panels/tutorials at Ada UK conference

panels/tutorials at Ada UK conference

[john barnes]

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           Panel and Tutorials at 1998 Ada UK Conference

The main conference days are Tuesday and Wednesday 20/21 October
with keynotes by Ben Brosgol and Robert Dewar as previously
announced.

For details see the web page

     http://www.adauk.org.uk/conf/default.htm


An important item on Tuesday is a Panel addressing vital issues
concerning the evolution of software engineering processes
especially as they relate to Ada, procurement policies and so on.
The panel comprises a number of active experts with strong user
experience:

  Paul Berry, Racal Radar Defence Systems
  Ted Dowling, Defence & Evaluation Research Agency
  Chris Everingham, British Aerospace
  Andrew Knight, Computing Devices
  Martyn Thomas, Praxis Critical Systems
  Brian Tooby, GEC-Marconi

The panel chairman, Martyn Thomas, is a well-known expert in the
area of safety-critical systems.



The conference is enhanced by Tutorials on Monday and Thursday.

* Monday 19 October 1998 : 09.30  17.45 (full-day)

Migrating An OO Model to Ada 95: A complete Method-Independent OO
Process  Putnam P Texel

This full-day tutorial, based on Use Cases Combined with
Booch/OMT/UML:  Process and Products (Texel/Williams, Prentice
Hall, 1997) targets management and technical staff, as well as
QA, and introduces them to a complete OO process, starting with
Requirements Engineering and concluding with Requirements Trace.

Putnam P Texel is President of TEXEL & Co., Inc., specializing in
migrating organizations to an Object-Oriented development
process.

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Java for Ada Programmers  Benjamin M Brosgol

This full-day tutorial presents the basic elements of the Java
language and technology, focusing on the Object-Oriented
Programming model.  It is intended for computing professionals
with some knowledge of Ada 83; previous exposure to Ada 95 and
OOP is helpful but not strictly necessary.

Dr Benjamin Brosgol is Chief Ada Technologist with Aonix in
Burlington, Massachusetts.


* Thursday 22 October 1998 : 09.30  13.00 (half-day)

The Ravenscar Tasking Profile for High Integrity Real-Time Ada
Programs  Alan Burns

The Ravenscar profile defines a simple subset of the tasking
features of Ada in order to support efficient, high integrity
applications that need to be analyzed for their timing
properties.  This half day tutorial describes the Profile and
gives the motivations for the features it does (and does not)
include.

Professor Alan Burns leads the Real-Time Systems research group
at the University of York.

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Ada 95, Java and GNAT: A Manager's and Developer's Roadmap
Franco Gasperoni

This half-day tutorial is for managers, project leaders, software
engineers and programmers who are interested in understanding the
Java technology, its opportunities and how the current Ada
language (Ada 95) can be used on the Java platform. The tutorial
will contain down-to-earth examples and a large number of
demonstrations to help participants acquire a concrete grasp of
the concepts presented.

Franco Gasperoni is one of the founders of ACT-Europe, the
European GNAT company and a professor of Computer Sciences at the
ENST in Paris.



* Thursday 22 October 1998 :  14.00  17.30 (half-day)

Estimating Object-Oriented Ada Projects  Rob Day

This half-day tutorial targets professional software project
managers and their bosses, together with development team leaders
and process improvement/metrics personnel, who wish to gain a
better appreciation of the role of estimation in the planning and
management of large-scale object-oriented projects.

Rob Day is a software project management consultant based in
England, specializing in the management, estimation and metrics
for large OO developments.

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CORBA and Real-Time CORBA Tutorial  Bill Beckwith

This tutorial will provide an overview of CORBA, explain what
CORBA is, where the standard comes from, which vendors implement
this standard, how developers typically use vendors products, and
where the OMG standards are headed. The tutorial will especially
discuss the ramifications of using CORBA in real-time and
embedded systems, and one particular Real-Time CORBA product,
ORBexpress, and some of the applications developed with this
product.

Bill Beckwith is Chief Technology Officer for Objective Interface
Systems, Inc.

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The 1998 Ada UK conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel,
Bristol on 19-22 October 1998.

For full details and reservations contact the Ada UK
Administrator, Helen Byard, Tel: +44 (0)1904 412740, Fax: +44
(0)1904 426702, email: admin@adauk.org.uk.