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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4422f81758868f3a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jgpb@jbinfo.demon.co.uk (john barnes) Subject: panels/tutorials at Ada UK conference Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <2112@jbinfo.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 398001951 X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!jbinfo.demon.co.uk X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 907613672 mail2news:8573 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk Reply-To: jgpb@jbinfo.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1998-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 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. ===== 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. ===== 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. ===== 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. === 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.