Conference announcements

1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar

Ada: the solution to integrate technologies

Friday, November 22, 1996
Eurocontrol, Brussels, Belgium

Organized with Assistance from
Eurocontrol CFMU, EC-DGXII, Thomson Software Products,
ACM SIGAda & AJPO

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.

Highlights

Invited speaker is S. Tucker Taft, Chief Scientist in the Intermetrics Products and Technology Group and currently Technical Director developing Intermetrics' Ada 95 technology, called "AdaMagic". He is also leading development for Intermetrics' Ada 95-to-Java byte-code compiler, called "AppletMagic". (*)
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.
Papers will be presented on the use of Ada in Belgian industrial, research, and teaching projects respectively.
Thanks to the assistance of DG XII at the European Commission, a printed copy of the Ada 95 Quality and Style: Guidelines for Professional Programmers will be given to each attendee.
Thanks to ACM SIGAda, we can once more offer free copies of the latest Ada CD-ROM set from Walnut Creek (August 1996 Edition), i.e. 1.2 GB of Ada documentation, information, source code and ready-to-run tools and compilers from the Public Ada Library (PAL) on a 2 disk set (list price $39.95).
Thanks to the AJPO, we can offer free copies of the new Discovering Ada CD-ROM (November 1996 Edition), i.e. a multimedia CD-ROM of Ada training, produced under contract to the AJPO, by Intermetrics, Inc., with new material about using Ada 95 and AppletMagic to create Java-compatible applets, in addition to a version of AppletMagic itself for Windows 95 (probable list price $99.00).

(*) A downloadable beta version of AppletMagic is available. See also the document "Twelve reasons to use Ada 95 for Java applet development" and the Web-page "Ada and WWW/Java".

Additional information

What's new?
The full Call for Participation, including the program and abstracts of the talks.
How to get there and where to stay?
A Registration Form.
A Membership Application Form for 1997.
Information on the new edition of the Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM set (August 96).

Still available: the Call for Papers and the Preliminary Call for Participation.

This is an event not to be missed! Do not delay to register!
(And be sure to request your FREE copy of the Ada CD-ROM set.)

Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels.

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

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our activities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire, (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS N.V./S.A. , Rational Software Corporation , Trasys N.V./S.A , and Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

Special thanks to Eurocontrol CFMU (Central Flow Management Unit of the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation), DG XII at the European Commission (Directorate-General XII: Science, Research and Development), Thomson Software Products (TSP), ACM/SIGAda (ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada programming language) and AJPO - AdaIC (Ada Joint Program Office - Ada Information Clearinghouse) for their support of this event.

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.

Last update: 96/11/13.

Dirk Craeynest