Programmer

CCHRINT Announces FDA Reported Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine

...adily accessible, it failed in that duty to the public. It took a computer programmer over 1,000 hours to decipher four years' worth of data to make this information available. The programmer identified the main psychiatric drugs in the AERS, wading through quarterly...

Early stimulus funding supports research in adolescent addiction

...e, an NIH agency, will create or help create three new full-time positions. This funding will also help save five full-time jobs, including a computer programmer and project assessment coordinator. Some of those positions would have been changed to part-time status. Miranda himself will be able to continue this...

Mother and Son Provide Products to Ease Side-Effects of Cancer Treatments

...ngle place where cancer patients could purchase products from the comfort of their home to alleviate treatment side-effects. Peyton Maddox, a computer programmer by trade, joined her in that quest. MaddoxOncology.com is the result of their efforts. "Our family has experienced cancer first hand," he sa...

2009 Pizzigati Prize for Public Interest Computing Awarded to Darius Jazayeri

...picked up by the pediatric program and to get them on life-saving treatment." Another hospital in Haiti downloaded OpenMRS from the Web and, without a programmer on staff, configured the system for local use and now has entered over 600,000 patient records. "Little of this would have been possible," Jazay...

Highmark Employee Volunteers Receive $7,000 in Grants to Support Local Nonprofits

...e fourth quarter of 2008. Organization Volunteer and Activity County The Salvation Timothy Yee, systems programmer II, is a Allegheny Army music instruction volunteer who conducts a band, teaches music theory and gives ...

Marshfield Clinic Selects SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM) Solutions to Improve Patient Treatment and Clinic Management

...hindered, as routine ad-hoc report development fell to the BI team. "Our BI team did wonders with the tools they were provided, but our supply of programmer analyst resources fell far short of the demand," said Kate Konitzer, Analytics manager, Marshfield Clinic. With solutions from the SAP BusinessOb...

America Hears Introduces New and Improved Hearing-Aid Programming Software

...ffice Software, customers will receive the Freedom programmer and cables used to connect the user's hearing aids...er, which connects to the hearing aids through the programmer box and cables. Users of the software are prompte...f digital hearing aids. Previously, the software, programmer and cables were included with the purchase of Amer...

Business Leader, Nonprofit Volunteer to Head the American Red Cross

... magazine as one of the most powerful and influential women in corporate America. She spent 24 years (1974-1998) at AT&T where she began as a computer programmer and rose through the ranks to the second largest job in AT&T, Executive Vice President of the Consumer Markets Division. In that position, she had dir...

iPods and similar devices found not to affect pacemaker function

...ered with telemetry, or communications between the programmer and the pacemaker or ICD itself. (The programmer is a computerized device used by physicians to che...m conclude. If the iPod is right in the field, the programmer might not be able to communicate with the pacemake...

IPods Don't Interfere With Pacemakers, Study Shows

...t of patients, the music players interfered with communications between the programmer and the pacemaker or ICD. The programmer is a computerized device used by doctors to check and recalibrate the heart...

Programmer in Medical Technology

Monitoring Patient Glucose Levels: New Advances in software make it easier

...ns on Windows, and takes client data and analyzes them to discover patterns and trends. Clinipro was software originally designed by a software programmer with diabetes to help communication with his physician. He created a telemedicine component that would allow him to send the glucose readings to his p...

Programmer in Medical Products

Rapid Programmer 3.0 Neurostimulation Programming Platform

Description: The Rapid Programmer 3.0 is the smallest and lightest-weight clinician programming platform in the industry. It enables clinicians to quickly and efficiently test patients intraoperatively and to create programs for them postoperatively....
Company:Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.

Model 3510 Programmer

Description: St. Jude Medical's universal programmer platform, the Model 3510 programming system, is used in combination with St. Jude Medical® bradycardia and tachycardia devices, including products for emerging indications. Features a large, color display on a touch-sensitive, active matrix LCD screen Pr...
Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Programmer System (Enterra™ Therapy)

Description:... The programmer for the ITREL 3 system consists of the Model 7432 physician programmer and the Model 7457 MemoryMod Software Cartridge. Enterra™ Therapy...
Company:Medtronic Gastroenterology

LATITUDE® Patient Management System

Features:...sets a new standard for heart failure management with the introduction of LATITUDE Active Monitoring. ZOOM LATITUDE Programmer: The wireless programmer is designed to save physicians time with data collection and programming speeds that are three times faster than Guidants previous programmer. It al...
Company:Guidant Corporation

Verity Adx Pacemaker

Features:... Auto Mode Switch (AMS) Ventricular Rate Control Auto Rest Rate FastPath programmer Software Automatic P & R Wave Measurements Expanded Hysteresis Onscreen Help Previous Test Results Remaining Longevity Estimate ...
Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Integrity® Adx Pacemaker

Features:... Atrial Therapy Advanced Hysteresis Response Automatic P & R Wave Measurements Omnisense® Accelerometer Sensor Auto Rest Rate FastPath™ programmer Software Onscreen Help Previous Test Results Remaining Longevity Estimate ...
Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

Identity® Adx Pacemaker

Features:...dvanced Hysteresis Response Automatic P & R Wave Measurements Omnisense® Accelerometer Sensor Auto Rest Rate Cross Sensor AMS FastPath™ programmer Software Onscreen Help Previous Test Results Remaining Longevity Estimate ...
Company:St. Jude Medical, Inc.

ALTO2 DR, Dual Chamber ICD

Features:...) One VF Detection Zone ATP Accelerometer based rate response Mode Switching 25 episode Holter EGM Easy to use Orchestra programmer with Follow-up Assistant to speed routine follow-ups ...
Company:ELA Medical, Inc.

