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Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

I’ve been following the situation with Boeing’s 737 MAX airliners. I came across an article (archive.is / image) on USA Today that was a pretty good summary. In that article they mentioned that Boeing’s 777 airliner’s flight computers were not only triple redundant but from different manufacturers. For the 777, Boeing’s twin-aisle intercontinental jet, engineers created triple redundancy for…

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Innovation – Wikipedia’s Take

A 2013 survey of literature on innovation found over 40 definitions. In an industrial survey of how the software industry defined innovation, the following definition given by Crossan and Apaydin was considered to be the most complete, which builds on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) manual’s definition:[9] Innovation is: production or adoption,…

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