# Avoiding death by computer

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Computer science
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/avoiding-death-computer)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Avoiding death by computer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/avoiding-death-computer/e1ac3e867cb2) (YouTube)