Profession: Physician

Number of times previously entering contest: never

Favorite design and analysis tools: TurboCAD (IMSAI), Autosketch (Autodesk), Adobe Streamline, pencil and paper, Wikipedia, Google. I write all my own simulation programs in Forth.

For managing CAD data Paul's company uses: None

Hobbies and activities: bioengineering, robotics, artificial intelligence

Online communities: LinkedIn, Facebook

Inspired by: Biologically-inspired design, object-oriented programming. Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, National Library of Medicine (pubmed.gov), New Scientist Magazine, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Circuit Cellar Magazine, Nuts & Volts Magazine, Servo Magazine, ACM Sigplan Notices, ACM Portal