'Bruce Willis is Braver than You Think': New Techniques for Analysing Software Failures in NASA's Space Missions

Speaker: Chris Johnson

26th February 2004 , 2:00pm , Room 118, Claremont Tower

Abstract

I'll talk about a joint project with NASA Langley to develop analysis techniques that can be used to identify the causes of failures involving complex programmable systems. In particular, I will look at a joint analysis of the Mars Surveyor `mishaps' and the SOHO observatory mission interruption. I can also briefly discuss more recent initiatives such as the new NASA safety centre being set up after the Columbia accident report.

Chris Johnson,
Department of Computing Science,
Univ. of Glasgow.