From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, T_FILL_THIS_FORM_SHORT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 13 Aug 93 20:19:02 GMT From: pattis@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) Subject: Tri-Ada 93: Grants for Educators (long) Message-ID: <1993Aug13.201902.4904@beaver.cs.washington.edu> List-Id: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- -- Conference Grants for Educators to Attend TRI-Ada 93 -- September 18-23, 1993 -- Seattle WA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goals: The ACM/SIGAda Conference Grants program is intended to help educators introduce, strengthen, and expand the use of Ada in secondary school, college, and university curricula. We welcome a proposal from anyone who feels that his or her goals meet this description. The 1993 program will award approximately 10 of these grants. Benefits: (1) Full registration for the technical sessions at TRI-Ada '93, in Seattle, Washington, Sept. 18-23, including one copy of the conference proceedings. (2) Registration costs for 2 days of tutorials or workshops at TRI-Ada '93, September 18-19 (Saturday and Sunday). A copy of the course titles to be presented at TRI-Ada is included at the end of this announcement. You may choose to attend any course(s) that will help you achieve your goals. How to Propose: In order to be considered for a grant, you must prepare a formal proposal and send it, by regular mail or e-mail postmarked, by August 27, 1993 to either Michael B. Feldman Richard E. Pattis Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Computer Science and Computer Science and Engineering The George Washington University University of Washington Washington, DC 20052 Seattle, WA 98195 (202) 994-5253 (206) 685-1218 mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu pattis@cs.washington.edu The proposal should contain three specific items: (1) Cover Letter: A cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (if available). It should be stated that you would not be able to attend the conference without the support of this grant. It would be useful to obtain a statement from the appropriate department chair or dean, to the effect that he/she has read and supports the your statements, including assurance that the necessary travel funds will be made available to you if the grant is awarded. (2) Proposer's Statement (3 pages maximum): A statement of the proposer's background, environment, and plans. -- Environment : The current curriculum in your institution -- Plans : What you plan to do with Ada in the curriculum and how these plans relate to the current environment in your school -- Background : The relevant experience that you bring to the plans (3) Course Selection: State which TRI-Ada tutorial(s) or workshop(s) you would like to attend, and if it is not obvious, the relevance of these courses to the plans above. Evaluating Proposals: All proposals will be evaluated by educators who teach and use Ada in their curricula. Proposals will be evaluated on: -- the quality and appropriateness of the plans -- the appropriateness of the TRI-Ada courses to the plans -- the preparation of the proposer to do the development Awards will be announced by Sep 10, 1993. Grantees will be asked to accept the grant formally and to verify their attendance at that time, and arrangements will be made for registration following their acceptance. All proposers will be notified of the decision on their proposals, but detailed evaluation information will not be available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI-Ada '93 Tutorials Saturday September 18 - Sunday, September 19 S1A/S1B: Ada 9X as a Second Ada / Full Day, Offered Both Saturday and Sunday S2: Object-Oriented Programming and Reuse in Ada 9X / Half Day Saturday PM S3: Object-Oriented Programming Using Ada 9X / Full Day Sunday S4: Using Ada 9X Tasking Features to Construct Real-Time Systems / Half Day Saturday PM S5: Ada 9X Distributed Systems Annex / Half Day Saturday AM S6: Information Systems Support in Ada 9X / Half Day Sunday AM S7: Numeric Features of Ada 9X / Half Day Sunday AM S8: Safety Annex / Full Day Sunday S9: Managing the Transition to Ada 9X / Half Day Sunday PM S10: Intelligent Real-Time Systems and Ada 9X / Full Day Saturday S11: Introductory and Intermediate Ada for Programmers / Two Full Days S12: Advanced Ada Issues / Two Full Days S13: Teaching and Using Ada in CS1/CS2 / Two Full Days S14: POSIX Ada Binding / Full Day Sunday S15: An Introduction to SAMeDL and the SAME Methodology / Half Day Sunday PM S16: Introduction to the Ada Semantic Interface Specification / Half Day Sunday AM S17: Software Component Engineering Using Ada: Applying Explicit Design Principles in a Disciplined Way / Full Day Saturday S18: Tool Technology / Full Day Saturday S19: DoD Re-Engineering / Half Day Sunday PM S20: A Software Design Method for Ada-Based Real-Time Systems / Full Day Sunday S21: Ada Multitasking Prototyping Using Higher-Level Statecharts / Full Day Saturday S22: Domain Analysis with KAPTUR / Full Day Saturday S23: Designing Systems and Software Architecture / Full Day Sunday S24: An Introduction to Software System Safety / Full Day Saturday S25: Introduction to C++ for Ada Programmers / Full Day Sunday S26: Managing Object-Oriented Software Development Projects / Full Day Sunday S27: Introducing Software Reuse / Full Day Sunday S28: Introduction to Function Point Counting and Project Estimating Using Function Points / Full Day Saturday S29: Process Management and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software / Full Day Saturday S30: Components of an Effective Process Improvement Program / Full Day Sunday -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard E. Pattis "Programming languages are like Department of Computer Science pizzas - they come in only "too" and Engineering sizes: too big and too small."