Conference announcements

We are pleased to announce that Ada-Belgium will hold its 6th Annual Seminar at the premises of Eurocontrol in Brussels, on Friday, November 22, 1996.

Invited speaker is S. Tucker Taft, Chief Scientist in the Intermetrics Software Technology Division and currently Technical Director for development of Intermetrics' Ada 95 technology, called "AdaMagic"(tm).

From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Taft led the Ada 9X language design team, culminating in the February 1995 approval of Ada 95 as the first ISO standardized object-oriented programming language.

He is currently working on "AppletMagic"(tm), Intermetrics' Ada 95 compiler targetted to the Java Virtual Machine. A downloadable beta version is available. (*)

Tentative Program

  09:00-09:30  Registration

  09:30-09:35  Welcome (Ada-Belgium)
  09:35-10:00  Presentation of Eurocontrol CFMU
               (P. Schmutz, head Software Section, Eurocontrol CFMU)
  10:00-11:00  Ada and the Internet (Java technology) - an overview
               (Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)

  11:00-11:30  Coffee break

  11:30-13:00  Tutorial: the use of Ada for Java development
               (Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)

  13:00-14:30  Lunch

  14:30-15:00  Ada experience report (Ph. Waroquiers, Eurocontrol CFMU)
  15:00-15:30  Polynomial Homotopy Continuation, a portable Ada software
               package (J. Verschelde, K.U.Leuven)
  15:30-16:00  Indexed sequential files in Ada (M. Gobin, R.M.A.)

  16:00-16:30  Coffee break

  16:30-18:00  Ada and the external world (practical experiences)
               (Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)

Still available: the Call for Papers.

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada@belgium.eu.net

(*) See also the document "Twelve reasons to use Ada 95 for Java applet development" and the Web-page "Ada and WWW/Java".

Information on this and other Ada-Belgium events is available on the Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated regularly. Check out URL

     http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

To the Ada-Belgium home page. To the 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar Home Page.

Last update: 96/10/14.