Dear Colleague,
Please find enclosed the electronic brochure for the 13th Annual National Conference on Ada Technology to be held in Valley Forge Pennsylvania from 13-16 March 1995. The conference theme is Ada on the Information Superhighway. Keynote speakers include:
PLEASE NOTE CHANGES FROM THE PRINTED ANCOAT'95 BROCHURE =>
MONDAY, March 13, 1995
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| Half Day: |
| TUTORIALS 3. Safety Critical Applications |
| Using Ada |
8:00am - 5:00pm | Full Day: 4. Group Support Systems |
| 1. Ada95 5. Legacy Systems |
| 2. The World Wide Web 6. DoD/Commercial Software |
| Standards |
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TUESDAY, March 14, 1995
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8:30am - 10:00am | Opening Session - Welcome |
| Keynote Address: Hon. Emmett Paige, Jr. |
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10:30am - 12 Noon | Ada Resources on the Information Superhighway Panel |
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12 Noon - 1:30pm | Luncheon, Speaker: Lt Gen Albert J. Edmonds, USAF |
| Director, Defense Information Systems Agency |
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2:00pm - 3:30pm | Ada95 Panel |The Information Superhighway|
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3:45pm - 5:15pm | Ada95 | Student Papers |
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7:00pm - 10:00pm | Vendor Hospitality Suites |
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WEDNESDAY, March 15, 1995
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8:30am - 10:00am | Opening Session - Keynote Address: Kenneth Swimm, |
| President, Management and Data Systems, Martin Marietta |
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10:30am - 12 Noon | Information Superhighway | Software Reuse |
| in Education Panel | |
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12 Noon - 1:30pm | Luncheon, Speaker: Watts Humphrey, |
| SEI Fellow, Software Engineering Institute |
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2:00pm - 3:30pm | Education I: | Ada-based Applications |
| Language Comparisons | |
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3:45pm - 5:15pm | Education II: OO Design |Ada and Software Engineering|
| and Software Engineering |for Commercial Applications |
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6:00pm - 10:00pm | Special Event: Lily Langtry's |
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THURSDAY, March 16, 1995
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8:30am - 10:00am | Commercial Use of Ada Panel |
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10:15am - 11:45am | Best Commercial Practices Panel |
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12 Noon - 1:00pm | Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Wald, |
| Program Manager for Computers, Office of Naval Research |
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| Best Paper Awards |
| Closing Remarks: Christine Braun, |
| GTE Information Systems |
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I am pleased to invite you to the Thirteenth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology. The conference will be held March 13-16, 1995 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, at the Sheraton Valley Forge Hotel. This year's theme is Ada on the Information Superhighway. The planned tutorials, keynote addresses, panels, and the selected papers will focus on the key role of Ada and software engineering technology in realizing the vision of the information age.
We've planned an exciting program with recognized experts from industry, academia, and government leading our exploration of timely technologies and challenges. This is traditionally a collegial, interactive, and involving conference. A balanced mix of professionals from industry, academia, and government ensures a wide-ranging and stimulating perspective. Sessions especially focused on the interests of educators and students encourage the continuing development of your software professionals. Sessions on leading- edge technology and today's business challenges benefit even the most seasoned professionals. Please take a close look at the enclosed "Conference at a Glance;" we're sure you'll find a lot to interest you.
So make your plans to join us for a stimulating week in Valley Forge. And while you're in the area, take the opportunity to visit the many local historic sites and tourist attractions. We look forward to seeing you there!
Sincerely,
Sponsored by: ANCOST, Inc.
With Participation by:
Treasurer:
MS. SUSAN MARKEL, TRW
Secretary:
DR. MURRAY KIRCH, Stockton College of New Jersey
President-Elect:
DR. MARTIN L. BARRETT, East Tennessee State University
Immediate Past-President:
DR. JAMES HOOPER, Marshall University
Academic Host Chair:
DR. M. SUSAN RICHMAN, Penn State University, Harrisburg
Academic Outreach/Student Papers:
DR. MARTIN BARRETT, East Tennessee State University
Budget Committee Chair:
MR. MICHAEL SAPENTER, Telos Federal Systems
Policies, Procedures & By-Laws Chair:
MS. DEE GRAUMANN, GDE Systems, Inc.
