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(Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.misc Subject: FOSDEM 2013 - Ada Developer Room - Sun 3 Feb 2013 - Brussels Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, KU Leuven Message-ID: Injection-Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="30d5a17ab4b88ea37ba0662440ed3650"; logging-data="17463"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18yhrqTcx4ViwEfPrn1C+Y8VujhCwlEhBg=" Summary: Another Ada day in Brussels! Keywords: Ada,open source,free software,technical presentations,FOSDEM Originator: dirk@vana.cs.kuleuven.be. (Dirk Craeynest) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w3iNsF9zubmS3w1ZJKKe4RZYUz4= Date: 2013-01-17T22:51:53+00:00 List-Id: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Belgium is pleased to announce its Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013 (Ada at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) Sunday 3 February 2013 Universit� Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Solbosch Campus, Room AW1.120 Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt Laan 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Organized in cooperation with Ada-Europe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Free and Open Source Developers' Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual event held in Brussels, Belgium, in February. The 2013 edition will take place on Saturday the 2nd and Sunday the 3th of February. Ada-Belgium has organized a series of presentations related to Ada, to be held in a dedicated Developer Room, on the second day of the event. Ada is a general-purpose language originally designed for safety- and mission-critical software engineering. It is used extensively in air traffic control, rail transportation, aerospace, nuclear, financial services and medical devices. The new Ada 2012 standard has been finalized and was published by ISO in December 2012. As with the Ada 1995 and Ada 2005 standards, the new Ada 2012 standard already starts to spread thanks to the advent of its first full implementation which is none other than the GNU Compiler Collection (GNAT). This DevRoom aims to present the possibilities offered by the Ada Language (object-oriented, multicore, embedded programming) as well as some of the many exciting projects using Ada. -------------------------------- Ada Developer Room Presentations (AW1.120, 74 seats) -------------------------------- 09:00-09:05 - Welcome by Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium Welcome to the Ada Developer Room at FOSDEM 2013, which is organized by Ada-Belgium in cooperation with Ada-Europe. Ada-Belgium and Ada-Europe are both non-profit organizations set to promote the use of Ada, and to disseminate the knowledge of it into academic, research and industrial establishments in Belgium and Europe, resp. Ada-Europe has member-organizations, such as Ada-Belgium, in various countries. More information on this event is available on the Ada-Belgium web-site (see URL above). 09:05-09:50 - Introduction to Ada for Beginning and Experienced Programmers by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog Overview of the main features of the Ada language, with special emphasis on those features that make it especially attractive for free software development. Ada is a feature-rich language, but what really makes Ada stand-out is that the features are nicely integrated towards serving the goals of software engineering. If you prefer to spend your time on designing elegant solutions rather than on low-level debugging, if you think that software should not fail, if you like to build programs from readily available components that you can trust, you should really consider Ada! 10:00-10:50 - Tools and Techniques for Higher Reliability Software by Philippe Waroquiers - Eurocontrol Eurocontrol provides pan-European Air Traffic Management services and uses various open source tools to ensure high software quality. We will discuss the use of gcc, valgrind, Ada and other tools for the detection of memory management bugs, race conditions and performance issues. We will cover Valgrind tools and new functionality in more detail. 11:00-11:50 - Ada on Android by Jos� F. Ruiz - AdaCore This presentation explains and demonstrates how Ada code can be embedded into Android devices. The talk will be an introduction to programming Android devices in Ada. The Android framework can be used to develop a part of the application (such as the user interface), but you can still benefit from Ada's reliability and advanced software engineering principles for the application logic (for example, control algorithms or image processing). The presentation will describe and demonstrate how easy it is to follow this development approach with Ada. 12:00-12:50 - Ada Tasking: Multithreading Made Easy by Ludovic Brenta - Debian Ada is one of very few programming languages that support multithreading as part of the language, as opposed to libraries. As a consequence, the multithreading facilities use simple, high-level abstractions: tasks and protected objects, rather than low-level library calls. Ada allows beginners and younger programmers to write multithreading programs. If you come prepared with an Ada compiler on your laptop, you can learn by doing in this interactive, hands-on session, and unleash the full power of your multicore processor! 13:00-14:00 - Lunch Break & Informal Discussion 14:00-14:50 - Ada Steaming Ahead: New 2012 Features by Jean-Pierre Rosen - Adalog Ada has a long record of being ahead of its time: Ada 83 had templates and multithreading, that appeared in other mainstream languages nearly 15 years later. The latest incarnation of the language, officially standardized by ISO in December 2012, continues with this tradition. From programming by contract to multicore support, with sophisticated memory management schemes, and more, Ada is steaming ahead of the crowd! 15:00-15:25 - Compile-Time Dimensionality Checking by Jos� F. Ruiz - AdaCore This talk presents the design and usage of a dimensionality checking system in Ada 2012. The purpose of dimensional analysis is to verify dimension consistency within physical relations, preventing errors such as the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter because one module used metric units and another one imperial units. The presentation will describe how to perform compile-time checks to verify the dimensional consistency of physical computations, allowing the user to define his own system of units. 15:30-15:55 - Telephone Reception Management with Alice on Pi by Kim Rostgaard Christensen - AdaHeads K/S Alice is an Open Source PBX management application aimed at hosted reception facilities. Taming wild PBXes and meeting the fuzzy real-time requirements of human impatience are some of the challenges you face, when you build such systems. Using the Asterisk PBX, the Ada language, and AWS - the Ada Web Server, we take on the modern web armed with HTML5, Dart and WebSockets, to make Alice a reliable, commercial service for customers who consider answering the phone mission critical. I will present some examples of how Ada has made the construction of Alice - if not a walk in the park, then at least - reasonably easy and painless. During the presentation I will have a live example of Alice answering phones on a Raspberry Pi in front of the audience. 16:00-16:50 - Simplifying the Use of Formal Methods by Valentine Reboul - AdaCore The Hi-Lite project - combining testing and verification with GNATTest and GNATProve. Verification activities mandated for critical software are essential to achieve the required level of confidence expected in life-critical or business-critical software. They are becoming increasingly costly as, over time, they require the development and maintenance of a large body of functional and robustness tests on larger and more complex applications. Formal program verification offers a way to reduce these costs while providing stronger guarantees than testing. Addressing verification activities with formal verification is supported by recent standards such as DO-178C for software development in avionics. In the Hi-Lite project, we pursue the integration of formal verification with testing for projects developed in C or Ada. We present an open source verification framework based on the GNAT compiler for Ada, which allows combining the results of testing and formal verification of Ada programs. We benefit from the recent update of the Ada language, which includes richer expressions and contracts on functions. We show that this combination of verification techniques can be as strong as testing alone, while allowing the user to choose the most cost-effective technique for every function. ------------------------------- More information on Ada DevRoom ------------------------------- Speakers bios, pointers to relevant information, links to the FOSDEM site, etc., are available on the Ada-Belgium site at . We invite you to attend some or all of the presentations: they will be given in English. Everybody interested can attend FOSDEM 2013; no registration is necessary. We hope to see many of you there! Dirk Craeynest Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.be (for Ada-Belgium/-Europe/SIGAda/WG9 mail) (V20130117.1)