Ada Colleagues, Just a short note to inform you of changes since publication of the Advance Program for "SIGAda '98 -- Ada in Context", being held 07-12 NOV 1998 in Washington, DC: * New Last Early-Rate Cut-off Date: 23 OCT -- Adjusted to accommodate US Federal Employees due to the delay in FY-99 funding. * New Last Guaranteed Hotel Conference Rate Date: 25 OCT -- Same reason as above * Finalized Professional Development Seminar PDS Data: -- 10 AM - 4:30 PM / Saturday, 07 NOV -- Price: $100 (with no cutoff date) -- 5 Seminars Scheduled: 1) SW Process Improvement with the CMM 2) An Introduction to CORBA 3) Best Practices for Successful SW Projects 4) AntiPatterns 5) The Unified Modeling Language (UML) * Birds-Of-Feather (BOF) / Working Group Formation: -- Mr. Ronald Price, the Local Arrangements Chair, is -- the POC for BOF Arrangements, and his e-mail address -- has changed to: [log in to unmask] * Tuesday Reception & Gala Program Announced: -- "AdaGore Inc. or The Microjunk Curse" * NEW "ASE" 2 Disk CD-ROM Set from Walnut Creek: -- "Ada & Software Engineering" * "Where's Ada" Contest -- Put your name & organization on the map for a chance to win: -- free T-shirts (perhaps one autographed by "lady Ada" & others in the all star Gala cast), -- free single user Window 95 or Windows NT version of RR Software's CLAW software ($450 retail value), see http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/triadapaper/triada.html -- free WebMentor training in Ada'95 ($150 value), see http://www.adasoft.com/products/adamentor/adamentor.html. For full information & on-line registration, visit our Conference Web Site at URL: http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sa98/ Looking Forward to Seeing You in DC!! Tom Panfil -- SIGAda'98 Registration Chair