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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada in medical devices
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On 6/21/2012 11:04 PM, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>> btw, I remember there was a person on this news group in the 90's who
>> was very big into Ada being in medical devices who used to post here
>> alot. I think he owned a small company that did some work for Ada
>> and medical devices, I forgot his name. I remember he was a PhD person
>> and from California/San Diego I think. That is all. He would have
>> been interested in this subject.
>
> Robert C. Leif, Newport Instruments.  Hasn't posted in comp.lang.ada
> for some time now, but Google shows a 2007 paper on using XML to
> medical interface instrumentation.
>

Thanks, yes that is him. He once mailed me lots of reports and papers
on Ada/medical devices. I think I still have them somewhere.  

Here is a paper for him on Ada in medical software

On is page below you'll find link to paper called

"Ada in Embedded Boards for Scientific and Medical Instruments"

http://www.newportinstruments.com/ada_med/ada_med.htm

good to see he is still around.

--Nasser