(This was posted on comp.lang.ada on 1994-11-18) ***************************************************************** Ada 9X TECHNOLOGY INSERTION ON CAMPUS: AWARDS MADE FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT ***************************************************************** DATELINE: October 28, 1994 Grants have been made in response to this summer's Broad Area Announcement (BAA) for proposals for developing Ada curricula. The goal of the BAA was to encourage university development of undergraduate educational curricula, course materials, and innovative presentation tools or methods for demonstrating the use of the Ada 9X programming language. The Department of Defense is reinforcing its commitment to Ada by responding to the demands of the DoD development community by striving to increase use of Ada in the academic community. Ada 9X is unique because it provides a sound engineering approach to object-oriented design. This round of university awards will produce Ada 9X courseware that will be distributed free via CD-ROM to the private and public sector. The round of proposals for grants concluded with the following awards: Florida International Univ.: Development of an Ada Base 2 Semester Intro Computer Science/Software Engineering Course and a Multi-Media Instructional Software Montana State Univ.: Ada in a 4 Course, Breadth First, Introductory Computer Science Curriculum Santa Clara University Data Structures with Ada 9X State University of New York at Binghamton (cost-shared): Teaching formal methods using Ada and related analysis and synthesis tools Univ. of Alabama: Ada Curriculum Development Workshops Univ. of Illinois at Chicago: A Software Engineering Course Sequence for Distributed and Real-Time Systems Univ. of Scranton: Ada 9X resources to support and improve a breadth first approach to CS2 York College: Design and Implementation of a Software Engineering Course Sequence for Undergraduate Computer Majors (emphasizing use of Ada) The Ada Joint Program Office intends to announce next years BAA's for Ada 9X at the June 1994, Ada Software Engineering Education and Training (ASEET) Symposium in Morgantown, West Virginia. [Source: Don Reifer, AJPO Director] These grants supplement the approximately 40 contracts awarded last year for similar purposes. DISA expects to issue another BAA for Ada educational grants in April/May 1995. Those interested in receiving the announcement and a brochure detailing the program should write to LT L. Michelle Smith, Ada Joint Program Office, Center for Software, 5600 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204 (Posted to comp.lang.ada 1994-12-23)
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