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This programme looks at engineering disasters that have occurred because of poor design, specification and implication. The programme goes on to investigate whether anything can be done to prevent ...software engineering failures.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: M205, Fundamentals of computing
Item code: M205; 17
First transmission date: 23-03-1994
Published: 1994
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Duration: 00:24:02
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Producer: Pip Surgery
Contributor: Gordon Davis
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): `Fly-by-wire'; `Iron Bird'; Airbus Industrie; AT & T telephone system; Engineering disasters; Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster; London Ambulance Service computerisation; Magellan spacecraft mapping Venus; Software engineering
Subject terms: Engineering design; System failures (Engineering)
Master spool number: DOU7766
Production number: FOUM435Y
Videofinder number: 4852
Available to public: no