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|                                     ACM SIGAda                               |
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|                                      presents                                |
|                     Annual International Conference and Exposition           |
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|                                     SIGAda '98                               |
|                                 (formerly Tri-Ada)                           |
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|Sponsored by the ACM's Special Interest Group on the Ada Programming Language | 
|    in cooperation with: SIGAPP, SIGBIO, SIGCAS, SIGCSE, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT,    |
|                  Ada-Europe, Baltimore SIGAda, and DC SIGAda                 |
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|                                  November 8-12, 1998                         |
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|                            Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC                |
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|                                   "Ada IN CONTEXT"                           |
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DETAILS: http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sa98

Register early and save up to $150.
For registration information please call: 800-500-2711  (U.S. & Canada)
+1-407-628-3602  (all others)
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* Each registrant receives free 2-disk Ada CD with over 10Gb of Ada resources

* Each Tutorial registrant receives the full Tutorial Book, which contains
charts from all SIGAda '98 tutorials.

A unique value provided by SIGAda's conference!
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GRANTS FOR EDUCATORS
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If you are a college or university educator, you are eligible for
a SIGAda Educator Grant providing you a full waiver of conference
and tutorial fees. See the web site for details; you must act fast,
as the application deadline is approaching.

For a hard-copy version of the Advance Program via snail-mail,
contact Hal.Hart@acm.org

For the full ASCII version via e-mail, contact dharrison@acm.org

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The location
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The Omni Shoreham is a beautifully restored traditional hotel,
in a park setting at the edge of central Washington, DC. The hotel
is adjacent to the Metro station at Woodley Park and a lively restaurant
district.

The conference
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"Ada in Context" will be a lively, informative and enjoyable conference
with something for everyone with an interest in the Ada language and
related technologies:

* Tutorials
* Workshops
* Six truly excellent keynote and invited speakers
* Professional development seminars
* Lively panels
* Refereed paper sessions
* Experience report sessions
* Birds-of-a-Feather sessions

Buffet Reception and Conference Gala featuring a hilarious satirical show by the
ACT Players.
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We hope to see you in Washington in November!

Yours truly,

Bill Thomas (bthomas@mitre.org)
Ed Seidewitz (seidewitz@acm.org)
  Conference co-chairs
Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu)
  Program chair

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