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When Technology Fails

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Eventually, technology fails in one way or another. Computer hard drives crash, your cell phone battery dies, even spell checkers fail to find all the mistakes we make. But what happens when a computer hard drive with patient data crashes at the hospital? Or, what if the computer used in your car starts to go? On this episode of "Tech Talk," we'll discuss technology failures and what you can do to minimize the damage when some of your own devices fail.

Guests

Mats Heimdahl

Mats Heimdahl

Mats earned an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden and a Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. He is currently the Director of the University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center, and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is the recipient of the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, the McKnight Presidential Fellow award, and the Outstanding Contributions to Post-Baccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education award, all at the University of Minnesota. He is also the recipient of the NSF CAREER award.

Jim Hall

Jim Hall

Jim is the manager of Central Computing Systems Administration, part of the Office of Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. Jim's team manages the systems that run the University of Minnesota, including the University's student records system, registration systems, and central web servers. Jim has been involved in managing large IT systems since 1995, and before coming to the U of M had helped manage geographic information systems, document and information management systems.

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