The article examines the issue of unemployment, which affects quality life in all countries, regardless their level development. In some many people have to earn a living through long hours hard and tiring physical work, perhaps even dangerous poorly paid work. Until recently, other countries were sure that once they joined large company or state-owned enterprise, would job until retirement. To...

It is a great honor for me to present this Opening Lecture at the World Reliability Forum. I was a young man when I jumped in the white water of a vivid stream of reliability theory and application creek. Late 50-s and early 60-s were really the time of reliability “Renaissance”. Since then reliability has been developed to a powerful applied mathematical discipline, with both, theoretical and ...