Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation

February 2007: Volume 12, Number 1

Special Issue: Computer Programming Languages for Laboratory Automation
Guest Editor: Neil Benn, Cenex BioScience

Table of Contents

• Technical Brief

  Usability in the Lab: Techniques for Creating Usable Products
  By Sarah Barrington

  Using C++ to Write Automation Controller Software
  By Russell Berman

  National Instruments LabVIEW: A Programming Environment for Laboratory Automation and Measurement
  By Richard Hansen, Chance Elliott, Vipin Vijayakumar, Cytokinetics, Inc
  Wesley Zink

  Programming Review of Visual Basic.NET for the Laboratory Automation Industry
  By Robert Harkness, Malcolm Crook and David Povey

  Perl with Tk and C Applied to Product Verification
  By Stephen Lenk and Visteon Van Buren

• Technology Reviews

  An Overview of Real-Time Operating Systems
  By Walter Cedeno and Phillip A Laplante

  Python and Automated Laboratory System Control
  By Mark Russo and Matthew Cahn

• Feature

  Controlling a Robotic Marine Environmental Sampler with the Ruby Scripting Language
  By Brent Roman, Chris Scholin, Scott Jensen, Eugene Massion, Roman Marin III, Christina Preston, Dianne Greenfield and Kevin Wheeler

• Regular Columns

  From the Executive Editor: A Passion for Lab Automation
  By Douglas Gurevitch

  From the Guest Editor: If a Week is a Long Time in Politics…
  By Neil Benn

  From the Executive Director: Food for Thought
  By Greg Dummer

  Automation Highlights from Literature
  By Kerstin Thurow and Hilmar Weinmann

  World News

  Meetings & Events Calendar

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