ARTEWG Workshop on Distributed Ada

ARTEWG Workshop on Distributed Ada

[Ted Baker]

Announcing the ARTEWG Workshop on Distributed Systems Applications and
Ada95 (Extension on deadline)

The Ada RunTime Environment Working Group (ARTEWG) of the Special Interest
Group on Ada (SIGAda) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will
hold a Workshop to discuss the needs for distributed systems software
technology for high-tech applications and how the distributed systems
features of Ada95 can respond to these needs.  The workshop will be held on
21-23 April 1995 at the Radisson Hotel in Santa Barbara CA.  The following
application domains will be represented:

FAA:  Don Smith, Loral Federal Systems
Medical Information Systems:  Robert Leif, Ada_Med
Manufacturing and Process Control:  Jay Bayne, Elsag Bailey
Commercial and Military Avionics:  Keith Pratt, Boeing
Radar and Tracking:  Bob Kingan, Raytheon
Financial and Banking:  TBD
Telecommunications:  TBD
Simulation and Interactive Training:  TBD
NASA:  TBD

In addition, Tucker Taft, Chief Language Designer of Ada95, will present an
overview of Ada95 and its distributed systems features.

The tentative agenda for the Workshop is:

21 April 1995

1200-1300  Lunch for invited experts
1330-1600  Introduction and overview of the Workshop; an overview of
           distribution facilities in Ada95 by Tucker Taft
1600-1630  Break
1630-1830  Presentations by invited experts

22 April 1995

0830-1030  Presentations by invited experts
1030-1100  Break
1100-1200  Presentations by invited experts
1200-1530  Lunch and midday break
1530-1700  Presentations by invited experts
1700-1730  Break
1730-1900  Presentations by invited experts

23 April 1995

0900-1030  Presentations by invited experts
1030-1100  Break
1100-1230  Presentations by invited experts
1230-1330  Lunch
1330-1430  Panel Session

The results of the Workshop will be summarized and published in AdaLetters,
the bi-monthly journal of SIGAda and a copy will be sent to all the
attendees.  Additionally the summary will be presented to the Joint Workshop
Distributed Real-Time Systems (see below) on 24-26 April.  In addition, the
results of this Workshop should set an agenda for future exploration and
cooperation.

Ada practitioners and implementors from industry, vendor and academic
community are invited to attend.  Attendance is limited to 40 people. Guest
reservations are $89 for single/double per night (an extra person is $20
extra per night).  Cost of the workshop will be approximately $100 per
person to be collected at the meeting.

If you are interested in attending please contact Mike Kamrad
(1.612.921.6908 or kamrad@cdev.com).  THEN PLEASE CONTACT
THE RADISSON HOTEL (1.805.963.0744 FAX 1.805.962.0985) BY 1 APRIL 1995 FOR
HOTEL RESERVATIONS AT THE DISCOUNT RATE AND BE SURE TO STATE THAT YOU ARE
WITH THE ACM GROUP.

Previous workshops by ARTEWG on real-time scheduling and safety software
were very engaging and produced enlightening results.  This promises to do
the same.  I look forward to your participation.

Mike Kamrad, ARTEWG Chair

PS:

Subsequent to our Workshop will be the Joint Workshop On Parallel And
Distributed Real-Time Systems (3rd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Real-Time Systems and 7th International Real-Time Ada Issues Workshop)
sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and SIGAda.  You are also invited to
this Workshop, to be held on 24-26 April in Santa Barbara, where the latest
in the state-of-the-art in distributed real-time software technology will be
presented and discussed.  This Workshop compliments our ARTEWG Workshop that
discusses the problem space by discussing the solution space.  Both
Workshops provides those with an interest in distributed systems and Ada an
excellent opportunity to see both sides of these technologies.  If you are
interested in attending this meeting, please contact Dr. Ted Baker
(904.644.5452 or baker@ada.cs.fsu.edu) or Dr. Lonnie Welch (201.596.5683 or
welch@vienna.njit.edu).

Mike Kamrad
Computing Devices International         kamrad@cdev.com
M/S BLC W3T                             1.612.921.6908
8800 Queen Avenue South                 FAX: 1.612.921.6165
Bloomington MN 55431