SV: [GAP] GAP e-newletter

[Kathryn Fairlamb]

Apologies to all - this should not have been sent to the discussion 
list. I have changed Lars' password.

Kathy

Kathryn Fairlamb wrote:

> Hi Lars,
> Your GAP n° is ACT#2000, the login is lars.asplund at mdh.se and I have 
> reset your password to 7b23RStu
> Remember to login to GNATtracker from the Academic page and not the 
> home page of the website.
> Hope this helps,
> Kathy
>
> Lars Asplund wrote:
>
>> Dear Kathryn,
>>
>> Once again, I have put the GAP-number and password so I cannot find 
>> it. Can
>> you update me. We are just about to start a new course, and gps and gnat
>> will be installed on a new set of student machines.
>>
>> /Lars
>>
>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
>> Från: gap-bounces at gnat.info [mailto:gap-bounces at gnat.info] För Kathryn
>> Fairlamb
>> Skickat: den 15 januari 2007 10:51
>> Till: gap at adacore.info
>> Ämne: [GAP] GAP e-newletter
>>
>> A Happy New Year to you all!
>>
>> AdaCore is please to present the first GAP e-newsletter!
>>
>> Planned for release on a twice-yearly basis, the aim of the 
>> newsletter is to provide GAP members with a concise summary of new 
>> GAP tools and features, highlight recent and upcoming 
>> academically-oriented events, and share tips in order to help you and 
>> your students benefit as much as possible from the products and 
>> services available through the program.
>>
>> Happy reading!
>>
>> The AdaCore Team
>>
>> *********************************************
>> CONTENTS
>>
>> Ada 2005 uptake in the GAP community
>> Next GNAT GPL release 2007
>> Ada Intern Program update
>> 'Programming in Ada 2005', by John Barnes - 10% discount on further 
>> orders
>> Coming soon -  Ada 2005 Jewel of the Week!
>> Upcoming events
>> Spotlight on the University of Northern Iowa
>> New members
>>
>> ***
>> ADA 2005 UPTAKE IN THE GAP COMMUNITY
>>
>> One of the most exciting developments in 2006 was the arrival of the 
>> new revision of the language, Ada 2005. The current GNAT GPL version 
>> available for GAP members enables professors and students to benefit 
>> from almost all of the new features introduced in Ada 2005, including 
>> improvements to the Object Oriented model, more flexible access 
>> types, enhanced structure and sisibility control, Real-Time Annex-D 
>> improvements (including the Ravenscar profile),  improvements to 
>> exceptions, numerics and generics, and extensions to the standard 
>> library.
>>
>> Several GAP members have already integrated elements of the new 
>> language revision in their courses. Among them are:
>> Naval Postgraduate School, USA (Programming Paradigms class);
>> Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (Real-Time Systems course);
>> University of Northern Iowa, USA (Data Structures course);
>> University of Padua, Italy, (some Master-level projects);
>> University of Sydney, Australia (Real-Time Computing course).
>>
>> Feel free to share your Ada 2005 teaching experiences with the GAP 
>> community at any time via the GAP discussion list at gap at adacore.info
>>
>> ***
>> NEXT GNAT GPL RELEASE 2007
>>
>> You can look forward to the new GNAT GPL release later this year, 
>> incorporating even more Ada 2005 features. The exact date is yet to 
>> be fixed, but is sure to happen before the summer, in order to give 
>> you plenty of time to update your courses for the next academic year.
>>
>> ***
>> ADA INTERN PROGRAM UPDATE
>>
>> Signing up for the Ada Intern Program will soon be available to your 
>> students when they download the GNAT GPL Edition via the Libre site 
>> at https://libre2.adacore.com/. Participation in this program, whose 
>> purpose is to bring together Ada knowledgeable students and AdaCore 
>> customers searching for Ada knowledgeable interns, is currently 
>> reserved for teachers only on behalf of their students, via GNAT 
>> Tracker. We hope that the new framework will encourage students to be 
>> more proactive in targeting Ada specific projects in their search for 
>> qualitative work experience.
>>
>> Look for an announcement of this new student service in February 2007.
>>
>> ***
>> PROGRAMMING IN ADA 2005, by John Barnes - 10% DISCOUNT ON FURTHER ORDERS
>>
>> AdaCore was very happy to be able to offer each GAP member a free 
>> copy of the latest updated edition of John Barnes's highly successful 
>> 'Programming in Ada' series, titled (unsurprisingly yet accurately!) 
>> 'Programming in Ada 2005'.
>>
>> Now, GAP members and Ada students can continue to benefit from 
