SEIC News Brief, Nov. 15, 1996

SEIC News Brief, Nov. 15, 1996

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Software Engineering News Brief
Week Ending:  11/15/96

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NRC PUBLIC BRIEFING SLIDES ON WWW
Topic:  Ada

The slide presentation from the National Research Council's public briefing 
entitled "Ada and Beyond:  Software Policies for the Department of Defense" 
is now available on the World Wide Web.  The 54 page slide presentation, 
in HTML format, can be accessed via the Ada Information Clearinghouse 
(AdaIC) WWW pages at 
<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/docs/present/nrc>.  For further 
information, contact the AdaIC at 1-800/AdaIC-11 (1-800/232-4211).

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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RATIONAL ROSE 4.0 SUPPORTS ITERATIVE PROCESSES
Topic: Reuse

The Rational Software Corporation's recently released Rational Rose 
4.0 offers support for software engineering teams implementing 
iterative processes.  Iterative processes enable developers to 
dramatically reduce risk in a project by exposing it early in the 
lifecycle rather than at the end. Rational Rose 4.0 supports teams 
implementing iterative processes by using round-trip engineering to maintain 
consistency at each iteration between an application's visual model and 
its implementation.

Rational Rose 4.0 will support controlled iterative development and 
round-trip engineering for a variety of programming languages and 4GLs, 
including Ada, C++, Visual Basic, Java, Forte, PowerBuilder, and Smalltalk. 

SOURCE:  Rational Online News, owner-rational_news@rational.com, 11/11/96.

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CALL FOR ADA 95 SURVEY
Topic: Ada

REMINDER: A few months ago you may have received a blue "Survey 
of Ada 95 Projects" from the Ada Information Clearinghouse(AdaIC). The 
survey is being undertaken to gauge the extent of use of Ada 95. If you 
have not yet done so, please complete the Survey and return it to:  
AdaIC, PO Box 1866, Falls Church, VA 22041.

If you did not receive a copy of the Survey, or misplaced it, and 
would like one sent to you, please contact the AdaIC at 1-800/AdaIC-11 or 
<adainfo@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>.

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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TRI-Ada '96 FREE EXHIBIT PASSES AVAILABLE
Topic: Ada

The Ada Information Clearinghouse(AdaIC) has a limited number of free 
exhibitor guest passes available to TRI-Ada '96. The TRI-Ada '96 
Conference is being held December 3-7, 1996 at the Philadelphia Marriott in 
Philadelphia, PA.  The exhibit hall will be open December 4 and 5 from 10:00 
a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and December 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.  If you would 
like a free exhibit pass or more information about the conference, contact 
the AdaIC by phone at 1-800/AdaIC-11, or by e-mail at 
<rosend@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>.

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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ACADEMIC ADA 95 COMPILER/TEXTBOOK PACKAGE RELEASED ON CD-ROM
Topic: Ada

Addison Wesley publishing company and Thomson Software Products have
teamed to release a compiler/textbook package aimed at the student
market and also available for any academic, experimental, or personal
use without restriction.

The package will be available on CD-ROM December 2, 1996; the compiler is 
a "Special Edition" of Thomson's Ada 95 compiler ObjectAda; the textbook 
is "Ada 95, Problem Solving and Program Design," Second Edition, by Michael
B. Feldman and Elliot B. Koffman.

This Special Edition of ObjectAda will be available for student and
academic use on PCs and workstations running Windows95 and WindowsNT.
No site license will be needed, and the combined package will be offered 
at the same price as the book alone except for a nominal cost for packaging.

A full commercial license is available separately from Thomson.

For further information...

Instructors wishing to receive a complimentary examination copy of
the text (ISBN 87009) for adoption consideration may send their
request via e-mail to aw.cse@aw.com; within the USA, call
1-800/447-2226.  Addison-Wesley's World Wide Web site is
<http://www.aw.com/cseng/authors/>.

For additional information on the full commercial site license
available through Thomson, contact Sandra Golez-Meiley at
meily@ide.com.

SOURCE:  Ada Joint Program Office

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DDC-I ANNOUNCES DACS-ASIS
Topic: Ada

DDC-I has announced the availability of DACS-ASIS -- the implementation 
of ASIS 2.0F for the DDC-I Ada Compiler System (DACS-95).  ASIS is the Ada 
Semantic Interface Specification.  Version 2.0 supports Ada 95, and 
provides programmatic access to the semantic and syntactic information 
contained in the Ada environment.  ASIS is a set of Ada package 
specifications that define over 400 functions or queries.  These queries 
are closely patterned after the syntax and semantics of Ada as defined 
in the Ada 95 Reference Manual.

More information on ASIS 2.0 can be found on the Web at 
<http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/asiswg>.  

DACS-ASIS is supported in part by the Ada Technology Insertion 
Program-Partnership (ATIP-P).

SOURCE:  DDC-I Real-Time Journal, v. 3(2), p. 1-2.  Copyright 1996, DDC-I.

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