Panels Chair:
MR. CURRIE COLKET, U.S. Navy
Promotion Chair:
MR. STEVE LAZEROWICH, Empress Software, Inc.
Technical Program Chair:
DR. AKHTAR LODGHER, Marshall University
Tutorial Chair:
MR. JERRY MUNGLE, Nichols Processing Group
MR. MIGUEL A. CARRIO, JR., MTM Engineering
MR. RONALD G. DAMER, Software Productivity Consortium
MS. MICHELE DICKEY, Rational
MR. GEORGE HARRISON, Norfolk State University
MR. WILLIAM LOFTUS, WPL Laboratories, Inc.
DR. JOSEPH MONROE, North Carolina A&T State University
DR. EMMANUEL OMOJOKUN, Virginia State University
MR. GEORGE ROMANSKI, Thompson Software Products
Conference Director:
MS. MARJORIE Y. RISINGER, CMP, Rosenberg & Risinger
Penn State University, Harrisburg
Luncheon Keynote Address: 12 Noon - 1:30pm
Information Superhighway Papers: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Chairperson: Mr. Carrington Stewart, LBJ Space Center, Houston, TX
Software Reuse: 10:30am - 12 Noon
Chairperson: Ms. Susan Markel, TRW Corporation
Best Commercial Practices Panel: 10:15 am - 11:45am
Moderator: Dr. Larry Druffel, Director, Software Engineering Institute
See Panels
Keynote Address: 12:00am - 1:00pm
This panel will address the key changes to Ada83 incorporated by Ada95, the status of the Ada95 standardization process, early usage experience of Ada95 using GNAT, and the expected availability of commercial Ada95 validated compilers.
Impact of the Information Superhighway on Education Panel
Yet the Information Superhighway is not omnipresent at many schools.
Schools often view access to the Internet as a potentially large cost in
times of tight budgets and a source of friction with parents as students
encounter nonprescribed material. Far more students access the network from
home than from school. Currently, most undergraduates have not had access to
the Internet before college. Students who have had access to the Internet
before college, view it as liberating, often shaping career goals.
Issues the panel will address include:
Commercial Use of Ada
These questions will be posed to panelists from various industries to
explore how Ada is used at particular companies, and in the commercial world
as a whole.
The industries represented will include commercial aircraft
manufacturers, where software quality and large scale integration of many
subsystems are highly critical; the air traffic management systems industry,
where re-use and re-configuration of software provides major commercial
advantages; the nuclear power industry has traditionally been very
conservative, yet Ada plays a role in the critical control systems.
The medical instrumentation, transportation and telecommunications
industries have used Ada to some extent. What were the factors that limited
the growth of Ada in these industries? Size, complexity, economics,
tradition...?
The Commercial Use of Ada will also be explored through the experiences
of a commercial Ada Educator. Why do people come to learn Ada? What do they
expect from Ada courses? What are their expectations for the future from
Ada95?
Best Commercial Practices
The DSB recommendations were based on an underlying vision for the
technical and business environment in which DoD will operate. The panel
chair will describe this vision, highlight relevant recommendations, and
introduce issues that need to be considered in the implementation. Panel
members from government and industry will expand on specific issues.
Participants from the audience will be encouraged to raise additional
questions for the panel to consider.
The DSB based its recommendations on best commercial practices. The
task force used an analysis prepared by the Software Engineering Institute
that compared the advantages and disadvantages of DoD practices with those of
best commercial practice. Recognizing that DoD has special constraints and
needs, the intent was to recommend adoption of those best commercial
practices that are appropriate. Two common misunderstandings of the DSB
report have been that (a) the DSB believes all commercial practices are
superior to those of DoD and (b) all commercial software organizations are
consistent with best practices. The DSB asserted that DoD practices are not
consistent with best commercial practices and in many cases those best
commercial practices are superior to those of DoD. The DSB made no attempt
to assess the breadth of adoption of best practices commercially.
