Attention:
To Members and Friends of Baltimore & DC SIGAda
Please forward to friends/colleagues in the Baltimore/DC Area
Next Meeting:
Our Next Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 9 September 2003, as a Joint
Meeting of the Baltimore and DC SIGAda Chapters. Currie Colket and
Bill Bail will be speaking on "Highlights of the 8th International
Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2003),
Held at Toulouse, France from 16-20 June 2003".
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.
Abstract: Highlights of the 8th International Conference
on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2003)
Ada-Europe is an international organization, set up to promote the use of
Ada. It aims to spread the use and the knowledge of Ada and to promote
its introduction into academic and research establishments. Above all,
Ada-Europe intends to represent European interests in Ada and
Ada-related matters. It was established according to Belgian Law and
currently has member organizations of: Ada-Belgium, Ada-Denmark,
Ada-Deutschland, Ada-France, Ada-Spain, Ada in Sweden, Ada in
Switzerland and Ada UK.
The best-known of Ada-Europe's activities is its annual conference, the
International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies. Also known
as Ada-Europe, this conference provides an international forum for
researchers, developers and users of reliable software technologies.
Presentations and discussions cover applied and theoretical work currently
conducted to support the development and maintenance of software
systems.
The conference contained much relevant information on the software
engineering of real-time and distributed systems useful to those building
such systems. The highlights on Tuesday night will compress a week's
worth of knowledge into a valuable packet so you can take advantage of
the technical work presented at the conference without your actually
attending the conference. Of particular interest to you will be a summary
of the WG9 plans to evolve the Ada standard, ISO/IEC 8652: The Ada
Programming Language, which many people are calling Ada 2005.
For more details, see the Ada-Europe 2003 Conference Home Page at:
http://www.irit.fr/AdaEurope2003/
Presenters:
1. Currie Colket
Mr. Currie Colket is the Chair of ACM SIGAda, the Chair of the SIGAda
Ada Semantic Working Group, and Chair of the ISO WG9 ASIS
Rapporteur Group. Mr. Colket is currently a software systems engineer
for MITRE. His current tasks involve software engineering support for a
variety of programs. He recently retired from the DoD where he served in
the Air Force as an Airborne Surveillance Officer on AWACS, the Navy
Deputy Director for the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO), and a
computer scientist for the United States Navy. Prior to his affiliation with
MITRE, he was a consultant for the Software Program Manager's
Network (SPMN). He has a Bachelor of Science from Case Institute of
Technology, a Master of Business Administration from the University of
Southern Mississippi and a Master of Science in Computer Science from
the Ohio State University. His coordinates are:
Currie Colket
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
McLean, Virginia 22102-7508
Phone: +1 (703) 883-7381
FAX: +1 (703) 883-1339
Email: [log in to unmask]
2. Bill Bail
Since 1990, Dr. Bail has worked for The MITRE Corporation in McLean
VA as a Computer Scientist in the Software Engineering Center (SWEC) .
MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation chartered to provide systems
engineering services to the U.S. Government agencies, primarily the DoD,
the FAA, and the IRS. Within MITRE, the SWEC focuses on supporting
various programs with consultation, particularly transitioning emerging
technologies into practice.
Dr. Bail's technical areas of focus include dependable software design and
assessment, techniques for software specification development, design
methodologies, metric definition and application, and verification and
validation. At MITRE, Dr. Bail is currently supporting the U.S. Navy,
focusing on the practice of software engineering within PEO IWS
(Integrated Warfare Systems), particularly as applied to large real-time
systems. Prior to 1990, Dr. Bail worked at Intermetrics Inc. in Bethesda
MD.
Previously, Dr. Bail taught part-time at The University of Maryland from
1983-1986 in the Computer Science Department for undergraduate
courses in discrete mathematics, computer architecture, and programming
language theory. Since 1989 he has served as an part-time Adjunct
Associate Professor at the University of Maryland University College
where he develops instructional materials and teaches courses in software
engineering, in topics such as Software Requirements, Verification and
Validation, Software Design, Software Engineering, Fault Tolerant
Software, and others. He has also presented tutorials in Cleanroom
Software Engineering at SIGAda in 2000, and at AdaEurope in 2002, as
well as tutorials in Ada in the early 1990s.
Dr. Bail received a BS in Mathematics from Carnegie Institute of
Technology, and an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Maryland.
Bill Bail
The MITRE Corporation
7515 Colshire Drive
McLean, Virginia 22102-7508
Phone: +1 (703) 883-7590
FAX: +1 (703) 883-1339
Email: [log in to unmask]
Directions From Washington, DC
From the Capital Beltway (I-495), Take the I-95 North exit;
10 miles to Columbia exit (MD Rte. 32 West);
2.5 miles to Washington, DC, exit (U.S. Rte. 29 S);
1.5 miles to make a logical RIGHT to go WEST on Johns Hopkins Road
(There is now a new style dual-traffic circle overpass/interchange which
replaced the traffic light at this intersection.)
APL is located to the right, just past the service station;
Turn right at the sign: "Building 1 Visitor Parking";
Use Building 1 entrance near the flag-pole; The meeting is in the cafeteria.
Detailed Directions and Maps are available at:
http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/Directions_JHU_APL.html
Slides From Karl Nyberg's Presentation Available:
At the DC SIGAda meeting on 8 May 2003, Karl Nyberg of the Grebyn
Corporation gave an excellent presentation titled: Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) of Cryptographic Source Code. Slides from his
presentation are available online as a Powerpoint Presentation at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/200305_OCR_of_Cryptographic_Source_Code.ppt
(ppt, 118KB).
Please Put on Your Calendar:
o 9 October 2003 - The next meeting of the ACM DC SIGAda
Chapter Meeting for Thursday - Steve Grimaldi and Victor Giddings
of OIS will be speaking on Distributed, Real-Time CORBA.
o 11 November 2003 - The next meeting of the ACM Baltimore
SIGAda Chapter Meeting for Tuesday - Lester Sussman will be
speaking on Writing and Filing US Patents - From a Software
Perspective.
o 7-11 December 2003 - SIGAda 2003 will be held in San Diego,
California. Details at http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2003
DC SIGAda Home Page and Maillist:
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http://www.acm.org/sigada/locals/dc/ for additional information.
Please provide suggestions on the Web site and its contents. We are
particularly interested in ways the DC SIGAda Home Page can serve you
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Business:
Please forward this message to people who might be interested in
attending. We welcome all new members as our attendance and interests
grow.
Many thanks to all earlier participants, contributors, speakers, advisors,
and friends, who are involved in helping to produce and attend the
meetings.
Jeff Castellow, Chair, DC SIGAda