'Hanging' computers can be life threatening
Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 21:30
in Mathematics & Economics
When your email program or word processor "hangs" it is annoying, you lose messages or have to reboot your computer and start that writing project again if you hadn't saved the text. But, we depending increasingly on computers in almost all walks of life, not least critical systems such as air-traffic control, in which the computer "hanging" can be life threatening.