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• Avoiding death by computer

  Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby
  Date/Time: 28/09/2009, 6pm
  Venue: Barnard's Inn Hall

  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 talk reviews a well-documented, but otherwise typical, fatality and shows that many causes could be prevented by better design, and better programming in particular.

  Harold Thimbleby is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Geometry and a Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow at Swansea University.

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