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Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, Inc.
Wednesday, December 4, 1996, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Ada 95's chief designer Tucker Taft describes how Ada exploits the
emerging Java technology to respond to today's new Internet-based
computing paradigm. This talk will explain how Ada 95 has been adapted to
the Java "platform," achieving full interoperability between Ada 95 and
Java code, and opening up the exciting new Internet-based computing
paradigm to the reliability and productivity of Ada-based development.
Tucker Taft is Chief Scientist in the Intermetrics Products and Technology
Group and is currently Technical Director developing Intermetrics' Ada 95
technology, called AdaMagic™. He is also leading development for
Intermetrics' Ada 95-to-Java, byte-code compiler, called AppletMagic™.
From 1990 to 1995, Taft led the Ada 9X language design team.
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David Fisher, SEI
Wednesday, December 4, 1996, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Ada pioneer David Fisher discusses future software trends revealed by the
Structured Survey of Software Technology (SSST), a pilot project undertaken
by the SEI for the Air Force acquisition community. The SSST is meant to
reveal capabilities, limitations, maturity, and risks associated with
particular software technologies. It provides criteria to enable technology
trade-offs and selections. This session reports on the first phase of the
effort which was completed on August 23.
David Fisher is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI), where he is currently involved in projects
relating to network security. He recently completed a term as technical
team leader for the SSST.
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Richard Volz, Texas A&M
Thursday, December 5, 1996, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
During the '80s, pioneering developers recognized a number of issues with
regards to distributed systems and Ada 83. The Ada community has now
rectified many of these issues. Richard Volz will provide insight into
these developments and discuss Ada's use in the next generation of
distributed software architectures.
Richard Volz has been Department Head of the Computer Science Department
at Texas A&M University since 1988, prior to which he was Director of
the Robotics Research Laboratory and Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. For the past decade,
he has also served on federal advisory boards including the Ada board, and
has worked on technology for distributed Ada programs.
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Bill Beckwith, OIS
Thursday, December 5, 1996, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CORBA represents one of the most important, pervasive, application-architecture
technologies of the day. Bill Beckwith will explain why Ada 95 is the language
of choice for developing fast, reliable, portable CORBA systems.
Bill Beckwith is Chief Product Engineer for Objective Interface Systems,
Inc. Bill is one of the founders of the company and is a member of the
board of directors. He is co-author of the OMG IDL to Ada 95 mapping.
Bill is treasurer and past chairman of the Washington DC SIGAda chapter.
He has worked for various software companies including Interbase, Systems
Center, VM Software, Computer Associates, and STSC.
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Robert Dewar, ACT
Friday, December 6, 1996, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Traditionally programming languages have been designed in isolation, as
though they were the only language around. Ada 95 is the first language to
make an aggressive attempt to break with this tradition. Robert Dewar
discusses the extensive facilities for interface to other languages in Ada
95 that uniquely suit the language to modern concerns for reuse and
component-based technology. He gives examples of the spectacular
improvements in programming productivity that result.
Robert Dewar is a well-known expert in programming languages and compilers.
He helped design Algol-68, Ada 83, and Ada 95. He led teams that developed
Ada/Ed the first validated Ada 83 compiler, and more recently GNAT, the
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