Re: TRI-Ada '94 Topics

[agate!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!cernosek@ucbvax.Berke ley.EDU (Gary J. Cernosek)]

In article <1993Aug20.202256.5098@sei.cmu.edu> dyer@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Richard D
ye) writes:
>We are in the early process of putting together the program for
>TRI-Ada '94.  The theme of the conference is "Architecting Systems for
>the 90's and Beyond."
>
>I would like to start a dialogue about what topics will be "hot
>topics" in November 1994 - not what is hot right now, but what will be
>hot in 15 months.

I would like to see a session dedicated to "Object-Oriented Concurrent
Programming with Ada 9X."  The recent Communications of the ACM (Sept
'93) featured eight articlces on the subject; however, there was little
mention of Ada.  The Ada community should begin making news in this
arena, which I believe will most certainly be a "hot topic" -- in 1994
and beyond.

>Who would you like to hear from as a keynoter?

The keynoter should be someone that represents an organization that has
(or will be) adopting Ada technology for reasons others than they had to
by mandate.  I remember a SIGAda conference in Seattle back in, I think,
1987, where Boeing made a presentation on how they were considering Ada
for what they were then calling the "7J7" commercial aircraft program.
The reasons why such an organization chooses Ada are often most
enlightening.  (By the way, the '7' in 7J7 also became a '7,' and the
software for Boeing's "Tripple-7" systems is being written in Ada.)

>
>Dick Dye
>TRI-Ada '94 Program Chair
>dyer@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
>+1-719-590-5224
>Fax: +1-719-590-5198


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