The Washington DC/Northern VA Chapter of the IEEE/Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, has a theme of "Microwaves and RF for the Intelligent Vehicle" for this academic year's presentations. The NEXT LECTURE, Tuesday, 17 April 2001, at 7:00 PM, may be value to Team-Ada members in the Washington DC area. The lecture will be held at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD. For more info, see URL: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/mtt-wnva/ This particular talk will be by consultant Richard Bishop, who will give an overview of ongoing research and product development activities for cars, trucks, buses, and specialty vehicles (military and industrial) worldwide. A view will be offered of the expected deployment rollout of these services, any issues and barriers that are foreseen, as well as how this "next wave" of intelligent transportation systems will affect our lives. From what I've seen on the related web sites, much has been done in the areas of sensors and system concepts, but little is said about software implementation plans. It looks like this could be a huge new niche for Ada. Check out the links. Any comments? Tom Panfil -- Treasurer -- Baltimore SIGAda http://www.jhuapl.edu/sigada/ Registration Chair -- SIGAda 2001 http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2001/