The Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) is a distributed British organisation concerned with

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, including safety-critical issues. It consists of two sister organisations based at

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...

, UK. and City, University of London,

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. Up until August 2016 the centre ran the

Safety-Critical Systems Club The Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC) is a professional association in the United Kingdom. It aims to share knowledge about safety-critical systems, including current and emerging practices in safety engineering, software engineering, and p ...

(SCSC) and the Software Reliability & Metrics Club. Since August 2016 the Safety-Critical Systems Club has been run by the department of Computer Science at the

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. The Club runs a number of events each year including the annual Safety-Critical Systems Symposium (SSS). CSR was founded in 1984 and has received UK and international research funding. CSR members: * Prof.

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References

External links

CSR Newcastle University website

CSR City, University of London website
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