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: 103376,b005456f2e66ff1d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-13 08:58:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!isdnet!surfnet.nl!naxos.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A new market in which Ada can play? Date: 13 Jun 2001 17:58:02 +0200 Organization: A poorly-maintained Debian GNU/Linux InterNetNews site Message-ID: <9g82ia$4tu$1@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> References: <9g7pos$m61$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 992447885 9055 134.58.127.12 (13 Jun 2001 15:58:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:58:05 +0000 (UTC) Summary: Ada is already playing there! Cache-Post-Path: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!unknown@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8666 Date: 2001-06-13T17:58:02+02:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > For those interested in promoting Ada and finding new markets in which > Ada can be a player, here's an emerging opportunity: > > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9331678324.html > > Since all if this is a brand new horizon (Cable TV applications) [...] It might be interesting to check out the following URL: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/AE2001/program.html#speak and read the second abstract. As you can see there, using Ada in Cable TV applications is not completely new: the abstract at the URL above is about the keynote presentation that Pascal Heraud from CANAL+ Technologies gave at the recent Ada-Europe'2001 conference in Leuven 4 weeks ago, entitled: "Using Ada in Interactive Digital Television Systems" CANAL+ has been using Ada in their server-side components since quite some time. People from that company are reading comp.lang.ada (hi Thierry!) and might be tempted to comment on the news Marin refers to? It would of course be great if Ada would be used by other companies in this market and it could be very valuable in the TV set-top boxes too. The full paper of the above-mentioned keynote presentation is printed in the Ada-Europe'2001 conference proceedings (together with the other 4 invited papers and the 27 technical papers). The reference is: Dirk Craeynest and Alfred Strohmeier (Eds.): Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2001: Proceedings 6th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies Leuven, Belgium, May 2001 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2043 Springer-Verlag, 2001 ISBN 3-540-42123-8 These proceedings are available from every good bookshop, or can be ordered directly from Springer: http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-42123-8 They are also available on-line on Springer's LINK website: http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2043.htm The table of contents and all abstracts are freely readable on-line, but access to the copyrighted full papers is paying. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2001 Program Co-Chair PS: Note that, except for being co-editor of these proceedings, I have no bindings with Springer, and have no financial benefit in the sale of this book. -- Dirk Craeynest | Email Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (AE'2001) Offis - Aubay Group | Dirk.Craeynest@offis.be (work) | Ada-Belgium Weiveldlaan 41/32 | Phone +32(2)725.40.25 | Ada-Europe B-1930 Zaventem | +32(2)729.97.36 (work) | ACM SIGAda Belgium | Fax +32(2)725.40.12 | Team Ada *** Intl. Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2002 *** June 17-21, 2002, Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org/ ***