The recommendations are also based on the realization that although DoD
is a big customer, it is not a dominant force in the software marketplace.
As a big customer, DoD can and does have influence. But like other
customers, DoD must formulate its business strategy to take advantage of the
marketplace. DoD must have access to the very best technology, and that is
often available commercially. In many cases, the DoD needs are congruent
with commercial needs. Time to market is one example. At the same time, the
DoD has special needs and must either influence the marketplace or contract
separately. Contracting separately is no longer an affordable option in most
cases.
The vision the DSB tried to communicate is for DoD to recognize that
many of its requirements can be met by integrating commercially available
software (COTS) into its systems. To do so requires that the DoD manage its
systems as product lines. Those product lines should be based on well-
defined software architectures with open interfaces that exploit commercial
standards.This vision requires significant changes in the approach to
acquisition of systems that depend on software. While many of the
recommendations can be adopted immediately, others will require more time
before the vision will be realized.
Ada95 - Michael Kamrad, Computing Devices International
This tutorial is designed for students and practioners already knowledgeable
of Ada83. New Ada95 concepts, additions, and enhancements will be presented.
Some of the key Ada95 topics to be covered are: object-oriented programming
(OOP), real-time scheduling enhancements, increased support for database/MIS
applications, security-related enhancements, etc. An overview of each of the
six Ada95 annexes will be provided.
The World Wide Web - Bob Munck, Unisys Corporation
This tutorial will first examine the base technology of the Web, including the
following: Web Clients and Servers; Universal Reference Locators (URLs);
HyperText Transmission Protocol (http); HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and
its relationship to SGML; other media supported (embedded images, sounds, and
video); Image Maps, Forms, Server-side and Client-side procedures; and ftp,
gopher, archie, wais and telnet queries.
The tutorial will also address the principles of building a good hypertext or
hypermedia, including the following: attractive, readable page; helping the
reader avoid "getting lost;" and tables of contents, indices, threads and
search mechanisms. We will also discuss use of Web facilities for particular
software engineering activities, including: domain and process modeling using
IDEF; component-based and other kinds of reuse repositories; hypertext
implementation of most or all of the development data base - specifications,
source code, documentation, test plans and data, etc.; and HyperAda - a
hypertext representation of Ada source code.
Course materials will include a floppy disk containing the newest public
domain browser(s), Web pointers to other sources of the information covered in
the tutorial, and an on-line version of the tutorial presentation slides.
Half Day Sessions:
Safety Critical Applications Using Ada - George Romanski, Thompson
Software Products
This tutorial will provide an overview of software safety and review
applicable safety guidelines and standards. The safe use of high-level
languages will be addressed - in particular, C, C++, Ada83 and Ada95. A safe
subset of Ada will be described with a rationale for the selection of language
constructs. A safety certification process, together with verification
techniques and tools will be addressed. The different approaches to
certification by various industries will be described. Finally, some
recommendations will be given to help avoid problems which may be encountered
during the certification of a safety critical application.
Group Support Systems - Daniel Hocking, Army Research Laboratory
This 4-hour tutorial introduces participants to basic concepts of electronic
meeting support and presents techniques for using electronic meeting support
to enhance the success of various types of meetings. The tutorial begins
with a presentation supported by an electronic meeting system wherein
participants ask questions and make comments electronically. Following the
presentation, a sample session will be used to demonstrate the power of
parallel input, support for idea organization, consensus generation,
prioritization, and documentation.
Software Reengineering: Leveraging Your Legacy Software System Assets,
This tutorial will discuss the reengineering domain, its various sub-domains,
and what factors (including human factors) contribute to the successful
implementation of reengineering technology. Topics include matching
reengineering strategies to your organization's software systems, expected
return on investment for typical reengineering projects, personnel issues, and
the future directions of reengineering.
