Murder by Computer

Craplex Cockpit Computers 8 -- Unsafe At Any Speed

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

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British FAA: Cockpit Computers Unfit For Human Consumption 2 Hal beats Dave at chess ...

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Software Snakes On Planes 3 -- The Phone Interview

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

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Homer Simpson Autothrottles A phone conversation between literary agent Sam Fleishma...

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HAL -- The Cockpit Serial Killer

John T. Halliday | Posted 05.25.2011

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John T. Halliday

Let's shift the balance of power in the cockpit back to humans. As MIT's R. John Hansman explains, "Less is more." Dumb cockpit computers down; let pilots be pilots

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