William Siler

Computers in Life Science Research - FASEB Monographs William Siler Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974 edition

Publisher Marketing: 45 certainty about Federal policy concern- the University of Alabama cardiac in- ing the support of training contribute tensive care monitoring system on ob- to these difficulties. The problems are solete 1800 computers. Another re- too broad and too complex to address sponded most efficaciously pointing out here. They are difficult for both aca- that it is too bad that people lose sight of demia and government, and warrant the fact that a system on which a pro- the active concern of the entire research gram is developed will always be able community. to do the job; change is not indicated Dr. Robert Macey introduced to the until the system ceases to be appropri- ate. conference the exciting world of model development describing an application In another vein, the question opens to the area of membrane transport. The up a wide range of problems that can be discussion of his paper exposed the prob- summarized as problems in the diffusion lern the modeler has of gaining ac- of computer-based technology. At this ceptance of his particular approach, but juncture biomedical computing joins all mainly it provided a taste of the intellec- the rest of biomedicine. The problems of tual excitement that modeling generates diffusion of advances in health research, among both doers and observers.

Contributor Bio:  Siler, William WILLIAM SILER, of Southern Dynamic Systems, Inc., is a former academician, having served as chairman of the Biomedical Computer Science program at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and as professor and chairman of the Biomathematics Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For the past forty years, he has been developing scientific software tools for general use. He is now Senior Scientist at the Kemp-Carraway Heart Institute at Birmingham, Alabama. JAMES J. BUCKLEY is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. A prominent researcher in fuzzy mathematics, he has published over 200 papers and several books on the topic.