DC/Baltimore SIGAda Program for 2005/2006

Schedule

This year, the DC/Baltimore SIGAda Chapter is planning to meet on the 2nd Tuesday from September through May. There are some exceptions to take advantage of significant events and to avoid major holidays and important Ada conferences. There is no December meeting as this conflicts with the busy holiday season. There is no February meeting, as this conflicts with Valentine's Day. There is no November meeting as this would conflict with the SIGAda 2005 Conference from 13-17 November 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. You are all encouraged to attend this conference instead. The URL is below. The DC/Baltimore SIGAda venue typically alternates between Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory JHU/APL in Laurel, Maryland and MITRE2 in McLean, Virginia.

We are starting to plan an exciting program for 2005-2006. More details will be provided as they become available:

Date	Planned Meeting Event
Monday 22 August 2005	Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn, Recipients of the ACM 2004 Turing Award will be speaking on Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are two key pioneers of the Internet. The lecture is being webcast from ACM SIGCOMM 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The webcast will be held at the MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia. ACM has archived the webcast at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/webcast.html
Tuesday 13 September 2005	Meeting scheduled for Laurel, Maryland was cancelled in preference to 22 August event.
Tuesday 11 October 2005	Bill Bail from the MITRE Corporation will be speaking on Requirements Engineering for Dependable Systems at the MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia. Slides from Bill Bail's presentation are available online as a PowerPoint Presentation (ppt, 330 KB)
Tuesday 8 November 2005	You are encouraged to attend the SIGAda 2005 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Consequently there will not be a local meeting on 8 November.
Sun - Thur 13-17 November 2005	ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference (SIGAda 2005) - in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tuesday 13 December 2005	There is not a meeting scheduled in December. Enjoy the Holidays!
Tuesday 10 January 2006	Francis Thom of Artisan Software will be speaking on Developing and Maintaining Systems Using UML at JHU/APL in Laurel, Maryland. Due to technical difficulties, this presentation has been rescheduled.
Tuesday 14 February 2006	There is not a meeting scheduled on Valentine's Day. Enjoy!
Tuesday 14 March 2006	Kevin Richardson of the MITRE Corporation will be speaking on The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) and the Building of Software Defined Radios at MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia. This meeting was postponed to 9 May due to the medical condition of the host sponsor.
Tuesday 11 April 2006	There was no April meeting. An attempt was made for Francis Thom's presentation. There are now scheduling difficulties. See June 2006.
Tuesday 9 May 2006	Kevin Richardson of the MITRE Corporation will be speaking on The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) and the Building of Software Defined Radios at MITRE2 Building in McLean, Virginia. Slides from Kevin Richardson's presentation are available online as a PowerPoint Presentation (ppt, 534 KB)
Tuesday 13 June 2006	Francis Thom of Artisan Software will be speaking on Developing and Maintaining Ada Systems Using UML. This is a Virtual meeting from the comfort of your own surroundings. This presentation was originally scheduled for 10 January 2006, but was rescheduled due to technical difficulties. Slides from Francis Thom's presentation are available online as a PowerPoint Presentation (wmv, 40.1 MB). Additional Artisan Software technical papers are available at: http://www.artisansw.com/downloads/.
Sun - Thur 12-16 November 2006	ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference (SIGAda 2006) - in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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