LabVIEW Champions Member Profile - Albert Geven

Name: Albert Geven Home: Eindhoven, Netherlands Programming Languages: LabVIEW, Algol-60, Applesoft, Pascal, Modula 2, C, C++

Certification:
Certified LabVIEW Developer since August 2004, Certified LabVIEW Architect since August 2005

Used LabVIEW Since:
LabVIEW 2.5.2, 1993

Applications Areas:
We build all kind of measurement applications and in the past five years have also begun developing control applications with GPIB, DAQ, vision and motion. Our last big job was a flexible measurement framework for semiconductor chips characterization. Our primary goal for these systems are flexibility, not speed.

Biography:
My background is in chemistry. I developed ION selective electrodes for low level measurements in water from 1974 until 1976. Then I began developing magnetic lacquers for magnetic tape and then, in 1981, I switched to test and measurement and automation applications. This was the result of being too lazy to do all of the those measurements myself during the first seven years. I was always finding more time to automate my measurements than doing the measurements by hand. In 1981 I started developing a 68000 board for multiprocessing with a guy that knew what we were up to and 3 years later we finalized the board and built 3 working systems with each 8 boards inside. That helped to more easily integrate the hardware, software and system design. I even remember that we used a bitslice processor and a meta-assembler for that code. Boy I am glad that is over and out, but we had fun. On the programming side I started in Algol-60, switched over to Applesoft, then to UCSD-pascal and later Modula 2. This one looked promising but C did not. I used C++ for two years but then we switched back to Pascal and finally LabVIEW and I forgot the rest completely.

User Groups:
Philips LabVIEW User Group (PLUG)

Discussion Groups:
I have been active with Info-labview for 12 years now, because it is easily accessible, and I sometimes contribute to LabVIEW Zone. I have a very warm feeling towards OpenG but don't spend as much time as I want to there.

Websites:
Two websites, one for our company, internal about LabVIEW and with special interest in instrument drivers, and one website for our church (Roman Catholic) - a small website but I try to keep it each week.

Articles:
I once wrote an article about polyLED measurements for the NI Quarterly And I did a lot of presentations for our user group, the LabVIEW on Site in Geel Belgium and several presentations on NI-days in the Netherlands.

Books:
No books written, but I read a lot.