David D. Woods

In April 2007, David Woods was an invited speaker at IBM’s Almaden Research Institute. The Institute’s theme this year was Navigating Complexity, doing more with less which heralds to one of CSE’s core themes, coping with complexity. Framed by his recent work in resillience engineering, Woods provokes and appeals to many of the prominent researchers in attendence including: Stuart Kauffman, John Doyle, and Don Norman.

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David D. Woods recently presented a Google Tech Talk on “Reducing the Risk of Shallow Information Analysis”

The material covered is based on ongoing research at C/S/E/L regarding assessing the rigor of analysis and information analysis innovation .

In conjunction with the USMA, C/S/E/L presented an intense interactive workshop at NDM8 in Asilomar California relating the challenges of distributed team cognition in intellgience analysis. The website with pictures chronicling the workshop and research is available by clicking below.

This parody video based on David Woods’ appearance on Japanese television was set to be played at the 50th Anniversary of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s Past Presidents Address.