Dr. Richard I. Cook (May 3, 1953 – August 31, 2022)[1] was a system safety researcher, physician, anesthesiologist, university professor, and software engineer.
Cook graduated Cum Laude from Lawrence University in 1975 from a customized program that included physics and urban planning.
[3] From 2015 to 2020, Cook worked as a research scientist at the Ohio State University in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering.
In the final published report, he wrote a dissent where he argued that health IT software should be regulated as a class III medical device.
Interventions in the wake of accidents lead to a cycle of error, where they increase the complexity of the system and create the potential for new failure modes.
[15] Cook (along with David Woods and John McDonald) introduced the term going sour to refer to incidents where there is a slow degradation of system performance over time.
Cook (along with Jens Rasmussen) introduced the term going solid to describe a significant shift in systems operations when a form of capacity becomes exhausted.
The Future of above-the-line Tooling, SRECon Americas 2022 A Few Observations on the Marvelous Resilience of Bone & Resilience Engineering, REdeploy Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2019 Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems, O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, New York, NA, 2013 How Complex Systems Fail, O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance And Operations Conference, Santa Clara, CA, 2012 Lectures on the study of cognitive work, The Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden, 2012