Wednesday 21 May 1997 Meeting

Wednesday 21 May 1997 Meeting

[Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.]

From: Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
Chair San Diego ACM SigAda

To: San Diego ACM SigAda Members and Other Interested Parties

Date: 27 April, 1997

Announcement: San Diego ACM SigAda Meeting (21 May 1997)

Speaker :  Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
Subject 1: Money and Ada 95
Subject 2: Officer Elections will be Held.

Date: Wednesday 21 May 1997

Time: 6:30 PM Pizza ($5.00) and a chance to network and meet the experts.

Lecture Starts promptly at 7:00 PM

Duration: About 40 Minutes; followed by election of officers

Place: Aonix  was Thomson (Note new address below)

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Subject 1 Abstract: Bob  Leif will speak on an article in the May 1997
Object Magazine that he coauthored with Tom Moran and Randy Brukardt, "Ada
95 The Language Speaks for Itself".  He will extend the subject matter of
the article describing his preliminary steps in object oriented financial
programming.  An example of the use of decimal types to represent money
will be given.  The problem of integrating generics with tagged types will
be discussed.  The new GRASP Editor will be demonstrated.

Subject 2: The talk will be followed by an election of officers.  At
present SigAda has two candidates:

Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. for Chair
Lyn Henderson for Vice Chair

We need candidates for Treasurer and Secretary.  It should be emphasized
that any member of San Diego SigAda is eligible to run for any of the four
offices.

The duties of the officers are as follows:
The Chair obtains the speakers, runs the meetings, sends out the e-mail
meeting notices, interfaces with national SigAda and ACM, and brings the
Pizza or equivalent.

The Vice Chair replaces the Chair when he or she is absent and is
responsible for securing the meeting room.

The Secretary helps the rest of the officers with the paper work and mails
the meeting notices to members who specifically request them.

The Treasurer is responsible for collecting the dues and dispersing money
for the expenses.

The membership can modify the duties of the officers.  Anyone can suggest a
speaker and coordinate obtaining the speaker, providing the speaker is
acceptable to the officers.  The officers have been and will be reasonable
in this regard.  In fact, in the last three years, we never turned a
volunteer down.

This is your Ada group.  One of the best ways to avoid a professional life
programming in C or one of its dialects is to join and help with SigAda.
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Speaker Brief Biography:
Dr. Robert Leif, is Vice President and Chief Scientist of Nerwport
Instruments and its subsidiary, Ada_Med.  He received his BS in
Biochemistry from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from
the California Institute of Technology.  He has been Corporate Fellow and
Manager of Advanced Concepts at Coulter Corp., Professor of biomedical
engineering at the University of Miami, Chief Scientist of the Center for
Health Technology for the State of Florida, an Associate Editor of
Cytometry and presently is one of the Editors of Analytical and
Quantitative Cytology and Histology.  He is a member of the AdaSAGE
Engineering and Management Group.

He founded and chairs the annual SPIE Conference on Advanced Techniques in
Analytical Cytology.  Dr. Leif has seven issued patents, has published 68
papers, 5 short communications, 2 books, and 89 abstracts, and has
presented many invited talks.  His Ada work includes: being the first to
suggest the use of Ada for medical devices, employing Ada for three
dimensional cluster analysis, instigating and supporting the development of
one of the first clinical instruments in Ada, and directing the development
of an instrument quality monitoring system based on AdaSAGE.  His other
technical accomplishments include: developing the multiparameter
transducers employed in the present automated Coulter white cell
differential analyzers, 5BrdU antibodies to measure DNA synthesis,
preparation of wet fixed cell monolayers for cancer cytology, and being the
co-inventor of rare earth chelates as luminescent tags including a new
macrocycle (U.S. Patent No. 5,373,093).

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Please RSVP Robert C. Leif,  if you wish to join the preprogram pizza meal
($5.00 per person).

RSVP Tel. & Fax  Robert C. Leif (San Diego ACM SIGAda Vice Chair)
(619) 582-0437 (Voice and FAX), e-mail rleif@rleif.com (Robert C. Leif,
Ph.D.).  Please include the number of individuals desiring pizza, any
special requirements,  your name, telephone number and/or e-mail number when
responding by telephone, Fax, or E-mail. Please Include the Words Pizza or
SigAda in the Subject line of your e-mail.

Directions:
Directions to Aonix (was Thomson):
1. Take 805 to Governor Drive exit.
2. From Governor Drive, make left at first light, to Greenwich Drive.
3. Take first right, to Shoreham Place.
4. Proceed to cul-de-sac - 5040 Shoreham Place.
5040 Shoreham Place San Diego, CA 92122

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PLEASE NOTE New E-Mail Address: rleif@rleif.com

If you are not on this distribution and wish to receive these announcements,
please send your e-mail address to rleif@rleif.com

If you are on this distribution and do not wish to continue to receive these
announcements, please notify Robert Leif at rleif@rleif.com. Inclusion of
your e-mail address will facilitate its removal from the SigAda mailing list.
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Robert C. Leif, Ph.D., PMIAC,
Vice President & Research Director
Newport Instruments
Tel. & Fax (619) 582-0437