CFCSE-IC News Briefs, W/E December 5, 1997

CFCSE-IC News Briefs, W/E December 5, 1997

[CSEIC]

Center for Computer Systems Engineering News Briefs
Week Ending:  December 5, 1997

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ADA 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.  Two 
such courseware offerings, developed by Dr. Bo Sanden of George Mason 
University, Fairfax, VA, are as follows: 

1.  "A Course in Real-time Software Design Based on Ada 95"

The course starts with an overview of the Ada 95 syntax for tasks and 
protected units. The rest of the material shows how to design concurrent 
software. The emphasis is on practical, real-time applications. The 
examples go far beyond those textbook examples commonly used to 
illustrate syntactical features and issues such as mutual exclusion and 
deadlock. 

URL:  http://www.asset.com/WSRD/abstracts/ABSTRACT_825.html

2.  "An Ada-based foundation course for a graduate information-systems 
program"

This course is intended as a foundation course in programming for 
students entering a graduate Information-Systems program. It is primarily 
intended for students with little or no programming experience, 
particularly in a Pascal-style language. In this course, Ada replaces 
Pascal as a more modern and also more practically useful language. 

URL:  http://www.asset.com/WSRD/abstracts/ABSTRACT_826.html

For a comprehensive list of such Ada Courseware, visit the Education & 
Training page on the AdaIC Web site 
(http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC) and click on "AJPO Courseware 
Information".

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE
Topic:  Software Engineering

The 11th Conference on Software Engineering, Education and Training 
(CSEET) will be held in Atlanta 23-25 February 1998.

Details can be found on the CSEET web site at:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/conferences/CSEET98/cseet.htm


SOURCE:  Bob Waters:  mailto:watersr@cc.gatech.edu

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NEW DOCUMENT ON THE DII COE WEB SITE
Topic:  DII, COE

New to the CFCSE-IC DII COE Web site is the "I&RTS Review and Assessment - 
11/4/97".  This document assesses the current I&RTS specification as to 
its completeness, mission-effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and the 
probability of success from an internal DoD and external commercial 
acceptance perspective.

URL:  http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/coe/docs/irts/review/

SOURCE:  CFCSE-IC

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DII COE LISTSERV HELPING WITH Q & A
Topic:  DII, COE

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has developed a Defense Information Infrastructure (DII) Common Operating 
Environment (COE) Listserv.  The DII COE Listserv provides an unmoderated 
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SOURCE:  CFCSE-IC

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