The Science & Engineering Research Council is due to get a roasting today from Martyn Thomas, chiarman of Praxis Systems Ltd, Bath, who plans to tell the Safecomp conference on safety-critical computers at Gatwork Airport that the decision by the Council to abandon plans for a new Interdisciplinary Research Centre into safety-critical computing at York University was a major error of judgement which will delay finding solutions to critical problems – These computer systems are vitally important and we need a truly independent research centre to carry out the fundamental research into the best ways to design safety-critical software so that we can show that it is safe to use, he believes.
