TRI-Ada '91: Keynotes - More Information!

TRI-Ada '91: Keynotes - More Information!

[Judy.Bamberger]

                       Ada:  Today's Accomplishments;
                             Tomorrow's Expectations


               FINAL PROGRAM - FINAL PROGRAM - FINAL PROGRAM

                                TRI-Ada '91
                         San Jose Convention Center
                            San Jose, California
                            October 21-25, 1991




              The largest worldwide conference and exposition
           devoted exclusively to the advancement of Ada software


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information, contact:

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    Conference Management
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Keynote Speakers

Key leaders from industry,  academia,  and  government  will  be  addressing
TRI-Ada  '91.  They will focus on their achievements to date and share their
visions, plans, and expectations for tomorrow.

Joan Bebb, Chief Engineer, Systems  Engineering  and  Development  Division,
TRW.   Mrs Bebb graduated from San Diego State University in 1960 and joined
TRW in 1974.  Mrs Bebb has been a major contributor to significant  software
developments   sponsored  by  the  US  Government.    She  has  managed  and
architected very  large  systems  involving  extensive  embedded  real  time
software  and  distributed hardware.  She has helped design state-of-the-art
languages and CASE  tools,  and  has  assisted  in  defining  processes  and
procedures  that  foster  good  software  engineering and project management
techniques.

Mrs Bebb will discuss the major  directions  that  US  software  development
might take in the 1990s.

Jean-Marie  Cadiou,  Director,  European  Strategic  Programme  for  R&D  in
Information Technology (ESPRIT), Commission of the European Communities.  Dr
Cadiou  received  his  PhD  from  Stanford University in Computer Science in
1972, and became Scientific Director at INRIA in France.  In 1975, Dr Cadiou
joined  IBM,  holding  positions  in Paris and California, including head of
Programming Technology Research at IBM  San  Jose  Laboratory.    He  became
director  of  New Information Technologies in the Commission of the European
Communities in 1981.

Dr  Cadiou  will  discuss  the  Ada  and  software  engineering  initiatives
sponsored  by  the  ESPRIT  program, and the effectiveness of multi-national
academic/industrial collaboration on technology transition.

A Nico Habermann, Professor and Dean of  the  School  of  Computer  Science,
Carnegie  Mellon  University.    Dr  Habermann  received  his  PhD  from the
Technological University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands,  in  1967,  and  was
named  head  of  the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon in 1972.
Dr Habermann became the first dean of CMU's School of  Computer  Science  in
1988.

Dr  Habermann  will  discuss  the key concepts introduced by Ada in 1980 and
will  focus  on  new  ideas   introduced   by   functional   languages   and
object-oriented  programming  that  will  contribute  to more optimal system
implementation.

Jan Hext, Professor of Computing, Macquarie University,  Sydney,  Australia.
Dr  Hext  received  his PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University in
1966.  He was on the faculty of the University of Sydney for  15  years  and
then  moved to Macquarie University, where he is the foundation Professor of
Computing.

Dr Hext will review some key educational issues that face the Ada community.
These  include  the image of Ada in the non-Ada community; the opportunities
in academia; the shortage  of  high  quality  materials  and  software;  the
challenge   of  real-time,  embedded  systems;  and  the  general  level  of
professionalism.  The talk will include some practical suggestions, based on
six  years'  experience of teaching Ada to students and systems engineers in
Australia.

Karl  Reed,  Director,  Amdahl  Australian   Intelligent   Tool   Programme,
Department  of  Computer  Science  and  Computer  Engineering  at  La  Trobe
University.  Mr Reed has worked for Elliott Bros, ICIANZ, LMEricsson, Monash
University, RMIT and now La Trobe University.  He has played a major role in
the development of software engineering teaching in Australia,  and  in  the
development of technology policy.

Mr  Reed will address the impact of national information technology industry
promotion and R&D strategies on the future of software engineering.

Jean Francois Wets,  Director  of  Air  Traffic  Control  Centers  Activity,
Thomson-CSF.    Mr  Wets graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et
Metiers in 1975 and from Ecole Superieure d'Electricite in 1977, and  joined
the air traffic control (ATC) department of Thomson-CSF.  Since then, he has
participated in the design and implementation  of  software  for  more  than
twenty  ATC centers.  In 1983, he introduced Ada as the application language
for all ATC systems.

Mr Wets will discuss the past eight years of experience at Thomson-CSF using
Ada  for  developing  several  air  traffic  control  centers,  in  terms of
reusability, performance, cost effectiveness, and commercial impact.

General Ronald W Yates, Commander, US Air Force Systems  Command.    General
Yates  graduated  from  the US Air Force Academy in 1960 and flew 100 combat
missions in Southeast Asia.  In 1970, he earned  an  MS  degree  in  Systems
Management  from  USC.    General  Yates  was appointed Director of Tactical
Systems for the Aeronautical Systems Division  (ASD)  in  1983,  and  became
system  program  director  for  the  F-16  fighter  -  the  largest aircraft
acquisition program in the history of the Department of Defense.  He assumed
his present command at Andrews Air Force Base in April 1990.

General  Yates  will  discuss  government  initiatives  in  Ada and software
engineering.

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