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April 5, 1996 

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL SUPPORTS Ada 95!

On March 22, 1996, the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School made the decision to use Ada 95 as the first computer language in its graduate education. The change to Ada 95 is significant not only because it will require the use of Ada 95 by students in courses taught at the school but because it will encourage Ada's use in research projects leading to theses, and more importantly, in solving open research questions plaguing DoD research scientists. According to Dr. Luqi, Professor of Computer Science and Chair of Software Engineering, the change to Ada 95 will affect all of the Naval Postgraduate students as well as distance learning graduate students from DoD and Government labs. Their theses will directly impact DoD & Navy Software R&D projects.

SOURCE:
Dr. Luqi, Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Software Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 939443; Phone: 408/656-2735, Fax: 408/656-2814. 

FIRST TIME EVER: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION TO SPONSOR Ada 
SUMMER WORKSHOP

For the first time, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is sponsoring a workshop specifically geared to Ada entitled "Ada Throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum". The workshop will focus on Ada's suitability for teaching concepts such as data abstraction, software engineering and object- oriented programming at all levels of a computer science curriculum. The workshop is intended for faculty who plan to use Ada in their courses and participants are expected to initiate a curriculum project to be completed during the 1996-97 academic year.

The workshop will be held at Illinois State University, June 3 - 14, 1996. Those interested in attending the workshop should contact Dean Sanders:

Dean Sanders
e-mail: sanders@katya.acs.ilstu.edu
Phone: 309/438-8016
Fax: 309/438-5113

Applications should be postmarked by April 12, 1996 and sent to mailing address below:

Applied Computer Science Department
Campus Box 5150
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-5150

SOURCE:
Illinois State University and the National Science Foundation
 

TestMate Ada, VERSION 2.0, RELEASED BY RATIONAL

Rational Software Corporation recently released the next generation of TestMate Ada, a comprehensive testing tool to test complex Ada systems. TestMate Ada version 2.0 significantly improves the quality of software and reduces the costs of software testing and maintenance. TestMate supports all test activities in the testing cycle, including test planning, test design, test-case creation, execution and results analysis.

For more information, contact Lori Heyman of Rational Software Corporation at 408/496-3734, e-mail: lorih@rational.com

SOURCE:
Rational Software Corporation News Release

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