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Avoiding death by computer

Professor Harold Thimbleby · Gresham College

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About

One of the reasons why people make mistakes is that the systems they use are badly designed, and this is perhaps nowhere more alarming than in hospital errors involving drug delivery systems. This lecture reviews a well-documented, but otherwise typical, fatality and shows that many causes could be prevented by better design, and better programming in particular.

The talk

  1. Avoiding death by computer 2009-09-28 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Harold Thimbleby
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Computer science
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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