In Human Supervisory Control, we began to analyze human error involved system. I pick up the flight accident last Feb. in Buffalo, NY, NTSB report detailed list the entire investigation, including the redone video of cockpit last minute before crash. How did pilots lost situational awareness? It took me quite a while to detach the emotional feelings. Professor Cummings constantly reminds us to look beyond the accident, what display or automation can we do to better position the situation and help pilots to avoid the accident? even in your own life, will you let yourself adjust situation or alter the situation? A lot of time, adapting is easy and much simple way to go. What about reverse this?
Thursday night I tried out the course "Power and Negotiation", one of several courses not in IT(like energy, aerospace, psychology...). Different from undergraduate study, I found that I have more interests to know and learn these, interestingly, they are all interlink with each other, no field boundary.
at user innovation seminar, one of TA is a hacker and totally looks like a hacker. one of his projects was photography. with little bit script, he and other hackers can let $100 canon camera do the same thing what $2200+ canon camera does, just check out CHDK site. It is legal, a total open-source site, which Canon even watch closely, taking some new innovation into its new product without credit the creator. Hacker does not care, who let us know why they spend so much time on those things.
By the end of Friday, Paul Krugman will give a talk at MIT. This is how energetic this place can be. So many things going on, you have a constant battle to figure out which to choose over many great things. A group of world renown economists and your favorite professors will be just like you, standing in the crowd, hoping for a seat!
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