Papers needed for Ada session at ELECTRO94

Papers needed for Ada session at ELECTRO94

[Gregory Aharonian]

    In May of 1994, the IEEE is holding its annual ELECTRO conference in
Boston.  The ELECTRO conference and trade show is targeted towards the
electronic design communb[;[ity (think of ferrite cores, SMD components,
waveflow soldering, etcy, and traditional has been hardware oriented,
hardware at the component level.  I have been going for many years, and
its a nice event.
    Over the years, more and more software has creeped into the show,
software both for hardware design and component assembly, and also software
for applications design and embedded programming.  At this year's
conference, about half of the show will deal with software, the other
half dealing with hardware.
    There is currently a call of papers and session proposals that closes
mid-September.  An Ada session here would be a good chance to introduce
Ada to people who probably have never been exposed to the language, but
who have the needs that Ada addresses.
    I am interested in organizing an Ada session, and need about six 
abstract to papers to be presented at the conference.  Papers on using
Ada for embedded systems, for automatic testing, for software development,
Ada and VHDL, one on reuse, a general introduction for hardware types,
so some success story from some DoD hardware design effort - all would
make a good suite of papers to present.

    Now the ELECTRO audience is not the type of audience one would find
at a software engineering show where people are looking for software
technologies.  Presenting Ada at ELECTRO is more of the raw missionary
work, probably with little immediate return to the people presenting
papers on companies having booths.  But it is at shows like ELECTRO
where the battle for Ada's future will be won or lost.  Too much time
is spent by Ada people preaching to the choir at Tri-Ada.  What is
needed is to get out to the unconverted, the new markets where long term
sales can be high.

    I am looking for people willing to give an Ada paper at ELECTRO
next May.  Given the number of Ada people in the Boston area (how about
someone from Mitre, Raytheon, Draper, Alsys) and some others, we should
be able to put together a nice session.

    So if you are interested, please contact me by email and let me
know what you are interested in presenting.  I'll coordinate sending 
the outlines to the ELECTRO organizers.
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 Greg Aharonian
 Source Translation & Optimization
 P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178