ALTO2 VR

Features:...ection (Slow VT and VT) One VF Detection Zone ATP Accelerometer based rate response 25 episode Holter EGM Easy to use Orchestra programmer with Follow-up Assistant to speed routine follow-ups ...
Company:ELA Medical, Inc.

Programmer in Biological News

Tropical forest carbon monitoring gets big boost

... Borneo and have made it increasingly user friendly with a newer CLASLite system, designed for a desktop environment. David Knapp, a senior scientific programmer in Asner's group, has been a key figure in the CLASLite development, noting that " we have learned through the training of new users of CLASLite that...

Private 'Rocketeers' reach for space -- science writer in Canada to explain

...making flights, the failures and fatalities, as well as the enduring passion and dreams of the real estate tycoons, dot-com billionaires, a video game programmer and other business mavericks for whom the sky is no longer the limit. They are fueling the highest-flying private rockets ever built, testing vertical...

Photo-monitoring whale sharks

...side each whale shark and photographing or video-taping the white lines and spots along the flanks of the animal. Norman teamed up with U.S. computer programmer Jason Holmberg (ECOCEAN, Portland, Oregon) and astronomer Zaven Arzoumanian (USRA/NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland) who adapted software originally used with...

Darwin's famous finches and Venter's marine microbes

...hich is probably an order of magnitude or two more than anybody has ever done before." Manning and co-author Yufeng Zhai, Ph.D., a bioinformatics programmer in the Razavi Newman Center for Bioinformatics at the Salk, could only accomplish this rather gargantuan task with the help of Time Logic, a company i...

Virginia Tech's System X supercomputer provides super tool for simulation of cell division

...nd John J. Tyson. Panning, who is from Tulsa, Okla., received his master of science in computer science in May 2006 and is currently working as a programmer in Germantown, Md. Watson, of Blacksburg, is professor of computer science in the College of Engineering and professor of mathematics in the College o...

Beyond the book: Software automates access to brain atlases

...g NeuART as a part of a larger development effort he was working in, concerned with knowledge management of the neuroscience literature. Burns asked programmer Wei-Cheng Cheng to develop a prototype under the guidance of Swanson and Thompson guidance. Cheng wound up rebuilding NeuART from the ground up, sai...

'Computer-chemistry' yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division

...lecular combinations to about 1,000 possibilities, which Rudolph called both "encouraging" and "discouraging." Edelsbrunner's group, which included programmer Paul Brown, then began narrowing that search further. They did so by using a different software program that could identify the highest and lowest pla...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...Phytome are Dr. Stefanie Hartmann, a postdoctoral researcher in biology; Dihui Lu, a graduate student in information and library science; and computer programmer Jason Phillips. The National Science Foundation is supporting the project with a five-year, $1 million grant it awarded to UNC in 2002. "This is...

Programmer in Biological Technology

Boston Scientific to Donate Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices to Heartbeat International for Implantation in Needy Patients

...y who otherwise could not afford these advanced therapies." In addition to donating devices, Boston Scientific will provide device programmers, programmer software and software updates, and implant accessories to Heartbeat International to support device implant and follow-up care. About Boston ...

Convey Computer™ Corporation Launches World's First Hybrid-Core Computer at SC08 Conference

...etween the coprocessor and the x86 provide the tight integration that allows the system to be programmed as a single architecture. This means that the programmer does not need to manage the physical memory on the coprocessor nor explicitly move data back and forth between the x86 main memory and the coprocessor...

SGI Breakthrough Technology Empowers Genome Center Research Around the World

...chines, we have used MPI parallel programming libraries and Intel's icc compiler to parallelize and optimize code, respectively," said TGen Scientific programmer Waibhav Tembe, Ph.D., who has been actively involved in developing and benchmarking several tools on the SGI Altix systems. "Benchmarks run on Melanom...

Interview: Billpoint Founder Jason May on eBay, Open Source

... The Midwest will certainly be a part of that. eP: Why did you choose Perl as the programming language for Billpoint? JM: I've been a Perl programmer and great fan since 1991. When we founded Billpoint, money was tight and speed to market was essential. No other programming language could have allow...

Flawed Routers Flood UW Server

...found in NetGear routers will cause significant IT problems for UW-Madison for years to come. This details were revealed by David Plonka, a systems programmer with the University of Wisconsin, on August 21 at a meeting of the Madison Area Systems Administrators Guild (Mad- SAGE) as well as on a posting on ...

Its All Fun And Games in Madison - Raven Software Celebrates 15 Anniversary

... dream come true for its founders. Brian and Steve Raffel, brothers who had backgrounds in art, decided to chuck it all one day, collaborate with a programmer and develop a game. They sent their demo to ten publishers, Brian Raffel said. They all said Well get back to you in two or three months. We get these...

Outsourcing Offshore - Wisconsin Companies Sending Work Abroad

...tween U.S. white collar workers and those in India is immense. Software programmer U.S.: $66,100 India: $10,000 IT Manager U.S: $55,000 India: $8,500 ...parts earn. For instance, an article in TIME magazine states an American programmer receives $66,100 and an Indian one gets $10,000. In an era when companies a...

Schneider Vice President Honored as Top IT Leader by Computerworld

...ng Schneider National in 1999, Grawien held various systems development and development management positions at IBM. Previously, he was an application programmer for the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. Grawien graduated from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse with a degree in Computer Science. He lives in...

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

...graduates, reporters, politicians -- hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice! An experienced programmer would be more likely to think is that all? The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software." Graham defends the unequal distrib...

Proactive nightmares

...hat was the requirement that led to the bit of intelligence that equated a missed maintenance schedule with the need to shut down the system? And what programmer was so successful in capturing the bureaucratic imperative to follow procedure regardless of the real-world impact? Did anybody test that particula...