adainfo@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU ("Michele L. Kee, AdaIC") (05/24/91)
Sixth Annual
Ada Software Engineering Education and Training
(ASEET) Symposium
Ada as an Educational Tool: The Time is Now
September 11-13, 1991
Institute for Defense Analyses
Alexandria, Virginia
Sponsored by:
Ada Software Engineering Education and Training (ASEET) Team
In the past year, there has been a strong emphasis to use Ada technology
for software development and maintenance. However, the underlying
foundation necessary to motivate integrating Ada into educational
environments is lacking. The Ada Software Engineering Education and
Training (ASEET) Team is sponsoring the Sixth Annual ASEET Symposium which
addresses the issues faced by academia, industry and DoD in providing Ada
software engineering education and training to meet tomorrow's needs.
This year's theme is "Ada as an Educational Tool: The Time is Now."
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The ASEET Team is honored to have Dr. Michael B. Feldman as their keynote
speaker this year. Dr. Feldman is Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The George Washington
University (GW). He is responsible for courses in data structures,
comparative programming languages, and translator design, and is known for
having introduced Ada to GW.
Prof. Feldman is the author of two Ada-related textbooks: "Data
Structures with Ada" and a freshman-level book "Ada: Problem Solving and
Program Design." He is also the author of the 1990 Software Engineering
Institute Curriculum Module, "Language and Systems Support for Concurrent
Programming."
Professor Feldman is Co-Chair of the national SIGAda Education Committee.
During the 1991-92 academic year, he is on sabbatical leave at the
University of Washington in Seattle.
LOCATION
All Symposium sessions will be held at the Institute for Defense Analyses,
2001 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA. A block of rooms has been
reserved at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, 5000 Seminary Rd., Alexandria, VA
22311. Please contact the hotel directly to make reservations.
TUTORIALS - WEDNESDAY, Sept 11
An Overview of Ada: A Software Engineering Approach
This tutorial presents an overview of Ada with an emphasis on the
aspects of the language which make it suitable for the development of
large scale software projects. The intent of this tutorial is to
introduce the attendee to the semantics of the language without delving
too deeply into the syntactic technicalities. Topics will include:
modularity; Ada packages; Ada subprograms and separate compilation.
Tasking and Generics
This tutorial is designed for students who have already been exposed
to basic Ada, and wish to learn more about tasking and generics. The
first half of this tutorial contains a review of tasking, and an
explanation of some of the "tricks and traps" of parallel processing. In
addition, it contains some paradigms that demonstrate the potential use of
tasking in real-time and distributed environments. The second half of the
tutorial discusses the pros and cons of generics, how to write a generic
unit, paramaterized generics and how to effectively teach generics.
Ada for the Program Manager
This tutorial presents Ada from the managerial perspective. The
presentations includes: why Ada; what Ada really is; common
misconceptions about Ada; and Ada technology assessment.
Object Oriented Design Analysis
This tutorial explains the upstream lifecycle activities of
determining requirements and mapping those requirements to a software
architecture. Topics of this session include: object-oriented
terminology; identifying objects, services, and attributes; specifying
requirements; defining design blueprints; and developing Ada PDL.
Resources
A short (1/2 hour) tutorial on Ada resources available and how to
access them. This no-cost tutorial is presented at various times during
the conference, and is presented compliments of the ASEET Team and the Ada
Information Clearinghouse.
AGENDA - THURSDAY, Sept 12
0730-1700 Registration
0830-0900 Welcome/Announcements
0900-1000 Keynote - Dr. Michael Feldman
1000-1030 Break
1030-1200 Panel: Building Ada Tools
Chair: Lt. Cmdr Lindy Moran
1200-1330 Lunch
1330-1500 Selected Paper
B. Hilden, Undergraduate Software Engineering Courses: Meeting the
Needs of Industry
R. Willis, Ada and Concurrency in the Classroom: Using Ada to Teach
Concurrency
M. Cook, Lessons Learned in the Ada Training Programs at Rockwell
1500-1530 Break
1530-1700 Panel: Impediments to Ada
Chair: Capt Joyce Jenkins
AGENDA - FRIDAY, Sept 13
0830-1000 Selected Papers
U. LeJeune, The Ada Apprentice
J. Beidler, A Sequence of Integrated Laboratory Assignments for
Freshmen
P. Bailes, Educational Significance of a Declarative Ada Dialect
1000-1030 Break
1030-1200 Panel: Ada in Major Programs
Chair: Mr. Leslie Dupaix
1200-1330 Lunch
1330-1500 Selected Paper
J. Nino, A Tool Supporting Programming in the Large for the
Introductory Software Development Courses
T. Hillburn, A Top-Down Toolbox Approach to Teaching the Ada
Programming Language
D. Martin, Using a Language Sensitive Editor and Ada in Computer
Science I-II
1500-1530 Break
1530-1700 Panel: Ada 9X vs Ada 83
Chair: Major Tom Croak
HOTEL RESERVATIONS
All reservations must be received by 11 August 1991. Reservations
requested after that date are subject to availability. Rooms may still be
available after the cut off date, but not necessarily at the conference
rate of $97 (includes tax). All reservations must be guaranteed by one
night deposit or major credit card. Reservations may be cancelled with no
penalty prior to 6:00 p.m. on the scheduled arrival date. Contact
Radisson Mark Plaza Hotel, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA 22311-1772,
(703) 845-1010 for reservations.
Those arriving at National Airport may take the Radisson Hotel courtesy
van to the hotel. Upon arrival at National, call the hotel and a van will
be dispatched. In addition, a van leaves the hotel for the airport every
hour on the hour.
SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Fees for the symposium are:
Before After
Aug 16 Aug 16
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Tutorial $50.00 $ 70.00
Symposium $30.00 $ 50.00
Tutorial + Symposium $75.00 $100.00
Registrations accompanied by payment of fees will be assured a copy of the
symposium proceedings and tutorial handouts.
For more information, contact:
Catherine W. McDonald
Sixth Annual ASEET Symposium
Institute for Defense Analyses
1801 N. Beauregard Street
Alexandria, VA 22311-1772
(703) 845-6626
E-mail: mcdonald@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu