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Nancy Leveson

Nancy Leveson, an American computer scientist, wears glasses, a black top, and an orange scarf, standing against a plain background.

American computer scientist, now professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, who founded the field of software safety engineering. Her 1993 paper with Clark Turner is the definitive forensic account of the Therac-25 accidents, assembled from incident reports, hardware traces and operator interviews after AECL refused full disclosure of the source code. Her later book Safeware became the standard textbook for the discipline.

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