From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8b3f0d1d0046e739,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-19 17:57:04 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Recent Additions to the "Who's Using Ada" Report Message-ID: <1993Mar19.205428.7061@seas.gwu.edu> Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu Organization: George Washington University Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 20:54:28 GMT Date: 1993-03-19T20:54:28+00:00 List-Id: Attached are some new additions to my list of non-defense projects known to be using Ada. Many of these have come from Lori Heyman and Philippe Kruchten of Rational, and from Dirk Craeynest of the University of Louvain, Belgium. Reports of most of the Belgian ones have appeared in the Ada-Belgium Newsletter. Perhaps the most interesting entry is the one from Belgium showing Ada applied to Jacquard knitting machines and other textile looms. Those who know their computer history will recall that the Jacquard loom was developed in France in the 18th century, and was "programmed" with a very early version of the punched card. From the Jacquard loom (and the music box) came the punched-roll player piano, from which Herman Hollerith - in 1885 or so - got the idea for the punched card used in the 1890 census. The rest, as they say, is history. What goes around, comes around. Perhaps the real Ada would be proud... Happy reading. Let me know by e-mail if you need a copy of the full list (now about 6 pages long). I will post the revised one soon. Mike Feldman (list follows sig) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 USA (202) 994-5253 (voice) (202) 994-5296 (fax) mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "The most important thing is to be sincere, and once you've learned how to fake that, you've got it made." -- old show-business adage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ USA AAI: Commercial fire-fighter simulator/trainer, Rational. USA General Electric: Satellite communications ground station (known as the Second TDRSS Ground Terminal), Rational. USA Honeywell: Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) for the Boeing 777, Rational. USA JEOL USA, Inc.: Delta - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer Control, Data Processing and Visualization, Irix(SGI UNIX), SGI/Ada & SGI/MP-Ada (Verdix 6.2f based). USA NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Cassini orbiter spacecraft to Saturn, Rational. Belgium Eurocontrol Brussels: Central Flow Management Unit (air traffic control), HP 9000/HP-UX, Alsys. Belgium ICT Automatisering: STAS-300 - automatic operation of liquid fuels depots, VAX/VMS, DEC Ada. Belgium Meersschaert N.V.: Software for weaving-looms and jacquard- machines. Belgium Spacebel Informatique S.A.: Mock-up software for Hermes space shuttle localisation, Sun3, TLD Ada (HSDE). Belgium Spacebel Informatique S.A.: VICOS - Verification and Integration Check Out System for space station Columbus test beds, Verdix. Belgium Spacebel Informatique S.A.: USS - User Support Services, library of embedded software for space station Columbus Data Management System, Sun 3/4, Alsys. Belgium Trasys: DIMOS - Distributed Monitoring System for nuclear power plant, 300,000 lines, VAX/VMS & VAX/ELN, DEC Ada. Belgium Trasys: Application software of CANAC air traffic control system for Brussels national airport. Belgium Trasys: NGP - Navigation, Guidance and Piloting, prototyping of part of embedded software of Hermes space shuttle, Sun SPARC, Verdix. Belgium Trasys: prototyping of Core System and Mission Management for Columbus space station. Belgium Trasys: software for test benches of ARIANE 5 rocket. Belgium Trasys: PRODOS - dosimetry control system for nuclear power plant. Canada Hughes: CAATS - Canadian Air Traffic Control System, Rational. France SNCF: Astree program - project for automatic train control, Rational. UK IBM: NERC Program (New Enroute Center) - air traffic control, Rational. UK Ferranti International: Generic tools to build nuclear power station monitoring systems, Rational. UK Ferranti (customer is Nuclear Electric): Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR) refurbishment program, Rational. ---end-of-new-entries---------------------------------------------------