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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86cd830ad37b8499,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-28 18:18:56 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!adanews From: adanews@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Ada Information Clearinghouse) Subject: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 28 Oct 1994 Message-ID: <1994Oct28.172543.17079@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: Ada Information Clearinghouse Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 17:25:43 EDT Date: 1994-10-28T17:25:43-04:00 List-Id: ***************************************************************** Ada 9X TECHNOLOGY INSERTION ON CAMPUS: AWARDS MADE FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ***************************************************************** 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] ***************************************************************** Ada HAS A NEW LOOK! ***************************************************************** 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] ***************************************************************** HOT_Ada TUTORIAL, VERSION 1.1, NOW AVAILABLE! ***************************************************************** 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] ***************************************************************** THE NEW GRAPHICAL DESIGNER GENERATES Ada CODE ***************************************************************** 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] ***************************************************************** GET YOUR COPY OF Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers WHILE IT'S STILL AVAILABLE ***************************************************************** 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.]