Ada 2005 presentation, Thu 18 Mar 2004 20:00, Ada-Belgium

Ada 2005 presentation, Thu 18 Mar 2004 20:00, Ada-Belgium

[Dirk Craeynest]

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   A d a - B e l g i u m   S p e c i a l   E v e n i n g   E v e n t

     Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce a technical presentation by
                       Pascal Leroy of IBM France

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                     Thursday, March 18, 2004, 20:00

              at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science
        Campus de la Plaine, building NO, Solvay room (5th floor)
           Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels

         (after the Ada-Belgium 2004 General Assembly at 19:00)

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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Announcement
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Ada-Belgium will hold its 11th annual General Assembly on Thursday,
March 18, 2004, 19:00, at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science,
Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels.  The official
convocation is distributed separately to members and is also
available on the Ada-Belgium web-server.

There will be refreshments and pizza for Ada-Belgium members at 18:15.
Please notify us if you are a current or new member and intend to
participate at this informal "pre-meeting".

"An Invitation to Ada 2005"
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At 20:00 the General Assembly will be followed by a technical
presentation plus Q&A, by Pascal Leroy from IBM France.

Abstract

Starting in 2000, the ISO technical group in charge of maintaining
the Ada language has been looking into possible changes for the next
revision of the standard, around 2005.  Based on the input from the
Ada community, it was felt that the revision was a great opportunity
for further enhancing Ada by integrating new programming practices,
e.g., in the OOP area; by providing new capabilities for embedded and
high-reliability applications; and by remedying annoyances encountered
during many years of usage of Ada 95.  This led to the decision to
make a substantive revision rather than a minor one.  This talk will
give a technical overview of the most important improvements that are
currently under consideration for inclusion in Ada 2005.

Speaker

Pascal Leroy is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM France, and the
chairman of the ISO Ada Rapporteur Group, the expert group in charge
of revising and maintaining the Ada standard.  He has more than 19
years of experience in Ada and has been involved in language design,
in compiler and tool development and in consultancy with very large
Ada projects, notably in the area of command and control systems.
Pascal holds degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des
T�l�communications in Paris, France.

More information

The Ada Issues Database of the Ada Rapporteur Group is available
on the Ada Conformity Assessment Authority's web site at
http://www.ada-auth.org/.

Participation
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Everyone interested is welcome at either or both parts of this meeting.
As usual, the event is free.

If you plan to attend the General Assembly or the Ada 2005 technical
presentation, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by e-mail
at the address below (please also specify if you intend to participate
at the informal "pre-meeting").  Although no formal registration is
required, this helps our preparations.

All Ada-Belgium members have a vote at the General Assembly, can add
items to the agenda, and can be a candidate for a position on the
Board (see the convocation for more details).

If you are a member but have not yet renewed your affiliation please
do so by paying the appropriate fee before the General Assembly (last
years' members also receive a printed request via normal mail).
If you are interested to become a new member, please register by
filling out the 2004 membership application form and by paying the
appropriate fee before the General Assembly.
After payment you will receive a receipt from our treasurer and you
Are considered a member of the organization for the year 2004 with all
member benefits.
Please settle this invoice a.s.a.p.  Early renewal ensures you receive
the full Ada-Belgium membership benefits (including the Ada-Europe
indirect membership benefits package).  See our web-pages for more
details.

As mentioned at earlier occasions, we have a limited stock of
documentation sets and Ada related CD-ROMs that were distributed
freely at previous events.  Most important are copies of the "Ada
and Software Engineering" double CD-ROM (ASE2), which was handed out
at the Ada-Europe'2001 conference in Leuven and is also on-line in
the Ada-Belgium archive.  These sets will be available on a first-come
first-serve basis at the General Assembly for current and new members.
Please inform me via e-mail if you are interested in receiving the free
documentation sets or CD-ROMs, so I can bring enough copies with me.

Directions
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This event takes place at the premises of the Universit� Libre de
Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, Campus de la
Plaine, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.  Exact location is building NO, 5th
floor, Solvay room.

An access plan to the Campus de la Plaine of the U.L.B. is available.
Parking facilities are at access no. 2 (parking Fraiteur, the closest)
or no. 4 (parking UAE, usually has free space). You can check on-line
via our site how to reach the Campus de la Plaine by car or by public
transport.

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels!

Dirk Craeynest
President Ada-Belgium
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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                            Acknowledgements

 We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
  activities: ACT Europe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven),
 Offis nv/sa - Aubay Group, and Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

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