Disasters and fiascos

Bell, R. and Bennett, P. A. 2000.  IEC 61508 functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety related systems.  Computing and Control Engineering Journal, 11(1): 3-5.

Bell, T. E. and Esch, K. 1987.  The fatal flaws in flight 51-2.  IEEE Spectrum (2): 36-51.  Compare to Vaughan, D. 1996.  The Challenger Launch Decision.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chaisson, E. J, 1994.  The Hubble War.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Fielder, J. H. and Birsch, D. 1992.  The DC-10 Case: A Study in Applied Ethics, Technology, and Society.  Albany: State University of New York.

General Accounting Office. 1998.  Evolution and status of FAA’s automation program, GAO/T-RCED/AIMD-98-85.

Hayes, W. W., Chaker, A. A., and Hunt, C. 1999.  Learning from disasters.  Civil Engineering Magazine December, www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/1299feat.html.

Jezequel, J-M and Meyer, M. 1997.  Design by contract: the lessons of Ariane, IEEE Computer 30(1): 129-30.

Leveson, H. G. and Turner, C. S. 1993.  An investigation of the Therac-25 accidents.  IEEE Computer, 25(7), 18-41.

Lovell, J. and Kluger, J. 1994.  Apollo 13.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Oz. E. 1994.  When professional standard are lax: the CONFIRM failure and its lessons.  Communications of the ACM, 37(10): 29-36.

Petroski, H. 1982.  To Engineer is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design.  New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Managing risks

Bruce, J. P., Lee, H., and Haites, E. F., eds.  1995.  Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change.  New York: Cambridge University Press, chapters 1 and 2 explains the approaches in assessing the risks of global warming.

Edusi-Mensah, K. 1999.  Critical issues in abandoned information systems development projects.  Communications of the ACM, 40(9): 74-80.

Evan, W. M. and Manion, M. 2002.  Minding the Machine: Preventing Technological Disasters.  Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall.

Foster, K. R., Vecchia, P. and Repacholi, M. H. 2000.  Science and the precautionary principle.  Science, 288: 979-81.

Grahm, J. D. and Wiener, J. B. eds. 1995.  Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Heimann, C. F. L. 1997.  Acceptable Risk: Politics, Policy, and Risky Technologies.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hoffrage, U., Lindsey, S., Hertwig, R., and Gigerenzer, G. 2000.  Communicating statistical information.  Science, 290: 2261-4.

Lester, M. 2000.  Communicate risk effectively.  Chemical Engineering Progress, June: 79-83.

Longstaff, T. A., Chittister, C., Pethia, R.  Are we forgetting the risk of information technology?  IEEE Computer, 33(12): 43-51.

Morgan, M. G. 1993.  Risk analysis and management.  Scientific American, July: 32-41.

Neumann, P. G. 1995.  Computer-related Risks.  New York: ACM Press.

Perrow, C. 1984.  Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies.  New York: Basic Book.

Stix, G. 1998.  A calculus of risk.  Scientific American, May: 92-7.

Tenner, Edward. 1997.  Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.  New York: Knopf.

Perception of risks

Flynn, J. Slovic, P. and Kunreuther, H. eds. 2001.  Risk, Media, and Stigma: Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology.  London: Earthscan.