Washington Ada Symposium Advanced Program

Washington Ada Symposium Advanced Program

[Ed Seidewitz]

14TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON ADA SYMPOSIUM (WAdaS '97)
Sponsored by DC SIGAda and ACM SIGAda
McLean Hilton, Tysons Corner VA
June 23-26, 1997

Once again the Washington Ada Symposium will provide an important forum
for the exchange of practical information on the application of Ada in
today's world. We have keynote talks by Tucker Taft, the lead designer
of Ada 95, and Lt. Col. John A. Hamilton, Chief of the AJPO, sessions on
object-oriented methods, the Ada Common Environment, the Ada Semantic
Interface Specification, Ada for distributed systems, Ada 95 experience
and the growing use of Ada in secondary and college education, as well
as a set of informative tutorials ranging from introductions to Ada 95
and object orientation to the use of Ada for data warehousing.

And all for only $150/day (for ACM and ACM SIGAda members; academic rate
is $25/day; students FREE)!

For the latest program information and to register see our web site at:
 <http://www.ois.com/wadas97>

Here is an outline of our program:

Monday, June 23
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Tutorials:
  1. Simply Ada, Mike Kamrad
  2. Beyond Child Packages and Tagged Types, Chad Bremmon 
  3. Software Measurement for Practitioners, Mike Stark
  4. Software Architecture with Ada, Magnus Kempe

Workshop:
  1. ACM SIGAda Long-Range Planning Meeting, Hal Hart (FREE)

Tuesday, June 24
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Tutorials:
  5. Ada 95 and Object-Orientation, Brad Balfour
  6. Ada Data Warehousing, Gil Prine
  7. Writing Java-compatible Applets in Ada 95, Tucker Taft (Morning
only)
  8. Ada 95 and CORBA, Tami Stein (Afternoon only)

Workshops:
  3. Academia and Industry: How Shall We Cooperate to Produce Tomorrow's
     Software Engineers?, Michael Feldman (FREE)
  4. High-Integrity Object-Oriented Programming with Ada 95, Tucker Taft
     (Afternoon only)

Wednesday, June 25
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 8:30AM- 9:00AM Welcome
 9:00AM-10:00AM Keynote: Tucker Taft, Intermetrics
10:00AM-10:30AM Break
10:30AM-12:00NN Ada 95 Early Adopters
12:00NN- 1:30PM Lunch: Robert Dewar, Ada Core Technologies
 1:30PM- 3:00PM Ada 95 and Distributed Systems
 3:00PM- 3:30PM Break
 3:30PM- 5:00PM Ada 95 and Java
                    
Thursday, June 26
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 9:00AM-10:00AM Keynote: Lt. Col. John A. Hamilton, Chief, AJPO
10:00AM-10:30AM Break
10:30AM-12:00NN Ada Common Environment (ACE)
12:00NN- 1:30PM Lunch: Charles B. Engle, Q-Labs
 1:30PM- 3:00PM Ada and Education
 3:00PM- 3:30PM Break
 3:30PM- 5:00PM ASIS: Roll Your Own Analysis Tool
                
Mini-Exhibition
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Exhibitors will include:

AAI Corporation
Rational Software Corporation
Objective Interface Systems
NASA Goddard Flight Dynamics Division
The Ada Information Clearinghouse