From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,319dd62e79ab5837,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,319dd62e79ab5837,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,319dd62e79ab5837,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,319dd62e79ab5837,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,319dd62e79ab5837,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public From: seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (SEIC) Subject: SEIC News, W/E Jan. 24, 1997 Date: 1997/01/24 Message-ID: <5cba0i$1d5@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> X-Deja-AN: 211978806 content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Software Engineering Information Center mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1997-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Software Engineering News Brief Week Ending January 24, 1997 ***************************************** AJPO ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF Topic: Ada Lieutenant Colonel John A. (Drew) Hamilton, Jr., US Army, has been announced as the new Chief of the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO). The Lieutenant Colonel is replacing Dr. Charles B. Engle, Jr., who has moved back to the private sector. LTC Hamilton completed his PhD. in Computer Science at Texas A&M University and was assigned to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the U.S. Military Academy from which he is now on hiatus. Previously he served as the Chief, Officer Training Division at the Computer Science School, Fort Gordon, GA. LTC Hamilton has a B.A. in Journalism from Texas Tech University, where he was commissioned in Field Artillery, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and an M.S. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. In addition to his current role as AJPO Chief, he has also served the AJPO as a member of the Ada Software Engineering Education Team. SOURCE: AJPO ********************************************************************* YORK COLLEGE ADA 95 COURSEWARE AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET Topic: Ada Since 1992, the Department of Defense has supported efforts to encourage development of undergraduate and graduate courses in Ada and software engineering. The most recent effort was supported by the Defense Information Systems Agency's Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), in which educators were awarded contracts for developing Ada 95 Courseware. The latest Ada Courseware project to be made available on the Internet, "From Pascal to Ada 95: An Introduction By Examples," was developed by Dr. T.C. Wu of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at York College/CUNY. The result of this project is a two-course sequence in Ada and Software Engineering for Information Systems Management majors. The York College Project is available on the Ada Information Clearinghouse WWW site at: . Additional University Ada Courseware can be accessed through the AdaIC WWW pages at: . SOURCE: AJPO **************************************************** MOSEMANN ENTERS GCN HALL OF FAME Topic: Reuse Lloyd K. Mosemann II, who spent nearly four decades working to improve software development and use within the Department of Defense (DoD), is the newest member of the Government Computer News' Hall of Fame. At the awards ceremony Mosemann said he was beginning to see some of his predictions about software reuse coming true. In the 1980's, Mosemann recalled saying, "If there is a silver bullet for software in the 1990's, that silver bullet will be reuse." But as years passed and reuse was on the back burner at the DoD, Mosemann said he began to think he might have missed the mark. But as economics demanded improvements in software processes, it wasn't possible for the Pentagon and services agencies to build custom systems from scratch. Instead, it became necessary to reuse existing code combined with off-the-shelf packages to keep costs down. Mosemann, who retired January 1996, said of the award, "It's truly nice to be both gone and not forgotten." SOURCE: Government Computer News, November 4, 1996, v15 n28 p61(1). ********************************************************************** IS JAVA A DIALECT OF ADA? Topic: Ada Ada programmers listened politely last month, at the TRI-Ada Conference in Philadelphia, PA, to Ken Arnold of Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Inc. as he described the Defense Department-sponsored Ada language as "the 110 percent solution." The commercial market doesn't accept such complexity, he said. Arnold referred to Java as "a dialect of Ada." Contradicting popular impressions of Java as an applet language, Arnold said Java has been used in five mission-critical applications of a half-million lines each. Tucker Taft, the lead designer of Ada 95 and chief scientist at Intermetrics Inc., agreed that Java "is a pretty impressive success story," with a lot of features that make programs reliable. SOURCE: Government Computer News, January 13, 1997, v16 n1 p4. ******************************************************************* The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Software Engineering Information Center (SEIC) "Software Engineering News Brief" is a compilation of summaries from software engineering-related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The DISA SEIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to software engineering-related articles. Contact the DISA SEIC at: mailto:info@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us To subscribe to the "Software Engineering News Brief" electronic mailing list, send a message to: mailto:listproc@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us In the body of the message, write: subscribe newslist To unsubscribe, write: unsubscribe newslist No signatures please.