Friday, April 13, 2007

"Faulty software" or "human error"?


Note an interesting contrast in reporting. Both stories report on the failure in 2006 of the Mars Global Surveyor, but the first (SPACE.com) says that faulty software doomed Mars spacecraft; while the second (CNN.com) reports that "...human error triggered a cascade of events" leading to its loss.

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