Continuing Education Course / IEEE Baltimore Section
Title: Old Scripting languages still Useful: A demonstration of AWK and
Perl.
Speaker: Bob
Webber
Date: Dec 10, 2011
Location: National Electronics Museum (NEM)
Bio:
Bob Webber, Senior Member IEEE, read Physics at Oxford University, England for a BA degree. After a brief career in Defense and Space electronics, he gained an MSc in Medical Electronics and Physics followed by a PhD in BioPhysics. For the past 24 years he has been IT manage for the computers systems used to monitor Patients with Epilepsy at Johns Hopkins Hospital. These systems record EEG Brainwaves, Video and Sound from patients 24/7. He has used Perl and AWK scripts to build an internal website to manage the archiving and transmission of EEG reports to the central Hospital systems.
Abstract:
Perl and AWK are related scripting languages that have been around for over 20 years. The author has found them useful for creating background processes for managing EEG reports and work flow. They have also been found useful for processing text data for research studies of various sorts for the EEG group at JHH. Although these languages might be considered small in that they don't have a GUI, they are available in all the main computing environments having come from the Unix world. They are still useful, readily available and simple to use for various text processing tasks. In addition Perl has many extensions for connection to databases and is still used on many Web Serves as one option for Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts. This talk is intended to show the application of AWK and Perl to people who might be interested in programming simple tasks involving text files but don't have the time to deal with the overhead of C/C++ or Java.
Register by sending an email to Boris Gramatikov (bgramat@jhmi.edu), director for Educational Activities and Continuing EE Education, Baltimore Section, IEEE. Please include your IEEE member number, as well as your work affiliation. This course will be eligible for CEU credits from the IEEE. For more information, please visit:
https://ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/continuing_education/CEEE.htm