
deactivateduser60718
2019-10-23 14:08:08
For the history buffs: Does anyone know if the engineers of the Therac–25 faced disciplinary action once they learned it was killing people?

soegaard2
2019-10-23 14:13:31
Interesting story! Hadn’t heard it before. For others: https://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-therac-25/

soegaard2
2019-10-23 14:15:06
In-depth analysis: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs240/old/sp2014/readings/therac-25.pdf

samth
2019-10-23 14:15:51
I believe they settled out of court, and the engineer left the company before then, according to http://www.ccnr.org/fatal_dose.html