The engineering profession needs to do more to explain to the public how its work is related to science and the part played by ‘unknown unknowns’. Risk is in the news more than ever at the moment. Our collective behaviour depends on understanding it, but public debate reveals confusion that I believe needs to be … Read more
However careful manufacturers and drivers are, autonomous vehicles will inevitably be involved in accidents. A rigorous approach to the design of their system architectures can help establish clarity around questions of legal liability. We all know that connected and autonomous cars are coming. The level of autonomy is increasing, even if we don’t know when … Read more
Months ago, when the UK was in the midst of a nationwide lockdown brought on by the outbreak of Covid-19, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the release of an NHSX contact-tracing app that would be at the heart of the Government’s strategy to ease restrictions. Although the app was touted for a mid-May release, after … Read more
Installing GCC on CentOS 7, is really an easy task and it shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes. 1. Update the server First of all log in to your CentOS 7 VPS via SSH as user root ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number and make sure that all installed packages on the server are up to date … Read more