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Interesting new UK conference
HIS 2014 is announced as “the UK conference for sharing information about the key challenges and recent developments in high integrity software engineering. This one day conference will be held in Bristol, UK on 23rd October 2014 and will feature presentations on current industrial experience as well as keynote talks from leading industry experts.”
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Parallel Programming Languages Enable Safer Systems
Languages that use garbage collection pose tricky issues for military system developers. In this recent article COTS journal article, Tucker Taft looks at innovative new parallel programming techniques that offer a safer solution.
http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/articles/view/104120
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Software Glitches: Why We Shouldn’t Put Up With Them
Robert Dewar discusses why software glitches are unacceptable in this day and age. Software Glitches: Why We Shouldn’t Put Up With Them
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Trusted Key Manager for IKEv2
The HSR University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland has implemented the TKM from scratch using the Ada programming language. The new Design-by-Contract feature of Ada 2012 has been used for the implementation of state machines, to augment the confidence of operation according to the specification. The TKM works in conjunction with the strongSwan IKEv2 daemon [...]
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Sparkel Programming Language
Sparkel is a new parallel programming language inspired by the SPARK subset of Ada, and designed to support the development of inherently safe and secure, highly parallel applications that can be mapped to multicore, manycore, heterogeneous, or distributed architectures.
To learn more about Sparkel and to follow the project, please visit http://www.sparkel.org
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Ada for the C++ or Java Developer
This document will present the Ada language using terminology and examples that are familiar to developers that understand the C++ or Java languages.
To download the booklet, please visit this page
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Safe and Secure Software – An Invitation to Ada 2012
The aim of this booklet is to show how the study of Ada in general, and the features introduced by Ada 2005 and Ada 2012 in particular, can help anyone designing safe and secure software regardless of the programming language in which the software is eventually written. After all, successful implementers of safe and secure [...]
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