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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c78757a3a0491b08,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,c78757a3a0491b08,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c78757a3a0491b08,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,c78757a3a0491b08,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c78757a3a0491b08,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (SEIC) Subject: SEIC News Brief, W/E Feb. 14, 1997 Date: 1997/02/14 Message-ID: <5e2npi$i1t@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 218844616 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: 1997-02-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Software Engineering News Brief Week Ending: February 14, 1997 ********************************************************** LT. GEN. EDMONDS PLANS TO STEP DOWN Topic: Ada, Reuse, DII, COE Air Force Lt. Gen. Albert J. Edmonds, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), last month announced plans to retire, though he did not set a date. Edmonds, who became the second director of DISA on July 29, 1994, said in an interview that he will leave the agency satisfied that he has met the major challenges he faced when he took command. SOURCE: Bob Brewin, Federal Computer Week, . *********************************************************** FUN AND GAMES WITH ADA Topic: Ada Ada Towers, ver. 1.00, is a solitaire-type card game written in Ada. The game is approximately 2,000 lines of Ada code, and the User Interface library is about 5,000 lines of Ada code. Version 1.00 is freely available and can be found at . For further information, contact Ada Towers creator: Bill Yow, 750 East Hidden View Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85048, . SOURCE: Bill Yow. *********************************************************** SCIENTIFIC HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING WITH ADA 95 Topic: Ada Ada 95 has been successfully used in scientific high performance computing. A code developed by Martin J. Stift is capable of synthesizing the integrated polarized spectrum of a rotating magnetic star (the so-called Oblique Rotator), and has been successfully executed in parallel on several processors of a Silicon Graphics Power Challenge XL symmetric multiprocessing server. Mr. Stift found that, for the calculation of stellar spectra over large wavelength intervals and of stellar atmospheres, the Ada tasking model is much better suited than High Performance Fortran. A first description can be found in http://amok.ast.univie.ac.at/~stift/parallel.html Martin J. Stift Institut fuer Astronomie Tuerkenschanzstr. 17 A-1180 Wien Tel. 43-1-4706800/35 Fax 43-1-4706800/35 stift@astro.ast.univie.ac.at SOURCE: Martin J. Stift. *********************************************************** TASK DEPENDENCE AND TERMINATION IN ADA Topic: Ada In her latest article, Laura K. Dillon analyzes the semantics of task dependence and termination in Ada. Her article also examines the manner in which the termination rules affect the synchronization of concurrent tasks, while considering master-slave and client-server applications. Her findings can be read in the January 1997 issue of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering sand Methodology. SOURCE: Dillon, Laura K., "Task Dependence and Termination in Ada," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Jan. 1997, v6, n1, pp80-110. *********************************************************** CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS-4th ANNUAL OBJECT APPLICATIONS AWARDS Topic: Reuse Object World Frankfurt '97 will take place on October 7-10, 1997 together with COMDEX Internet at the Sheraton Conference Center Frankfurt/Main
. One of the highlights of the show will be the fourth edition of the annual OMG international Object Application Awards. To obtain your Entry Kit: Call: +49-6173 -9558-50, Fax: +49-6173-9404-20, E-mail: LogOn@omg.org, Download it from the Web: http://www.ltt.de SOURCE: Roberto Zicari, Program Chair . ************************************************ 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.