[GAP] GAP News Flash

[Louise Arkwright]

Dear GAP Member,

To celebrate GAP's first birthday and the start of  the new academic 
year, we are launching GAP News Flash!  This letter, designed to bring 
you info on events, new GAP features, updates, reminders, etc,  will be 
distributed via the  GAP Community Mailing List three times a year at 
the start of each school term. We hope you'll find it useful and 
informative!
Do let me have any comments and suggestions so we can be sure to include 
any news items you would like to see.

Wishing you every Ada success in your teaching.

Louise Arkwright
Academic Program Manager

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The GNAT Academic Program- 1 year old!

Launched in July 2004, the initiative has proved hugely popular with 
teachers of Ada across the world.  Today the GAP Community numbers 
almost 100 member unversities, teaching a variety of Ada-based courses. 
With new members enrolling regularly, it is clear that Ada continues to 
be popular on the computer science curriculum.

Educational IT Events

Key Upcoming Conferences:

  * ACM Greater New York Regional Programming Contest, co-sponsored by
    AdaCore at Kean University, Union NJ, USA, 20 Nov  2005: 
www.acmgnyr.org.

  * Conference on Contemporary Information Technology and IT
    Education, Moscow, 19-23 September 2005 : http://eng2005.edu-it.ru/

  * SIGSCE, Houston, March 06 :     
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~sigcse06/      ** Deadline for paper submission - 
9 September 2005**

  * ITiSCE, Bologna, June 06 (ITiCSE) :       
http://www.iticse06.cs.unibo.it/  **Deadline for submissions - 16 
January 2006**


AdaCore is willing, in certain cases, to subsidize GAP member travel to 
a conference if an Ada-related paper is accepted.  Please contact 
AdaCore for further details.

GAP members in the USA recently indicated they would like Robert Dewar 
to give a keynote talk at SIGSE.  Please contact the SIGSE Planning 
Committee  indicating  you would like him to be nominated  
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~sigcse06/  
This applies to other Academic Computer Science events; Robert Dewar is 
available to speak, subject to his availability.  Robert is also willing 
to visit individual  GAP Member universities to give lectures. See the 
Ada lecture series by Robert Dewar at
http://www.gnat.com/aa_lectures.php
For further information please contact Tracey Gilbert, gilbert at adacore.com.


The Ada Intern Program

This new initiative, aimed at putting GAP Member universities in touch 
with industry looking for Ada-knowledgable interns, will be launched in 
the coming month.  You will be able to post details such as  which of  
your students are seeking an internship and during which period(s) they 
are available  via GNAT Tracker.  AdaCore customers will be able to 
reach you directly to provide information on internships within their 
organisation.

GAP Member Contributions

At the start of this academic year, please don't hesitate to submit your 
Ada course descriptions and material as well as any other tools and 
examples.  Remember to check out the Contributions Section on GNAT 
Tracker regularly.  We have recently included links to newly-published 
books and invite you to let us know of any books you feel worthy of 
inclusion.  It is important that this integral part of GAP is sustained 
by regular input from all members!

GAP Member Web Pages

A message was recently circlulated to you  requesting  supplementary 
information about  Ada courses and more generally about your 
university.    Once posted, this info will be accessed by clicking your 
university's name on the GAP Member list on the AdaCore Academia web 
pages and in one step will lead to a page giving full individual details 
on your course/university.  Thanks to all who have responded.  We're 
sure the rest of the input is on its way....

Annual Renewal

GAP Membership is renewable on an annual basis.  The simple renewal 
process requires you to print out the GAP Agreement, date, sign and fax 
it back to the AdaCore offices.  If you have received a request to 
renew, please check  you have sent the form back to ensure your 
continued access to the GNAT Academic Program!!

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