Paul Antony Bristow
Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal,
Cumbria LA8 8AB UK
Phone & SMS UK 01539 561830 or International +44 1539 561830 Mobile
07714 330204
mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com
hetp index page
Biographical
Born 1941. Studied in UK at University College London, Essex
University, Bristol University.
Worked at ICI (later Zeneca and now AstraZeneca).
Founded and runs a small company called hetp
to
supply components for chemical analysis mainly using chromatography
from 1976.
Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD, CChem, CSci, FRSC.
Publications
Computing
I have fumbled with FORTRAN, advanced with Algol, played with PL/1,
bodged with BASIC,
passed Pascal by, adored ADA, relished really reliable RTL/2, cursed C,
and am coping curmudgeonly with C++.
Tired of paper tape (especially punching the odd extra hole to alter
BEQ to BGE), and don't mourn the passing of the ASR33 teletype.
Built real-time PDP11 and 68000 single-board embedded real-time systems
using
RTL/2 - with only a handful of lines of assembler, including the whole
OS!.
Trying to produce software to handle uncertain values from physical
(and other) measurements, and to use this to estimate the uncertainty
of
analytical results, especially from chromatography where conventional
integration gives few clues as to the usefulness of the estimated
areas of peaks.
Interests Now
Analytical chemistry - especially chromatography, chemometrics.
Strong supporter of Boost - open
source, high quality,
free C++ software.
Supporter of improvements to C++ through the ISO WG21 Standards
process, J16/04-0108.
Working on quantitation of chromatography, including estimation of
uncertainty.
About
Has two children, my son Huw
inherited, or was infected with, the computing bug at an early age, but
my
daughter Anna
has
escaped to grow up normally computer competent.
Enjoys coffee, music, cycling, walking unhill and down dale, preferably
without
rain and
snow (but all-too-often with) in the English Lake District and in
Scotland, and worldwide.
Favourite Quote
"It ain't what a man doesn't know that makes him a fool, but what he
does know that ain't so."
Josh Billings, Complete work of JB (1919).
This page, Paul
A
Bristow personal page, © Copyright Paul A Bristow, 2005 Last
updated 29 Nov 2005.