DoD/Commercial Software Standards - Reed Sorenson, TRW
This tutorial compares the use of software standards within the DoD and the
commercial world. There is a particular focus of the DoD's current transition
from DoD-STD-21676A to MIL-STD-498, and the DoD's ultimate objective to
replace DoD standards with "best commercial practices." The impact of the
DoD's recent decision to move toward "best commercial practices" upon both the
software acquisition and development processes will be discussed. This
tutorial is a "must" for DoD personnel who are involved in the software
acquisition process and/or the management of software contractors and DoD
software managers and developers.
To register by mail, send to:
To register by fax with credit card, dial: (310) 391-7597
All registrations must be paid in US currency. Attendees from outside the
United States are asked to register by mail and to pay on-site with US
Currency or Travelers Checks.
IMPORTANT: We urge you to make your travel and hotel reservations EARLY!!!!!
Transportation:
Airport: The Sheraton Plaza Hotel is located 35 minutes from the Philadelphia
International Airport. You will find staffed SuperShuttle counters in the
baggage claim areas in B, C, D, and E Terminals. Current cost is $17 per
person one way. If you have any problems or questions, you can reach
SuperShuttle at (215) 551-6600.
The hotel is easily accessible from the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Route 76.
From Philadelphia, take Schuylkill Expressway (Route 76) west to Exit #25.
Bear right at first light onto Mall Blvd. (formerly Goddard Blvd.). Turn
right at next light onto N. Gulph Road and proceed through 4 lights to First
Avenue. Bear left entering the parking lot to reach the Sheraton Plaza Hotel.
The conference provides an "up close and personal," nurturing environment for
student attendees.
Student activities include a conference overview, a special student session,
birds-of-a-feather meetings, and participation in all regular conference
events. Take this opportunity to meet others in the Ada community. Bring
your resume; you never know just who you'll meet!
Conference Registration Rate Schedule:
Conference
Before 20 February | After 20 February
I will attend (included in Conference rate):
Tutorials
Before 20 February | After 20 February
(full day/half day) | (full day/half day)
Full Day (Select One):
_____ Ada95
_____ World Wide Web
or Full Day (Select One from Morning & One from Afternoon Session):
For Half Day (Select One of the following):
Morning Sessions:
_____ Safety Critical Applications with Ada
_____ Group Support Systems
Afternoon Sessions:
_____ Legacy Systems
_____ DoD/Commercial Software Standards
Lilly Langtry's _____ $ 26
(Wednesday Evening Optional Activity)
Dinner Selection:
_____ Beef or _____ Flounder
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $__________
Please indicate any special needs:
"Ada on the Information Superhighway"
March 13-16, 1995
Please return this reservation form no later than February 27, 1995 to:
(610) 265-1500
Make check or money order payable to the Sheraton Valley Forge. Credit card
guarantee will be charged upon receipt.
The 3,000-acre Valley Forge National Historical Park was the site of the 6-month winter
encampment by the Continental Army. From December 19, 1777 to
June 19, 1778, Gen. George Washington and 12,000 soldiers kept the British
Army bottled up in Philadelphia. During that terrible winter some 2,000
troops died from disease brought on by supply shortages, severe weather and
poor sanitation. Still, during those 6 months, the army was reorganized,
Baron von Steuben developed a uniform system of drill and the Continental Army
left Valley Forge a well trained, efficient force.
A self-guiding tour visits the reconstructed huts of Muhlenberg's Brigade,
Washington's Headquarters and the original entrenchment lines and
fortifications.
National Memorial Arch commemorates the patriotism and suffering of Gen.
George Washington and the men who were under his command.
Washington's Headquarters, the Potts House, contains Revolutionary War-era
furnishings.
Washington Memorial Chapel on SR 23 within the park, contains relics,
wood-carvings and windows depicting the history of the country. A bell tower
connected with the chapel houses the 58-bell Washington Memorial National
Carillon.
