ANN: Ada UK User Group Spring Conference

ANN: Ada UK User Group Spring Conference

[John Robinson]

A brochure and registration form for the Spring 2003 Ada UK/Embedded Systems
Club Conference can now be found at http://www.AdaUK.org.uk

The main conference is being held on April 9th, with two special events on
April 10th:

* An Ada 200Y Workshop with Tucker Taft, providing delegates with an
opportunity to offer feedback into the Ada 200Y process

* The inaugural DSP Forum conference

I would urge anyone with an interest in the status and future of the Ada
language to make best efforts to attend the conference and the Ada 200Y
Workshop.

Further details of presentations at these events follows.

For now, with best regards
John Robinson
Conference Director

The Ada UK conference itself offers the following presentations:

"Latest Trends in IDE Development"
Arnaud Charlet and Franco Gasperoni, ACT Europe

"Integrated Modular Avionics Application Development Case Study Using
VxWorks AE653 and GNAT"
Paul Parkinson, Wind River and Franco Gasperoni, ACT Europe

"Requirements: If you don't know where you are going you'll probably end up
somewhere else"
Glennan Carnie, Flight Refuelling Ltd (Digital Systems)

"Programmers Dozen: Thirteen Recommendations for Refactoring, Repairing and
Regaining Control of Your Code"
Kevlin Henney, Curbralan Ltd

"Industrial Strength Exception Freedom"
Dr Rod Chapman, Praxis Critical Systems Ltd

"Fixing Software Before It Breaks"
Tucker Taft, SofCheck Inc

"Abstract Interpretation Applied to Static Verification"
Dr Alain Deutsch, PolySpace Technologies

There are also two Panel Sessions on "Development Trends" and "Status and
Future of Static Code Analysis"

The Inaugural DSP Forum Conference offers the following presentations:

"Why use a real-time OS on DSP?"
Richard Blackburn, OSE

"StarFabric & PCI Express Advanced Switching - Migration to the Future"
Ian Cook, StarGen Inc

"FPGA's Offload DSP's for High-Performance Software Radio and Wireless
Communications"
Rodger Hosking, Pentek Inc

"RapidIO Technology and Example Architectures"
Phil Morris, Mercury Computer Systems

Details can be found on the following websites:

http://www.EmbeddedSystemsClub.com
http://www.AdaUK.org.uk
http://www.DSPForum.org.uk