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Subject: Jan. 86 USENIX Sessions on Ada & CAIS with UNIX
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The 1986 Winter USENIX Technical Conference, January 15-17, Denver,
CO., will have a significant Ada (and some CAIS) content.  In 
addition, the non-Ada agenda includes several windowing-environment 
sessions related to user-interface trends which are likely to become 
part of Ada environments.  

ADA (& CAIS) ACTIVITIES:

Wed., Jan 15:  A tutorial on Ada by Putnam P. Texel

Fri., Jan 17:  Ada and the UNIX System.  C. Wetherell, AT&T, Chair.

     Preliminary Program:

        Keynote Address....................To be announced
        Real-time demonstration............To be announced
        UNIX, C and Ada....................Herman Fischer, Mark V
        Managing separate compilation in
          the AT&T Ada Translator System...Elsesser/Safran/Tieger, AT&T 
        Revision Control Tools and the Ada
          Program Library..................G.W. Schefstrom, TeleLOGIC
        UNIX System and CAIS...............Rebecca Bowerman, Mitre
        SVID as an Interim Basis for CAIS..Herman Fischer, Mark V
        Implemented Curses in Ada..........Karl Nyberg, Verdix
        An Overview of the Ada Shell.......L. & M. Campbell, NCR
        Targeting Ada to 68000/UNIX........Mitchell Gart, Alsys

RELATED ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITIES:

These activities discuss software which probably relates to directions 
for Ada-supportive environments: 

Wed., Jan 15:  Windowing Environments and UNIX.  S. Leffler, Lucasfilm, Chair.

This section includes hardware and hardware issues, applications 
discussions, and in the afternoon, systems and system issues.  Some of 
the most relevant titles from the afternoon section include (titles 
abbreviated): 

        FLAMINGO [a user-interface system]..Smith & Anderson, CMU
        Proposal for Interwindow Communic...D. P. Gill, Exxon
        Problems Implem. of Windowing.......Gettys & Scheifler, MIT
        Distributed & Extensible Windowing..James Gosling, Sun

Thurs., Jan 16: Windowing systems Implementations, D. Rosenthal, Sun.
        (this person was co-chair of GKS review, assoc. Director of ITC
        at CMU, and a developer of the "Andrew" windowing system)

INFORMATION/REGISTRATION:

Contact USENIX Conference Office, PO Box 385, Sunset Beach, CA 90742,
(213) 592-1381, (213) 592-3243