Books

• Safeware: System Safety and Computers, by Nancy G. Leveson, 1995

Research

• Inside Risks: Are You Sure Your Software Will Not Kill Anyone? CACM 2020
• Embedded Dangers: The History of the Year 2000 Problem and the Politics of Technological Repair, Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) 2017
• Improving Safety in Medical Devices and Systems, International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2013
• Unintended Overexposure of Patient Lisa Norris During Radiotherapy Treatment at the Beatson Oncology Centre, Glasgow in January 2006, Report to the Scottish Executive 2006
• Anatomy of a Runaway: FAA Shifts Focus to Scaled-Back DSR, IEEE Software March 1996
• Anatomy of a Runaway: What Grounded the AAS, IEEE Software January 1996
• An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents, Computer 1993
• Advanced Automation System Still Vulnerable to Cost and Schedule Problems, United States General Accounting Office September 1992
• Automating U.S. Air Lanes: A Review, IEEE Spectrum November 1982
• Scenarios for Evolution of Air Traffic Control, Rand Report R-2698-FAA November 1981
• Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, W.H. Freeman 1976
• Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation. Science, New Series 1960

Laws

Essays/Blogs

• Why the Free Covid Test Website Wasn’t a Dumpster Fire, Wired January 28, 2022
• The Coming Software Apocalypse, The Atlantic September 26, 2017
• Antiquated Air Traffic Control Systems Are Becoming a Serious Threat to Safety: America Could Learn a Few Things from Canada, The Economist August 10, 2016
• Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America’s Air Traffic Control, Wired February 24, 2015

News

• Faulty Software Snarls Vaccine Sign-ups, NYTimes March 12, 2021
• The Boeing 737 MAX remains a risky ride, The Globe and Mail January 21, 2021
• Boeing Pilot Complained of ʻEgregiousʼ Issue With 737 Max in 2016, NYTimes October 18, 2019
• ‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room, NYTimes October 12, 2019
• Boeing Underestimated Cockpit Chaos on 37 Max, N.T.S.B. Says, NYTimes September 26, 2019
• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? NYTimes September 18, 2019
• The Roots of Boeing’s 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight, NYTimes July 27, 2019
• Child Neglect Reports Sat Unread for 4 Years Because of an Email Mix-up, NYTimes July 15, 2019
• How One Computer System Tangled Up Several Airlines, NYTimes April 29, 2019
• Flight to Nowhere: A Special Report; Ambitious Upgrade of Air Navigation Becomes a Fiasco, NYTimes January 29, 1996

Websites

• Year 2000 Problem, Wikipedia