>> discount prices on further copies of the book by following the link 
>> from the Academic homepage on the AdaCore website at 
>> http://www.adacore.com/home/academia/. If you are a new GAP member 
>> and have not received your free copy, please contact AdaCore at 
>> gap-contact at adacore.com.
>>
>> Note that a range of books, teaching materials and lab materials are 
>> available for download free of charge, courtesy of their authors, 
>> from the "Contributions" page of GNAT Tracker.
>>
>> ***
>> COMING SOON - ADA 2005 JEWEL OF THE WEEK!
>>
>> We plan to launch in January, via the GAP discussion list at 
>> gap at adacore.info, a series of weekly tips on how to discover the 
>> multitude of hidden jewels in Ada 2005. These gems, initially offered 
>> by AdaCore experts, will aim to cover a range of subjects such as the 
>> limited_with clause, mutually recursive types, interfaces, anonymous 
>> access types, and the containers library.
>>
>> Do not hesitate to share your own Ada gems with other members of the 
>> GAP community via the discussion list.
>>
>> ***
>> UPCOMING EVENTS
>>
>> Below are the forthcoming academia-oriented events which AdaCore 
>> intends to support. Please let your fellow GAP members know, via the 
>> Discussion List at gap at adacore.info, if you are planning to attend 
>> and/or present a paper at any of the following:
>>
>> SIGCSE, March 7-10, 2007, Kentucky, USA
>> http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/index.shtml
>> Following the success of last year's event (1200 attendees!), AdaCore 
>> will again be exhibiting at this event.
>>
>> Ada Europe, June 25-29, 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
>> Last year's event in Porto, Portugal was very well attended by the 
>> GAP community, as well as by AdaCore staff! AdaCore will again be 
>> actively participating in this year's event, a cornerstone in the Ada 
>> community calendar.
>>
>> We look forward to seeing you there!
>>
>> ***
>> SPOTLIGHT ON .... THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA
>>
>> In each newsletter, we intend to place a different GAP member in the 
>> spotlight and show how and why Ada is being used for teaching 
>> purposes in universities around the world. In this first edition, the 
>> spotlight is on the University of Northern Iowa, and the Department 
>> of Prof. John McCormick.
>>
>> Signing up for GAP was a natural decision for UNI and for Prof. 
>> McCormick, since he has been using Ada and GNAT in Computer Science 
>> courses there since 1997. GNAT was first selected for an 
>> upper-division course on concurrent programming, where it was 
>> enthusiatically embraced by students and faculty. GNAT and Ada are 
>> currently being used in a traditional data structures course, and 
>> will likely be adopted in a fundamentals course that focuses on 
>> software engineering.
>>
>> "The GAP toolset is installed on all computers in our public 
>> laboratories. It is used in our CS3 (Data Structures) couse and by 
>> students who have a choice of programming language in other courses. 
>> Students commonly use Ada/GAP in Algorithms and Operating Systems."
>>
>> ***
>> NEW MEMBERS!!
>>
>> And finally, 2006 saw a continued steady growth of the GAP community, 
>> which currently stands at 140 members, from 121 schools and 
>> universities in 25 countries. A particular welcome to our newest 
>> members:
>>
>> California Polytechnic State University, CA, USA
>> Carroll College, WI, USA
>> Cranfield University, United Kingdom
>> ENST Bretagne, France
>> George Mason University, VA, USA
>> Indiana Wesleyan University, IN, USA
>> James Madison University, VA, USA
>> Lenoir-Rhyne College, NC, USA
>> Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore
>> Poznan University of Technology, Poland
>> Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
>> Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA
>> St. Thomas University, FL, USA
>> Texas A&M, TX, USA
>> Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany
>> Truman State University, MO, USA
>> University of Alaska, AK, USA
>> University of Bari, Italy
>> University of Idaho, ID, USA
>> University of Illinois at Springfield, IL, USA
>> University of Maryland, MD, USA
>> University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
>> University of Zielona Gora, Poland
>> UPMF-IUT2, Grenoble
>> Voronezh State University, Russian Federation
>>
>> ***********************************************************************
>>
>>
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