Nancy Leveson

Nancy G. Leveson is a leading American expert in system and software safety. She is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, United States.^[1]

Nancy Leveson gained her degrees (in computer science, mathematics and management) from UCLA, including her PhD in 1980. Previously she worked at University of California, Irvine and the University of Washington as a faculty member. She has studied safety-critical systems such as the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) for the avoidance of midair collisions between aircraft and problems with the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine.

Leveson has been editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Books

• Nancy G. Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers. Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-11972-2.

References

1. ^ Nancy Leveson: Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

External links

• List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server.
• Medical Devices - Therac 25

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