Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 28 Oct 1994

Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 28 Oct 1994

[Ada Information Clearinghouse]

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           Ada 9X TECHNOLOGY INSERTION ON CAMPUS:
           AWARDS MADE FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
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DATELINE:  October 28, 1994

Grants have been made in response to this summer's Broad Area
Announcement (BAA) for proposals for developing Ada curricula.

The goal of the BAA was to encourage university development of
undergraduate educational curricula, course materials, and
innovative presentation tools or methods for demonstrating the use
of the Ada 9X programming language.

The Department of Defense is reinforcing its commitment to Ada by
responding to the demands of the DoD development community by
striving to increase use of Ada in the academic community.  Ada 9X
is unique because it provides a sound engineering approach to
object-oriented design.  This round of university awards will
produce Ada 9X courseware that will be distributed free via CD-ROM
to the private and public sector.

The round of proposals for grants concluded with the following
awards:

Florida International Univ.   $53,574   Development of an Ada
                                        Base 2 Semester Intro
                                        Computer Science/Software
                                        Engineering Course and a
                                        Multi-Media Instructional
                                        Software

Montana State Univ.           $64,907   Ada in a 4 Course,
                                        Breadth First,
                                        Introductory Computer
                                        Science Curriculum

Santa Clara University
     (cost-shared)            $37,064   Data Structures with Ada
                                        9X

State University of New York
at Binghamton (cost-shared)   $56,866   Teaching formal methods
                                        using Ada and related
                                        analysis and synthesis
                                        tools

Univ. of Alabama              $91,458   Ada Curriculum
                                        Development Workshops

Univ. of Illinois at Chicago 
     (cost-shared)            $67,035   A Software Engineering
                                        Course Sequence for
                                        Distributed and Real-Time
                                        Systems

Univ. of Scranton 
     (cost-shared)            $59,213   Ada 9X resources to
                                        support and improve a
                                        breadth first approach to
                                        CS2

York College 
     (cost-shared)            7,576     Design and Implementation
                                        of a Software Engineering
                                        Course Sequence for
                                        Undergraduate Computer
                                        Majors (emphasizing use
                                        of Ada)

The Ada Joint Program Office intends to announce next years BAA's
for Ada 9X at the June 1994, Ada Software Engineering Education and
Training (ASEET) Symposium in Morgantown, West Virginia.

[Source:  Don Reifer, AJPO Director]

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                       Ada HAS A NEW LOOK!
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DATELINE:  October 28, 1994

A new Ada logo, combining the globe symbol used by the Ada IC and
the tagline: "Ada -- The Language For a Complex World," has been
approved for industry use in Ada marketing materials by Chris
Anderson, Ada 9X Project Manager and AJPO Director Don Reifer.

Several vendors have already requested Ada's new logo which is
available in .gif format in the public/graphics directory on the
AJPO host (ajpo.sei.cmu.edu) on the Internet.

[Source:  Kristin Mead, Ada Information Clearinghouse]

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          HOT_Ada TUTORIAL, VERSION 1.1, NOW AVAILABLE!
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DATELINE:  October 28, 1994

HOT_Ada 1.1, a two-volume course/tutorial distributed on floppy
disks, is now available from Stage Harbor Software.

HOT_Ada is designed for individual, self-paced learning.  One
version runs on Macintoshes, another on PCs with Windows.  The many
hypertext and hypergraphic features allow you, for instance, to
click on a "hot word" to see its definition in the Glossary or
click on a "hot icon" in a diagram to jump to the corresponding
line of Ada source code in a previously hidden listing.

The Hypertext course on Object Technology and Ada 9X may be
purchased from Bard Crawford during the upcoming Tri-Ada Conference
in Baltimore during the week of November 7 - 11.

The regular price for the two-volume set is $49.  During Tri-Ada
and until December 31, 1994, the set may be purchased at the
introductory price of $30.

E-mail inquiries welcomed at: bscrawford@aol.com.  Regular mail
inquiries or mail orders (specify Mac or Windows, personal checks
accepted) can be sent to:

Stage Harbor Software
9 Patriots Drive
Lexington, MA 02173

[Source:  Bard Crawford, Stage Harbor Software]

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          THE NEW GRAPHICAL DESIGNER GENERATES Ada CODE
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DATELINE:  October 28, 1994

Advanced Software Technologies, Inc. has introduced Graphical
Designer, a Unix-based, computer-aided software development tool. 
Developers can select an object-oriented methodology to express
high- and low-level designs in a graphical format while
automatically generating Ada, C, or C++ code.

[Source:  New Products, Computerworld, October 17, 1994, Vol. 28,
No. 42]

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        GET YOUR COPY OF Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers 
                   WHILE IT'S STILL AVAILABLE
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DATELINE:  October 28, 1994

There are just a few hardcopies left of Ada, The Enchantress of
Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and
Her Description of the First Computer, by Betty A. Toole Ed.D.,
ISBN 0-912647-09-4.  Published by Strawberry Press, the book might
make a perfect holiday corporate gift for your Ada users.

Signed, discount copies for corporations can be obtained in
quantity from Critical Connection (415/388-2328).  Individual
copies are available through Border Books, OPAMP (1-800/468-4322),
Computer Literacy Bookstores (408/435-0744), or Critical
Connection.

Additional information about Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers and
presentations about Ada can be obtained from Critical Connection:

P.O. Box 452
Sausalito, CA 94966
FAX:  415/388-2328 or
e-mail adatoole@well.sf.ca.us

[Source:  Betty A. Toole, Ed.D.]