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge was founded in 1949 to provide information
on and to promote an appreciation of the nation's political, social and
economic institutions. The 105-acre campus features the Independence Garden,
the Medal of Honor Grove, the Faith of our Fathers Chapel and the Credo
Monument. The Medal of Honor Grove and the campus are open to the public.
Wednesday, 15 March 1995, 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
The Information Superhighway is providing capability faster than our
educational system is able to react. Computer information science
departments will be incorporating Superhighway resources into courses.
Course work might involve accessing databases over telnet/mosaic to searches
for reusable components. In addition, the Superhighway will impact
practically all curricula besides computer information sciences such as
telecommunications, law, medicine, engineering, pure sciences, liberal arts,
and the fine arts. Computer science departments may be asked to help lead
the way to develop curricula for other disciplines.
Dr. Jeffrey Guinter, IBM
Thursday, 16 March 1995, 8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
The Ada language has some strong support from certain non-defense-
oriented companies. These commercial organizations selected a language based
on commercial advantages rather than Government mandate. Why was the
language chosen? What has been their experience? With hindsight, was this
the right decision?
Ben Brosgol, Brosgol Consulting and Training
Representative from Westinghouse
Representative from Reuters
Representative from commercial aviation (invited)
Representative from commercial communications (invited)
Thursday, 16 March 1995, 10:15 A.M. - 11:45 A.M.
A Defense Science Board task force was initiated in 1994 to recommend a
strategy for how DoD could take advantage of best commercial practices and
products in the acquisition of software systems. The task force
recommendations are consistent with the intent of Secretary Perry's strategy
for acquisition reform. This panel will address some of the technical and
business issues associated with the implementation of the DSB
recommendations.
Mr. Dennis J. Turner, Director, Software Engineering Directorate,
U.S. Army. CECOM
Dr. Raghu Singh, Senior Manager, Software and Security Policy,
SPAWAR, U.S. Navy
Representative from industry (invited)
Special Note
All paid conference attendees will receive the Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM containing
1.1 gigabytes of Ada documentation, information, and source code.
This CD-ROM is a copy of the Internet's Public Ada Library (PAL). In addition,
it contains:
This two-disk set is a valuable resource for any serious Ada developer.
The ANCOST Board would like to thank SIGAda for making this CD-ROM
available to our attendees.
TUTORIALS
Monday, March 13, 1995
Full Day Sessions
Michael R. Olson, USAF/Software Technology Support Center and
Chris Sittenauer, SAIC
GENERAL INFORMATION
Conference Management:
ROSENBERG & RISINGER
The Meeting Professionals
(310) 397-6338Registration:
Advanced registration is encouraged. Please use the form enclosed in this
brochure. To take advantage of the Early Bird Discount Fees, registrations
must be postmarked by February 20, 1995. No registrations will be processed
without full payment.
ANCOST
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11287 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90230Hotel Accommodations:
Rooms have been reserved at the Sheraton Plaza Hotel (not to be confused with
the Sheraton Valley Forge Hotel, which is physically adjacent to it) at the
Conference Rate of $70 single or double. To reserve a room, return the
enclosed reservation form directly to the Sheraton or phone (610) 265-1500 and
identify yourself as an Ada Technology Conference attendee.
Student Participation:
The ANCOST conference provides many chances for students to interact with
other students, professors, industry and government professionals.
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THIRTEENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Ada TECHNOLOGY
March 13-16, 1995 - Sheraton Plaza Hotel - King of Prussia, PA
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HISTORY
Valley Forge began as an iron forge on the Valley Creek in the 1740's. A
sawmill and gristmill were added by the time of the Revolutionary War, making
Valley Forge an important supply center for the colonists. However, it did not
escape the attention of the British, who destroyed the forge and mills in
1777. Only ruins marked the site when George Washington chose Valley Forge as
the place of his winter encampment of 1777-78.
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