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Chris Johnson on "Degraded Modes Of Operation As Causes In Rail And Air Accidents"
18/09/2007

Who would have thought that our desire to please was indirectly the cause of tragic air and rail accidents? In a presentation in the Namahn library, Professor Chris Johnson, an accident investigator from the computer science department of the University of Glasgow, explained that when technological systems fail to perform properly, the result is a degraded mode of operation.

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