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Boeing's (Bae) Denver Airport Baggage System, a Notorious Project Failure [pdf]
- anonymousiam 7y agoDr. Dobb's did a nice article on this at the time. (If memory serves, it was sometime in the mid 1990's.) The one fact that has stuck in my mind all of these years is when they were troubleshooting the failed system, they decided to do a simulation of it. The simulation showed clearly that the system could not work as designed. Think of the money they could have saved if they had done the simulation early enough to validate (or invalidate) the design...
- sogen 7y agocool, just found it: https://www.drdobbs.com/database/simulating-the-denver-airport-automated/184410112 https://www.drdobbs.com/database/simulating-the-denver-airpo... from 1997!