LOCATION AND DATE: Talaris (nee Aljoya) Conference Center, Seattle, Washington, June 8-12, 2009
TEXTS: (1) N.G. Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers, Addison-Wesley, 1995 and (2) draft of my new book (to be published this year).
DESCRIPTION: We are building systems today with increasing levels of complexity that are overwhelming standard approaches to ensuring safety. The causes of accidents are even changing. This class will cover fundamental concepts and techniques in building and ensuring safety, with particular emphasis on those aspects of complex systems not handled well by traditional system safety approaches, such as software and human-computer interaction. While traditional system safety will be covered, new and unique approaches to hazard analysis, root cause analysis, and risk management will be covered including the instructor's new STAMP model and the tools (such as new hazard and accident analysis methods) built on it. Emphasis will be on procedures and techniques that are practical enough to be applied to projects today. Real project experiences with these techniques in different application areas will be described and recent software-related accidents will be reviewed and analyzed. The goal of this class is not to learn how to satisfy a particular safety standard (although all the approaches taught will satisfy MIL-STD-882), but rather to gain enough deep understanding of the problem to be able to design a tailored program that will be most effective for your project. The class size will be limited to encourage interaction. Students will work on example problems in small groups.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Leveson is a Professor in the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Dept. and in the MIT Engineering Systems Division and is head of the MIT Complex Systems Research Lab (CSRL). Previously, she was Boeing Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Leveson is a founder of the field of software safety and has worked in this area since 1980. Before becoming a professor, she was a system engineer for IBM. Dr. Leveson consults widely on safety-critical systems for both government and industry and has worked with aerospace, nuclear power, energy and petroleum, transportation, aircraft, and medical systems. In 1995, Dr. Leveson was awarded the AIAA Information Systems Award for ``developing the field of software safety and system engineering practices where life and property are at stake.'' She received the 1999 ACM Allen Newell Award for "pioneering work in establishing the foundations of software safety," and the 2004 ACM Outstanding Software Research Award. In 1999, Dr. Leveson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
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Cost: $3250, which includes a copy of the textbook; continental breakfast, break snacks, and a full lunch each day; lecture notes; and handouts. Early registration will ensure a place in the class (which will be limited to a maximum of 40). Checks or purchase orders should be made out to Safeware Engineering Corporation and sent to 1500 Fairview Ave. E, Suite 205, Seattle, WA 98102-3748. Janet Bogar at Safeware Engineering Corp. will be handling logistics and can be contacted at bogar@safeware-eng.com or 206-328-4880.
Location: The class will be held at the
The conference center has 30 rooms but you need to book early as they tend to fill up (lodging is not included in the class fee). The rooms are basic but well equipped (including internet access) and the conference center grounds are beautiful. Otherwise, there are several hotels in the area and parking at Talaris. Some nearby hotels you might try (in my personal order of ranking with nicest first):
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Please email to leveson@sunnyday.mit.edu and to bogar@safeware-eng.com.
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