SIGAda 2004 Conference

SIGAda 2004 Conference

[Ricky E. Sward]

Conference Announcement - SIGAda 2004
14-18 November 2004, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Sponsored by ACM SIGAda

The SIGAda 2004 conference offers a top-quality technical program
focused on important strengths of the Ada programming language. Three
days of technical papers, keynotes, and invited presentations will
report on how Ada is achieving success in the challenging realm of
software engineering. We are pleased to announce that three leaders in
the software engineering community, Pam Thompson from Lockheed Martin
Aeronautics, Watts Humphrey from the Software Engineering Institute,
and Stephen Cross from the Georgia Tech Research Institute, will
provide keynote addresses. We are also fortunate to have key members
of the WG9 Ada Rapporteur Group (ARG) who will participate in a 3-hour
panel on the significant improvements that WG9 has approved for
inclusion in the Ada 2005 Amendment. The Panel will be chaired by IBM
Rational's Pascal Leroy, Chair of the WG9 ARG.

Beyond the formal conference of selected papers and presentations,
SIGAda 2004 offers two days of outstanding tutorials led by some of
the most respected technical leaders in the industry. SIGAda's
tutorials and workshops provide full- or half-days for those working
the same issues to share with each other and leverage everyone's
accomplishments; workshop products are "delivered" to the community.
The broad offerings of career-enhancing tutorials include basic Ada 95
introductions for software engineers new to Ada, intermediate and
advanced Ada topics for practitioners striving to expand their Ada
expertise, and several language-independent technology topics. Join us
in understanding how these topics mutually support the disciplined
development and evolution of serious, high quality software systems.

The following tutorial was added after the Advanced Program was
published:  A#: Programming PDAs and .NET devices with Ada - This
tutorial describes A#, an Ada environment for programming the Windows
.NET and .NET Compact Frameworks.  Attendees will learn how to create
Ada applications that take advantage of the rich set of libraries
available with the .NET Framework, and also how to deploy Ada
applications onto PDAs using the .NET Compact Framework.

For more information on the conference schedule, registration options,
and hotel information visit the SIGAda 2004 web site at the following
link.

http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2004/

Please feel free to contact me with any further questions.

Ricky E. Sward
SIGAda 2004 Program Chair