Tuesday, October 25, 2005
The Orderly Design of Complex Systems
The key to the orderly design of complex systems, . . . , lies in the decomposition of their function into modules whose behavior can be independently and concisely specified.
--- Ward and Halstead
Teleoperable Human Beings
At supper, we were discussing teleoperation in general, and telesurgery in specific. I came home to find an article discussing how surgery can be used to make human beings teleoperable: Teleoperable Human Beings.
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