User talk:Evandegr

Hi, welcome to Artificial Pancreas Algorithm Project! Thanks for your edit to the Talk:Artificial Pancreas Algorithm Project page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- KyleH (Talk) 07:01, 5 May 2009

Hi Evan!
Hi Evan,

I was very glad to get a message from you. You are the first, ever, to leave a message here on the AP website. I was frankly starting to wonder if anyone was reading this information at all. I would be very happy to have you as an active contributer, both as a person with diabetes T1 knowledge and experience, as well as a techie. Do you pump? What year are you in your study?

If you are interested, you might start by writing an essay that is intended to be published here. Specifically I'd like to know what are the worst aspects of having T1 for you personally, and how would an artificial pancreas contribute to easing those worst things? You can create an article anytime by clicking on the "a patients story" and writing something, or cutting and pasting from another source if you prefer to write in MS Word and finish and spell check and so forth.

Probably as a student of computer science now, you are learning object oriented design. This is a little different, and is considered obselete by many designers of open systems: words like "embedded controls" and "real time systems" describe our approach here, where robustness and safety and automatic recovery are far more important than open standards and open objects/ data classes. The tools we use are similar, but perhaps a bit dated. You may enjoy working here as more of a software engineer and less of a computer programmer. Might be fun.

I am not a medical researcher, just a systems engineer with a lot of insulin pumping experience and I'm well read in D research. I believe I see so much of the AP research going in the wrong direction, and want to provide a very real and needed data point back to that medical non-engineering community to help their focus with the technology.

I like to think there are some of the researchers read this information here, and will not post or contribute because they do not want a conflict with their origional reseach versus the public domain. That is one of the things wrong. I just know that in 2 years, you are the first even to say hello.

I welcome you here and hope to hear more from you. Mbbradford 18:49, 6 May 2009 (UTC)