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- Early years to early adulthood – India; British influence
- Education – engineering, math, science
- What I like – nature, people, ideas and possibilities
- Work – teaching, research
consulting, 1970 – 1885; try to keep information and skills current
- Work – Indian restaurant, 1989
- Work – SV, 1990. Do I like it? Love, hate. It’s made me a ‘new’ person;
it’s a great opportunity to learn about human beings and human nature –
intuitively, and formally if one so chooses. Why? Allows me to follow my
real interest.
- 4 Relevance of SV work: experience of the system
- Computer
- 4 Contrary to popular belief I don’t love computers but
computer apps
are great tools
that have made my life simpler
- 4 Experience. Long ago – scientific apps. Recent. Web-design,
programming in
visual basic;
document design; some spreadsheet; some database design but
not an expert
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- Education. Engineering, math, science, scientific computation
- Recent computer experience.
Web-design. Visual Basic programming. Document design
- Exposure. Spreadsheets. Database design
- Sempervirens. Documentation
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- Skills
- Not an expert in database design
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- The next two slides emphasize the need for deliberate and comprehensive
planning
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- Data entry and import
- Viewing
- Printing
- Security
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- Start with global picture of needs
- Early commitment to detail is expensive
- Choice of applications
- - Microsoft Access (database)
- - Microsoft Visual Basic
(interface, security)
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- Stand alone (paper still needed)
- Format identical to paper version (may need to change this)
- Medical necessity (drop down lists)
- Efficiency (repeated data entry eliminated)
- Use as tutorial
- ‘Self-maintaining’
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- I’m still working on this… it is still ‘sketchy’
- It shows the possibilities of MS Access for ‘intelligent’ automation
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- Treatment planning
- Technical needs to
implement minor
- Document system
- Design, experiment,
development
- Software, reference and
physical
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