Ada News Brief - Week Ending: 4/5/96 - 96-04-05.txt [1/1]

Ada News Brief - Week Ending: 4/5/96 - 96-04-05.txt [1/1]

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Ada News Brief
Week Ending: April 5, 1996


NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL SUPPORTS Ada 95!
      
On March 22, 1996, the Computer Science Department at the 
Naval Postgraduate School made the decision to use Ada 95 as 
the first computer language in its graduate education. 
      
The change to Ada 95 is significant not only because it will 
require the use of Ada 95 by students in courses taught at 
the school but because it will encourage Ada�s use in 
research projects leading to theses, and more importantly, 
in solving open research questions plaguing DoD research 
scientists. According to Dr. Luqi, Professor of Computer 
Science and Chair of Software Engineering, the change to Ada 
95 will affect all of the Naval Postgraduate students as 
well as distance learning graduate students from DoD and 
Government labs. Their theses will directly impact DoD & 
Navy Software R&D projects. 

SOURCE:
Dr. Luqi, Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Software 
Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 939443;   
Phone: 408/656-2735, Fax: 408/656-2814.


FIRST TIME EVER: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TO SPONSOR Ada 
SUMMER WORKSHOP

For the first time, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is 
sponsoring a workshop specifically geared to Ada entitled 
�Ada Throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum�. The workshop 
will focus on Ada�s suitability for teaching concepts such 
as data abstraction, software engineering and object-
oriented programming at all levels of a computer science 
curriculum. The workshop is intended for faculty who plan to 
use Ada in their courses and participants are expected to 
initiate a curriculum project to be completed during the 
1996-97 academic year.  

The workshop will be held at Illinois State University, June 
3 - 14, 1996. Those interested in attending the workshop 
should contact Dean Sanders:

Dean Sanders
e-mail: sanders@katya.acs.ilstu.edu
Phone: 309/438-8016
Fax: 309/438-5113

Applications should be postmarked by April 12, 1996 and sent 
to mailing address below:

Applied Computer Science Department
Campus Box 5150
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-5150

More information is available on the AdaIC�s web site at:

http://sw-eng.falls-church.falls-church..va.us/AdaIC/ed-
train/nsfclass.htm

SOURCE:
Illinois State University and the National Science 
Foundation


TestMate Ada, VERSION 2.0, RELEASED BY RATIONAL

Rational Software Corporation recently released the next 
generation of TestMate Ada, a comprehensive testing tool to 
test complex Ada systems. TestMate Ada version 2.0 
significantly improves the quality of software and reduces 
the costs of software testing and maintenance. TestMate 
supports all test activities in the testing cycle, including 
test planning, test design, test-case creation, execution 
and results analysis. 

For more information, contact Lori Heyman of Rational 
Software Corporation at 408/496-3734, e-mail: 
lorih@rational.com

SOURCE:
Rational Software Corporation News Release


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