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DESCRIPTION:A recording of this meeting has been saved at https://youtu.be/
 FslTMXLd8_M. For a pdf copy of the presentation with the presenter's notes
  and Reading List\, please see the link under the Media heading at the bot
 tom of this announcement.\n\nDespite decades of methodological advances an
 d trillions of dollars in global investment\, IT system developments\, ope
 rations and modernizations continue to fail at remarkably consistent rates
 . This talk argues that these failures are not primarily technical\, but s
 ystemic\, arising from a persistent neglect of human-centered engineering.
  Risk increases as software systems grow in complexity. Humans lose insigh
 t into their operation\, their ability to control them decreases\, as does
  the time to react relative to system behavior. Automation\, while reducin
 g routine workload\, often exacerbates this problem by magnifying rare\, b
 ut high-consequence failures. AI will exacerbate the inherent automation p
 aradox problem in novel ways. The presentation calls for an honest\, profe
 ssional reassessment of how we design\, evaluate\, and govern IT systems
 —treating human cognitive limits as priority engineering constraints rat
 her than afterthoughts.\n\nSpeaker(s): Robert N. Charette\n\nVirtual: http
 s://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/531602
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/531602
ORGANIZER:malar.kondappan@ieee.org
SEQUENCE:1401
SUMMARY: Trillions Spent\, Still Failing: Why IT Needs Human-Centered Think
 ing
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/531602
X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>A recording of this meeting has be
 en saved at <a href="https://youtu.be/FslTMXLd8_M">https://youtu.be/FslTMX
 Ld8_M</a>. For a pdf copy of the presentation with the presenter's notes a
 nd Reading List\, please see the link under the Media heading at the botto
 m of this announcement.</strong></p>\n<p>Despite decades of methodological
  advances and trillions of dollars in global investment\, IT system develo
 pments\, operations and modernizations continue to fail at remarkably cons
 istent rates. This talk argues that these failures are not primarily techn
 ical\, but systemic\, arising from a persistent neglect of human-centered 
 engineering. Risk increases as software systems grow in complexity. Humans
  lose insight into their operation\, their ability to control them decreas
 es\, as does the time to react relative to system behavior. Automation\, w
 hile reducing routine workload\, often exacerbates this problem by magnify
 ing rare\, but high-consequence failures. AI will exacerbate the inherent 
 automation paradox problem in novel ways. The presentation calls for an ho
 nest\, professional reassessment of how we design\, evaluate\, and govern 
 IT systems&mdash\;treating human cognitive limits as priority engineering 
 constraints rather than afterthoughts.</p>
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