010TEXTS: (1) N.G. Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers, Addison-Wesley, 1995 and (2) draft chapters of my new book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Software allows unprecedented levels of complexity and
new failure modes that are starting to overwhelm the standard approaches
to ensuring safety. The causes of accidents are even changing. This
class will cover fundamental concepts and techniques in building and
ensuring safety, with particular emphasis on those aspects of complex
systems not handled well by traditional system safety approaches, such
as software and human-computer interaction. While traditional system
safety will be covered, new and unique approaches to hazard analysis,
root cause analysis, and risk management will be covered including the
instructors new STAMP accident causation model and new hazard analysis
technique called STPA. Emphasis will be on procedures and techniques that are practical enough to be applied to projects today. Real project experiences with these techniques in different application areas will be described and recent software-related accidents will be reviewed and analyzed. The goal of this class is not to learn how to satisfy a particular safety standard but rather how to design a tailored program that will be most effective for your project. The class size will be limited to encourage interaction. Students will work on example problems in small groups. |
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Dr. Leveson is a Professor in the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Dept.
and in the Engineering Systems Division and is head of
the MIT Complex Systems Research Lab (CSRL). Previously, she was Boeing
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
Washington. Dr. Leveson is a founder of the field of software safety and
has worked in this area since 1980. Before becoming a professor, she was
a system engineer for IBM. Dr. Leveson consults widely on
safety-critical systems for both government and industry and has worked
with aerospace, nuclear power, transportation, aircraft, and medical
systems. In 1995, Dr. Leveson was awarded the AIAA Information Systems
Award for ``developing the field of software safety and system
engineering practices where life and property are at stake.'' She
received the 1999 ACM Allen Newell Award for "pioneering work in
establishing the foundations of software safety," and the 2004 ACM
Outstanding Software Research Award. In 1999, Dr. Leveson was elected to
the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
For Additional Information Contact: Dr. Nancy Leveson 617-258-0505 leveson@mit.edu |
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