Ada News Brief - 96-09-06.txt [1/1]

Ada News Brief - 96-09-06.txt [1/1]

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Ada News Brief
Week Ending: September 6, 1996

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DoD PUBLISHES CD-ROM-BASED DEFENSE ACQUISITION DESKBOOK
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The Defense Department recently published the first edition 
of its CD-Rom based Defense Acquisition Deskbook, a one-stop 
source for program offices which includes DoD and government 
acquisition policies, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, 
and other reference material. The CD-Rom, which will be 
issued quarterly and has a companion WWW site, also includes 
the beginnings of a library of material on best practices, 
lessons learned, and examples of innovative procurements.

The CD-Rom is expected to provide a more effective means of 
accessing guidelines and other acquisition-related topics. 
The WWW site, http://deskbook.osd.mil/deskbook.html, 
features a bulletin board where the DoD can publish new 
policies and any discretionary material that is especially 
topical. The CD-Rom will be offered to industry vendors at 
about $35.

SOURCE
Monroe, John Stein, "Defense Puts Out CD-Rom Deskbook," 
	Federal Computer Week. August 12, 1996: 1, 14.

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Ada-EUROPE'97 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RELIABLE 
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES
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The 1997 Ada-Europe Conference will be held June 2-6, 1997 
in London's Tower Hotel. The Conference aims to bring 
together users and vendors of software engineering tools, 
and those who research and teach related techniques, to 
discuss and exchange new developments and to share good 
practice. The Conference will consist of tutorials, 
presentations and demonstrations of software engineering 
products.

Participation in the Conference is invited from all those in 
the software engineering community -  users, vendors, 
educators and researchers. Find the Call for Papers and 
additional information at:
http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/adauk/Ada-Europe/Conference/1997

For more information, please contact: 
The Ada-Europe Conference Administrator: Helen Byard,
c/o Ada UK, PO Box 322, York YO1 3GY, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1904 412740   Fax: +44 1904 426702
E-mail: admin@adauk.org.uk
or the Conference Chairman: Bill Taylor,
E-mail: 101576.2126@compuserve.com

To register your e-mail address to receive further 
information, send mail to topprg@sis.port.ac.uk

SOURCE:
Conference brochure supplied by Ada Europe and Ada UK in 
cooperation with ACM SIGAda.

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Ada 95 MATRIX MATH PACKAGE AVAILABLE
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The Data Fusion laboratory, part of Drexel University, has 
made the first release of its Ada 95 Matrix Math package 
available to the Ada 95 community. The package targets 
vector and matrix math operations implemented natively in 
Ada 95. Many operations, such as determinants, subvectors/ 
matrices, singular value decompositions, inverses, 
eigenvalues/eigenvectors are supported.

For more information on the Ada 95 Matrix Math package, 
refer to the Data Fusion Lab's web page at:
http://dflwww.ece.drexel.edu/
The matrix package is under Research, entitled "ADA Matrix 
Package."

SOURCE:
Chris Papademetrious, Data Fusion Laboratory, Drexel 
University, Philadelphia, PA.

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i-LOGIX OFFERS NEW CAD SOFTWARE
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i-Logix, Inc. has recently introduced Statemate Magnum, an 
improved and redesigned CAD platform designed to facilitate 
electronic system design automation (ESDA). Aimed at system 
designers rather than ASIC designers, Statemate Magnum 
enables users to chart system behavior, generate source code 
and run simulations. Statemate Magnum is capable of 
generating Ada code for software developers.

SOURCE:
Goering, Richard. "i-Logix Inc.'s Statemate Magnum replaces 
previous line of CAD software," Electronic Engineering 
Times. June 24, 1996: 18-19.

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