Next MD/DC Local SIGAda meeting (McLean, VA, 8 May)

Next MD/DC Local SIGAda meeting (McLean, VA, 8 May)

[David Emery]

     To Members and Friends of DC SIGAda

Next Meeting:

     Thursday, 8 May 2003, 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social at 7:00
     P.M.) at the new MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia. DC SIGAda
     and Baltimore SIGAda will feature the following presentation:

Title:

     Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Cryptographic Source Code

Abstract:

     This talk describes a case study evaluating the efficacy of utilizing
the
     published, printed copy of cryptographic source codes (Pretty Good
     Privacy) to reproduce the electronic equivalent source code using
     Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solutions. Accuracy
     measurements of the resulting OCR outputs at various scanning
     resolutions and estimates of the additional effort required to correct
the
     output are provided for approximately 100 pages of training material.
     Correlation of these estimates against one of six volumes of the source
     code is provided.

     You're probably wondering where Ada comes in, I suppose - the whole
     thing is written in Ada...

     The presentation will include the design decisions made throughout the
     development. The rationale for these design decisions could be
     applicable and valuable to other software developments.

Presenter: Karl Nyberg

     Karl Nyberg is President of Grebyn Corporation and has been active in
     the Ada industry since the early 1980s. He was employed at Verdix
     Corporation (where he did network computer security in addition to
     work on the Ada side of the company), and has been consulting in Ada
     since 1985. Some of his more notable projects have been in the area of
     formal verification, expert systems and both operating systems and
     applications interfaces. He was a member of the Ada 9X Requirements
     Team at IDA, of the Federal Advisory Board on Ada, provided a special
     report to the SEI on Ada 9X topics and consulted for numerous Ada
     procurements and programs (SDI, MCTSSA, WIS Workstation, RCAS,
     and IADS). He is also widely recognized for his Ada publications,
     particularly the Annotated Ada (83) Reference Manual, which integrated
     the text of the ISO Ada Rapporteur Group's AIs into the text of the Ada
     83 standard. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
     and Engineering and his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and
     Computer Science, both from the Massachusetts Institute of
     Technology.

         Karl Nyberg
         Grebyn Corporation
         P. O. Box 47
         Sterling, VA 20167-0047
         +1-703-406-4161
         Email: karl@nyberg.net
         Home Page: http://karl.nyberg.net

Venue/Directions

     MITRE2
     Room 1N100 A/B
     The MITRE Corporation
     7515 Colshire Drive
     McLean, Virginia 22102-7508


Directions:

     MITRE2 is on Colshire Drive just inside the beltway south of Route
     123. Colshire Road is known as "Scotts Xing" on the North side of
     Route 123.

     Colshire Road is located on Route 123, East of I-495 and West of the
     Dulles Access Highway.

      o  Going Northbound on 123 from I-495, Colshire Road is located 2
         stoplights on the right.
      o  Going Southbound on 123 from the Dulles Access Highway,
         Colshire Road is located at the first stoplight on the left.

     Once on Colshire Road, MITRE2 is the building immediately in front of
     you. A tiny traffic circle is designed to take you to the front of
MITRE2
     and to MITRE1 (the Hayes Building). The directions below route you
     to the parking garage behind the MITRE2 Building. This is a logical
     left-hand turn at the traffic circle. After the turn, MITRE2 will be on
     your right.

     From I-495 south of Route 123 (Dolley Madison Boulevard):
         1. Take Exit 46B (McLean, Route 123);
         2. Go North onto Route 123;
         3. Turn right onto Colshire Drive (at second light);
         4. Take third right off of the small traffic circle;
            (a logical left hand turn);
         5. Proceed ~ 50 meters; Turn right into parking garage.
         6. Visitor Parking is located on Levels 2 and 3
            (the walkway to the lobby is on Parking Level 2)
         7. If door is locked, contact Security using phone by door
            (at entrance to MITRE2 from the Parking Garage)
         8. Check in with Security at Security desk in lobby
            (You will need a photo ID)

     From Dulles Access Toll Road or I-495 north of the Dulles Access
     Toll Road:
         1. Take the Dulles Airport Access and Toll Road to Exit 19;
            (From I-495, this is labeled "To East I-66");
         2. Take Exit 19A;
            (following signs to Route 123 South, Tysons Corner);
         3. Bear right onto Route 123 (towards Tysons Corner)
         4. Turn left onto Colshire Drive (at first light);
         5. Take third right off of the small traffic circle;
            (a logical left hand turn);
         6. Proceed ~ 50 meters; Turn right into parking garage.
         7. Visitor Parking is located on Levels 2 and 3
            (the walkway to the lobby is on Parking Level 2)
         8. If door is locked, contact Security using phone by door
            (at entrance to MITRE2 from the Parking Garage)
         9. Check in with Security at Security desk in lobby
            (You will need a photo ID)

     To obtain a map of MITRE2 Building and the MITRE Campus, visit =>
     http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Directions_MITRE2.html.

Slides From John Warther's and Gordon Uchenick's
Presentation Available

     At the Baltimore SIGAda meeting on 8 April 2003, John Warther and
     Gordon Uchenick gave an excellent presentation titled: High 
Reliability,
     Safety, and Secure Solutions for Embedded Developers. Slides from his
     presentation are available online as a Powerpoint Presentation at
     http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/200304_Gordon_Uchenick.ppt
     (ppt, 2.097 MB). The much requested jpg image of the X-38 Space
     Station Lifeboat With caption "When Ctrl-Alt-Delete is Not an Option"
     is available at: http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/X38.jpg JPG File
     (jpg, 159 KB).

Please put on your calendar:

   o 9 September 2003 - The next meeting of the ACM Baltimore SIGAda
     Chapter Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 9 September. We take a
     vacation during the summer. If you would like to speak, or would 
like to
     hear a presentation on a special topic, please let us know.

   o 7-11 December 2003 - SIGAda 2003 will be held in San Diego,
     California. Details at http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2003

DC SIGAda Home Page and Maillist

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Business:

     We will have light foods and refreshment at 7:00. The meeting begins at
     7:30 pm.

     Many thanks to all earlier participants, contributors, speakers,
advisors,
     and friends, who are involved in helping to produce and attend the
     meetings.

     Please forward this message to people who might be interested in
     attending. We welcome all new members as our attendance and interests
     grow.

     Consider registering for inclusion on our e-mail list. Registration
     instructions are provided on the DC SIGAda Web site.

Jeff Castellow, Chair, DC SIGAda