DC SIGAda
Program for Tuesday, 9 April 2002

The presentation will start at 7:30 P.M. (Refreshments and Social at 7:00 P.M.) at the Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland

Munchies and soft drinks will be served at 7:00 PM, the general meeting will start at 7:30 PM, followed by the program.

Frank Beard graduated in 1986 from the University of Houston with a BS degree in Computer Science. From 1986 to 1989, he worked as a contractor for the Crew and Thermal Systems Division (Space Shuttle) of NASA's Johnson Space Center doing real-time data acquisitions systems written in Ada on DEC VAX hardware. From 1989 to 1993, he worked as a contractor for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center doing near real-time on-board distributed data storage and retrieval using Ada on real-time LYNX OS. From 1993 to present, he is working as a contractor to the Navy doing Naval messaging systems written in Ada on HP-UX BLS and Windows NT.

Detailed Directions and Maps are available at: http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Directions_JHU_APL.html

Please put on your calendar the Last ACM DC SIGAda Chapter Meeting for this Spring scheduled for Thursday, 9 May 2002. Victor Giddings, of OIS, will be speaking on the use of Ada in Nuclear Fusion Research at the National Ignition Facility. This is not the coffee pot fusion variety in the news recently; it is the one where Ada on a CORBA backplane synchronizes 192 high powered lasers onto a target. The presentation will be held at the new MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia

We are starting to plan for this fall. Tuesday, 10 September will be the next Baltimore SIGAda meeting. Thursday, 10 October will be the next DC SIGAda Chapter meeting. Chuck Howell will be giving a presentation on "Structured Augmentation Support for Information Assurance. Details later.

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