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Newsletter Information

From the Editor's Desk 3

Editorial Policy 4

Key Contacts 6

SIGAda 2010 Conference - Call for Technical Contributions 9

2009 SIGAda Awards - Awarded at SIGAda 2009 in St. Petersburg, Florida on November 3rd - John W. McCormick 11

Ada for Software Engineers, Second Edition with Ada 2005 by Mordechai Ben-Ari, Book Review by John W. McCormick 14

Papers of the 14th International Real-Time Ada Workshop (IRTAW-14) 15 Introduction

Supporting Execution on Multiprocessor Platforms - A. Burns and A.J. Wellings 16

Language Vulnerabilities - Let's not forget Concurrency - A. Burns and A.J. Wellings 26

Execution-time control for interrupt handling - Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, Amund Skavhaug 33

Temporal Isolation with the Ravenscar Profile and Ada 2005 - Enrico Mezzetti and Marco Panunzio and Tullio Vardanega 45

Named Memory Pool for Ada - Luke Wong, Stephen Michell, and Brad Moore 55

Realtime Paradigms Needed Post Ada 2005 - Stephen Michell, Luke Wong, and Brad Moore 62

Execution time monitoring and interrupt handlers, Position statement - Mario Aldea Rivas and Michael González Harbour 68

Incorporating Operating Modes to an Ada Real-Time Framework - Jorge Real and Alfons Crespo 73

Towards a Ravenscar Extension for Multi-Processor Systems - Jose F. Ruiz 86

Support for a real-time transactional model in distributed Ada - Héctor Pérez Tijero, J. Javier Gutiérrez, and Michael G. Harbour 91

User-Defined Clocks Is it the right time now? - A.J. Wellings and A. Burns 104

Generalizing the EDF Scheduling Support in Ada 2005 - A.J Wellings and A. Burns 116

Ada and cc-NUMA Architectures: What can be achieved with Ada 2005? - A.J. Wellings, A. H Malik, N.C. Audsley and A. Burns 125

Providing Additional Real-Time Capability and Flexibility for Ada 2005 - Rod White 135

Multiprocessor Systems: Session Summary - A. Burns and A.J. Wellings 147

Language and Distribution Issues: Session Summary - Tullio Vardanega, Michael González-Harbour, and Luís Miguel Pinho 152

Conclusions - Stephen Michell and Jorge Real 162

Ada Europe Conference 2010 165 (1.3 MBytes)

NSF CISE sponsored "Broader Impacts for Research and Discovery Summit" — and — ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010) 167

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