Review of Lecture Twelve--Software safety
Two cases--Air Traffic Control, Therac-25
What can be done to avoid catastrophes?---------------------------------------------------------------------1. Don't trust software
2. Do everything you can to make the software trustworthyRequirements, design, coding, documentation,3. Investigate problems carefully
software audit trails,
testing, formal analysis, training in use, etc
4. Role of government
5. Role of educational-training institutions
Lecture Thirteen--Telecommuting
Reading:
Working at home today? 2 Nov 00, NY Times, Circuitsfull citations in lecture 12 notes
Telecommuters' Lament, 31 Oct 00, WSJ
1. What is Telecommuting?
2. Why is interest in telecommuting declining?
a. Very popular just a few years ago
b. Advantages
Save commuting time
Save cost of office
Get away from office distractions
c. Problems
Lose control of employees
Not available for spur-of-the-moment stuff
Tele commuter doesn't have support available in office
Distractions at home
d. Relation to previous 131 topics
(1) Importance of community
(2) Differences between face-to-face interaction and
e-mail interaction
(3) Why is distance learning good and
telecommuting bad?
e. Live v. tape
Murray Feldman and his distance learning course
went out of his way to meet with students
in Moscow
ICS exams--doctoral exams, bring in an examiner
from a distant location
UC meetings--do they have to be face-to-face?
Live theatre v movies, television
3. Why is hotelling catching on?
California experiments--environmental impact, Northridge quake
Save commuting time
Save space, bring space to people
Get out of home environment, i.e., conventional telecommuting
Support in "hotel"
More control ??
4. Future???
5. Logistics
Reading for Thursday, 9 Nov 00
Wayne, Leslie. E-mail part of the effort to turn out the voters,
NY Times, 6 Nov 00, C6 (r)
O'Connor, Anne-Marie. The election's all about you , baby,
LA Time, 6 Nov 00, E1, E3 (o)
Find something in Lexis-Nexus
Optional: A.P. Clinic Gives Dot-coms the Lowdown on High Ground,
LA Times, 6 Nov 00, C9
Pamela Samuelson, clinic