Ada at Barco Avionics, Tue 12 Jun 19:45, Ada-Belgium

Ada at Barco Avionics, Tue 12 Jun 19:45, 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 our next event:

                     a technical presentation by
              Ludovic Brenta of Barco Avionics, Belgium

              A d a   a t   B a r c o   A v i o n i c s :

          h i s t o r y ,   c o d i n g   s t a n d a r d s ,

                         a n d   p r o d u c t s

                 Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 19:45-21:45

            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 2007 General Assembly at 18:45)

   <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 14th annual General Assembly on Tuesday,
June 12, 2007, at the U.L.B., Department of Computer Science,
Boulevard du Triomphe / Triomflaan, B-1050 Brussels, at 18:45. The
official convocation is available, also in PDF format, and is sent via
postal mail to all members.

At 19:45 the General Assembly will be followed by a technical
presentation on "Ada at Barco Avionics: history, coding standards, and
products", by Ludovic Brenta from Barco Avionics, Belgium.

Abstract
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The presentation will cover:
  * an explanation of what Barco Avionics's products are; this can be
    in the form of flyers and slides, or Ludovic might even bring a
    couple of actual avionics units to show them;
  * Barco Avionics's history with Ada;
  * the Ada coding standards that Ludovic wrote in 2005 taking into
    account the unique constraints imposed by avionics certification
    requirements.

Speaker
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Ludovic Brenta has been programming computers on various operating
systems and languages since 1990. He graduated from INSA Lyon in 1996
with a diploma in Production Engineering. Having written too many bugs
in other languages, he became interested in Ada in 2001 and started
learning the language by himself. In 2003, he volunteered to maintain
the Ada packages in Debian GNU/Linux, and became an official Debian
Developer in 2006. Currently, his day job is at Barco Avionics, where
he participates in the development of safety-critical embedded
software, using Ada. Ludovic has been living in Brussels, Belgium,
since 1998.

Ludovic's GPG key fingerprint is
2349 9FA0 AE0D E2BA 9E18 560D C7D9 3025 9DFF AAD4

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

If you plan to attend the General Assembly or the technical
presentation, we would appreciate it if you could inform us by e-mail.
Although no formal registration is required, this helps our
preparations.

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) or no. 4
(parking UAE, the closest, usually has free space). You can check
on-line 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.be

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                           Acknowledgements

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

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