Working at the Center of the Cyclone - Dr. Richard Cook

Dr. Richard Cook, Research Scientist, The Ohio State University

Ironically, our increasingly automated systems have increased the demand for thoughtful, skilled, and skeptical human experts capable of understanding them and intervening, often under intense pressure and high uncertainty. As the underlying technical entities increase in complexity and importance these pressures, uncertainty, and the stakes of expert decisions also increase. We’ve been studying what these people are doing and how they do it. Their results are exciting, encouraging, and worrisome. Exciting because the studies open a new window into how distributed systems are resilient. Encouraging because the expert work is so sophisticated and purposeful. Worrisome because it is clear that we are not yet building technologies that are team players and the path forward is not clear. What is clear is that understanding the cognitive work of experts is a powerful way of understanding the "system" and grounding our own understanding of where opportunities and vulnerabilities lie.

DOES18 London
DevOps Enterprise Summit

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Greatest respect for the courage to start with Croix Lorraine

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He quotes Ross Ashby and his Good Regulator Theorem. Great. I wondered, why this talk reminded me on cybernetics, even Heinz von Foerster. And then near the end, the Good Regulator Theorem.