fischer@hermix.UUCP (11/10/85)
The 1986 Winter USENIX Technical Conference, January 15-17, Denver,
CO., will have a significant Ada (and some CAIS) content. In
addition, the non-Ada agenda includes several windowing-environment
sessions related to user-interface trends which are likely to become
part of Ada environments.
ADA (& CAIS) ACTIVITIES:
Wed., Jan 15: A tutorial on Ada by Putnam P. Texel
Fri., Jan 17: Ada and the UNIX System. C. Wetherell, AT&T, Chair.
Preliminary Program:
Keynote Address....................To be announced
Real-time demonstration............To be announced
UNIX, C and Ada....................Herman Fischer, Mark V
Managing separate compilation in
the AT&T Ada Translator System...Elsesser/Safran/Tieger, AT&T
Revision Control Tools and the Ada
Program Library..................G.W. Schefstrom, TeleLOGIC
UNIX System and CAIS...............Rebecca Bowerman, Mitre
SVID as an Interim Basis for CAIS..Herman Fischer, Mark V
Implemented Curses in Ada..........Karl Nyberg, Verdix
An Overview of the Ada Shell.......L. & M. Campbell, NCR
Targeting Ada to 68000/UNIX........Mitchell Gart, Alsys
RELATED ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITIES:
These activities discuss software which probably relates to directions
for Ada-supportive environments:
Wed., Jan 15: Windowing Environments and UNIX. S. Leffler, Lucasfilm, Chair.
This section includes hardware and hardware issues, applications
discussions, and in the afternoon, systems and system issues. Some of
the most relevant titles from the afternoon section include (titles
abbreviated):
FLAMINGO [a user-interface system]..Smith & Anderson, CMU
Proposal for Interwindow Communic...D. P. Gill, Exxon
Problems Implem. of Windowing.......Gettys & Scheifler, MIT
Distributed & Extensible Windowing..James Gosling, Sun
Thurs., Jan 16: Windowing systems Implementations, D. Rosenthal, Sun.
(this person was co-chair of GKS review, assoc. Director of ITC
at CMU, and a developer of the "Andrew" windowing system)
INFORMATION/REGISTRATION:
Contact USENIX Conference Office, PO Box 385, Sunset Beach, CA 90742,
(213) 592-1381, (213) 592-3243