Outreach The AJPO works continuously to promote the benefits and use of Ada 95. Each year the AJPO spreads the word about Ada 95 through outreach activities such as trade show exhibits, presentations, international partnerships, and the AdaIC Web site. Tradeshow Exhibits – Spreading the Word about Ada 95 The AJPO has also spread the word about Ada 95 by exhibiting at over 25 computer conferences across the country in the past two years. The AJPO’s AdaIC presented the benefits of Ada 95 at large conferences such as COMDEX, Software Development, Object World, and FOSE; and at smaller but more targeted events such as the Software Technology Conference, TRI-Ada, and the Washington Ada Symposium (WAdaS). Exhibit 11 provides a breakdown of the attendance and the number of contacts made at various tradeshows and conferences the AdaIC has exhibited at since November of 1995. Exhibit 11 - AdaIC Trade Show Contacts 1996-1997 Trade Show Number of Leads Generated TRI-Ada'95 400 ACM Computing Week 380 Software Development West 500 FOSE '96 500 Embedded Systems East 400 STC '96 500 Object World East 200 COMDEX Spring '96 500 Object EXPO '96 1000 Software Development East 850 TRI-Ada '96 475 STC '97 400 Object World West '97 450 Presentations The AJPO has worked continuously to promote the benefits of Ada 95 to leaders in government, industry, and academia by giving over 150 presentations nationwide since 1995. The AJPO has been able to educate software developers and managers about Ada and to solicit feedback through these efforts. Several of these slide presentations are available for viewing on the AdaIC Web site. International Partners It is no secret that Ada has met with success and interest in foreign markets. The AJPO has worked with other nations to see that Ada continues to thrive abroad. In the past two years, the AJPO has provided support for international conferences such as Ada Belgium and Ada Europe; given technical insight and support to the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence; and provided mentoring support to Ericcson Microwave Systems in their development of Sweden’s BAMSE Air Defence System. In addition, The AdaIC’s Web site has been accessed thousands of times by users outside the United States the past year. Exhibit 12 provides details on the number of times the AdaIC Web site has been accessed by users outside the United States since January of 1997. Exhibit 12 - Top Ten Hits Outside of the USA on sw-eng.falls-church.va.us January 1997 - July 1997 Country Number of Hits United Kingdom 35,290 Germany 26,922 France 23,684 Canada 23,293 Sweden 21,285 Australia 19,819 Spain 10,366 Japan 9,449 Netherlands 6,642 Switzerland 4,476 Public Ada Library (PAL) The AJPO sponsors the Internet’s Public Ada Library (PAL). The PAL is a distributed library of Ada and VHDL software, courseware, and information that contains about 2 billion bytes of material. All items in the PAL have been released to the public with unlimited distribution and are freeware in most cases. The PAL can be accessed from the AdaIC Web site at ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/PAL. Over 827,000 files were transferred from the PAL site between 1993-1997. Exhibit 15 details the number of files downloaded from the PAL site since January of 1997. The AJPO has also sponsored several editions of a CD-ROM that contains the contents from the PAL. Several thousand copies of this CD-ROM have been distributed at software conferences such as the Software Technology Conference and TRI-Ada since 1995. Exhibit 13 - PAL Usage Statistics 1997 Month Number of PAL Files Transferred January 45,312 February 98,581 March 70,115 April 55,191 May 54,047 June 37,561 July 42,183