OT: Planes, Space Crafts and Computer Science

[Walter Bright]

Manfred_Nowak wrote:
> Since last month the new field of "ultra high reliability" is teached at a 
> university in germany:
> http://www.presse.uni-
> wuerzburg.de/einblick_archiv/archiv2010/einblick1037/montenegro0/
> 
> -manfred

It's about time. The techniques are well-known, but since they are not taught 
and are not obvious, engineers often have severely mistaken notions about how to 
achieve reliability, and have to learn the hard way.