Brosgol@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (06/28/86)
As all of you are aware by now, the Ada event of the summer is less than
a month away. I am of course referring to the ACM SIGAda Meeting in
Pittsburgh, July 23-25 (preceded by a Professional Development Seminar
on July 22). Registration information was sent out on info-ada last week
by the local arrangements coordinator, Suzanne Broughton. Below is the
latest version of the agenda of technical sessions to be held at the meeting.
I encourage you to attend. Thanks to the generosity of the host organizations
-- Tartan Labs, Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh High Technology
Council, and Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp. -- there is no registration
fee for the meeting. On the other hand, ACM wants to make some money, so
there is a nominal charge for the Professional Development Seminar.
Among the expected highlights of the meeting:
* Briefings by the Software Engineering Institute
* Policy updates from the Ada Joint Program Office
* Working group and birds-of-a-feather sessions to match almost anyone's
taste -- including a new working group on commercial applications of Ada,
and another working group focusing on numeric libraries
So, if you want to get the latest news on who's doing what to whom in Ada,
then come to the Pittsburgh SIGAda meeting to find out. Besides,
it will give you the opportunity to savor a local delicacy, Iron City beer.
-Ben Brosgol, SIGAda Vice Chair for Meetings and Conferences
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AGENDA FOR JULY 1986 SIGADA -- Version as of 27 June 1986
TUESDAY, JULY 22
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Professional Development Seminars - Putnam Texel, Texel&Co
(Registration Fee required for attendance)
Morning:
"Ada In Retrospect: What Have We Learned?" - Robert Dewar, NYU
Afternoon:
"Methodology for Reusable Components" - Ron McCain, IBM
"Reusable Components in Ada" - Mark Gerhardt, Infotec
9:00 am - 8:30 pm Users Committee - Numerics Working Group
(Gil Myers, NOSC)
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Extended Executive Committee - Anthony Gargaro, CSC
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm "VAX Ada Based Cross Compilers"
(Dave Quigley, Digital Equipment Corp.)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23
8:30 am - 9:00 am Introductions - Ben Brosgol, Alsys
Welcome from Host Organizations
Opening Remarks - John Manley, SEI
9:00 am - 10:00 am Policy (I) - Maretta Holden, Boeing
"Report from the Ada Joint Program Office"
Jinny Castor, AJPO
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - noon Policy (II) - M. Holden, Boeing
Briefings from the Services
noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Education - Putnam Texel, Texel&Co.
"Education for Software Engineering"
Norman Gibbs, Software Engineering Institute
"Ada Education Study"
Speaker from Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
"Activities of the Ada Software Engineering Engineering and Training Team"
Maj. Doug Samuels, Keesler AFB
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Users (I) - Bryce Bardin, Hughes
"Implementation of a Command and Control System in Ada"
H. Alan Griesemer, BDM Management Services
"In Search of the Elusive Dynamic String Type"
Douglas Arndt, Dalmo Victor SINGER
"Performance Issues Working Group - Benchmark Results"
Jon Squire, Westinghouse
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner Break
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Software Engineering Institute - Ada Project Briefings
"Ada Project / Workstation" - Peter Feiler
"Ada Project / Environment" - Nelson Weiderman
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Software Engineering Institute - Briefings on Other Topics
"Reuse" - Bob Holibaugh
"Masters of Software Engineering Curriculum" - Gary Ford
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Users Committee - Commercial Ada Users WG
(Dave Dikel, IDA Consultant)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Environment Committee - CAIS Implementors WG
(Clyde Roby, IDA)
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Development Methodology Committee - Software Development
Standards and Ada Working Group (SDSAWG)
(Alton Brintzenhoff, SYSCON)
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Users Committee - Ada Language Issues WG
(Dave Smith, Hughes)
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Education Committee Birds-of-a-Feather Session
"Ada in the College and University Environment"
Carl Brandon, Vermont Technical College
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Users Committee - Numerics Working Group
(Gil Myers, NOSC)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Environment Committee - Distributed Access WG
(Rik Palo, DEC)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Alsys Ada Compiler Users Group
(Peter Hacker, ATECH)
THURSDAY, JULY 24
8:30 am - 10:00 am Environment - Ann Reedy, PRC
"ForAda - a Fortran to Ada Translator" -
Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Stanford Univ. and SRI International
Panel: The Role of Translators in an Ada Environment
Ann Reedy (PRC), Moderator
Bob Knapper (IDA)
Todd Kueny (Lexeme)
Linda Shanbeck (QTC)
Dave McGonagle (GE)
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - noon Implementation - Bob Morgan, Mass. Computer Associates
"Benchmarking Ada Efficiency" - Mitch Gart, Alsys
"Improvements to DIANA" - Kathryn McKinley, Intermetrics
"Implementing Ada for RISC and Vectorizing Machines" - Bill Wulf, Tartan
Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Standards I - Robert Eachus, Stratus
"Review of Ada Language Maintenance Committee Decisions"
Robert Dewar, NYU
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Ada Experts Panel - Gerry Fisher, IBM Research
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Development Methodology - Alton Brintzenhoff, Syscon
"STARS Methodology: Ada PDL Demonstration Project, An Overview"
Cammie Donaldson, Software Productivity Solutions
"Software Design Using Ada PDL, Annotated Ada (ANNA), and the Buhr
Methodology in a DOD-STD-2167 Context"
Christopher Byrnes, Mitre
"Software Development Experiences with DOD-STD-2167"
Steve Pincus, Lockheed
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner Break
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Local SIGAda Representatives Dinner - Hal Hart, TRW
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Users Committee - Performance Issues WG
(Jon Squire, Westinghouse)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ALS Users Group (June Mohns, Softech)
"A Forum: The ALS Toolkit - Evolution and Direction"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm VADS Users Meeting (Terri Tavernaris, Verdix)
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Development Methodology Comm. Birds of a Feather Session
(Alton Brintzenhoff, SYSCON)
"The Evolution of the Vienna Development Method (VDM) and Its Application
to Software Engineering in the Ada Field and Ada Compiler Development"
Ole Oest, DDC International A/S
"The Adaptation of Modular Approach for Systems Construction, Operation
and Testing (MASCOT) to the Ada Programming Language"
Ken Jackson, Systems Designers Scientific
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Users Committee - Ada Run-Time Environment WG
(Mike Kamrad, Honeywell)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Environment Committee - APSE Builders WG
(Stowe Boyd, TASC)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm Telesoft Users Group (Mary Jane Stoughton, Textron)
FRIDAY, JULY 25
8:30 am - 9:00 am Formal Methods - Richard Platek, Odyssey Research Assoc.
"A Proof Rule for Ada Loops and User Defined Exceptions"
Ryan Stansifer, Purdue University
9:00 am - 10:00 am Standards (II) - Robert Eachus, Stratus
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - noon Users (II) - Bryce Bardin, Hughes
"Implementation of a Data Management System for Military Applications"
Mitchell L. Springer and Ronald L. Lawson, Magnavox
"An Automated Programmer for Ada Real-Time Software"
Larry L. Lehman, Integrated Systems
(Third speaker or panel to be named later)
noon - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Informal Reports - Anthony Gargaro, CSC
"Cognitive Approach to Software Development: the PRODOC Environment
and Associated Methodology"
Joseph M. Scandura, Univ. of Pennsylvania
"SIGAda Extended Executive Committee Report"
David Emery, Siemens
Additional reports may be presented