Ada Expert Robert A. Duff Joins AdaCore Team.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AdaCore, a leading Ada technology supplier, today announced the appointment of Ada expert Robert A. Duff to the company's core technical team. Mr. Duff will be responsible for designing and implementing enhancements to the GNAT gnat, common name for any one of a number of small, fragile-looking two-winged flies of the suborder Nematocera, order Diptera, which includes the families Tipulidae (crane flies), Bibionidae (hairflies), Ceratopogonidae (biting midges), Chironomidae (true midges), Pro Ada Development Environment. Mr. Duff brings to AdaCore more than 24 years of technical expertise that includes the design of software system architecture, programming languages, compilers, real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. , parallel and distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , and software development tools. Mr. Duff was a key member of the language design team for Ada 95, the 1995 revision of the Ada programming language, which included support for object-oriented programming object-oriented programming, a modular approach to computer program (software) design. Each module, or object, combines data and procedures (sequences of instructions) that act on the data; in traditional, or procedural, programming the data are separated from the , data-oriented synchronization, programming-in-the-large, and real-time systems. He also authored major portions of the Ada 95 International Standard. Mr. Duff has served as co-chair for the Ada Rapporteur rap·por·teur n. One who is designated to give a report, as at a meeting. [Middle English raportour, judge, from Old French raporteur, from raporter, to bring back Group, which is responsible for evaluating comments concerning the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. standard for Ada. "Bob Duff is well respected by the Ada community both as an authority and dedicated proponent of the Ada programming language, so he and AdaCore are an ideal match," said Robert Dewar, President of AdaCore. "Having worked closely with Bob on the Ada 95 revision, we know he will be an asset to us as we continue to improve and streamline our Ada development solutions." Most recently, Mr. Duff served as Vice President of Engineering for SofCheck, Inc., where he was responsible for designing and implementing a static analysis tool to detect errors in Ada and Java programs. He has also served as Chief Scientist, Language Tools, at Intermetrics, Inc.; President and Consultant for Oak Tree Software, Inc.; Director of Engineering for Software Leverage, Inc.; and as a system software designer for AAI Corporation. Robert Duff holds a B.S. in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University. About AdaCore Founded in 1994, AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial, open-source software solutions for Ada, a modern programming language designed for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are absolutely critical. AdaCore's flagship product is GNAT Pro, the commercial-grade open-source Ada development environment, which comes with expert online support and is available on more platforms than any other Ada technology. AdaCore has customers worldwide; see http://www.adacore.com/customers.php for more information. Use of Ada and GNAT Pro continues to grow in high-integrity and safety-critical applications, including commercial and defense aircraft avionics, air traffic control, railroad systems, financial services and medical devices. AdaCore has North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters in New York and European headquarters in Paris. www.adacore.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion