ISE 817: Readings

Military Lessons of the Yom Kippur War: Historical Perspectives

Tue, 23 May 2006 11:31:11 -0400

Dr. Martin van Creveld’s take on the the lessons learned from the Yom Kippur War. From the book jacket: “Surprise aside, Israel’s generals won the Six Days War by superior mobility; six years later,

Rigor Assessment in Engineering Analysis: Columbia

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:10:49 -0400

In the wake of the Columbia accident, this collection looks at rigor in the context of engineering at Nasa with the Final Report of the Return to Flight Task Group, Chapter 6 from the Columbia Acciden

Joint Cognitive Systems: Anomaly Response and Patterns in Work

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:41:41 -0400

Two selections from the new JCS book dealing with surprise and response.

Can We Ever Escape from Data Overload? A Cognitive Systems Diagnosis

Fri, 7 Apr 2006 09:45:14 -0400

Abstract: Data overload is a generic and tremendously difficult problem that has only grown with each new wave of technological capabilities. As a generic and persistent problem, three observations ar

The War of Atonement October, 1973

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:51:57 -0500

Major-General Chaim Herzog’s account of the successes, omissions, and failures of the Yom Kippur War.

Fundamental Surprise

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:31:36 -0500

Read Chapters 3 and 4 in Lanri’s book detailing fundamental surprise as a complex socio cognitive challenge and how the implications of surprise on the Israeli side of the Yom Kippur War (Hebrew: מלחמ