Engineering or Craft
This article has been in production for some time. It was going to be so simple: chat to two of the leading pundits on system safety and pull together a quick piece of “compare and contrast.” Just to add to the timeliness, there has been a very genteel firefight over the role of the IEC 61508 standard on the leading system safety newsgroup (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/hise/sc_list.php), and, sadly, Air France flight 447 has disappeared, leading … Read More → "Engineering or Craft"