TimeSys Executives Support Standards Groups; Locke Elected to OMG's Architecture Board Gerhardt to Chair Open Group's API Committee.Business/Technology Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000 TimeSys(TM) Corporation today announced that two members of its executive staff will serve in new positions for industry standards groups. Dr. Doug Locke to OMG's Architecture Board TimeSys Corporation's Vice President of Technology, Dr. Douglass Locke, has been elected to the 10-member Architecture Board of the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ). The OMG's Architecture Board reviews and approves changes or additions recommended by the OMG committees for Platform Technology or Domain Technology. Locke has been a CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global and POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX) An IEEE 1003.1 standard that defines the language interface between application programs and the Unix operating system. supporter for many years. Locke was previously chief scientist for Lockheed Martin/Owego. He is also a member of the Real-Time Java Experts Group, which is drafting the Real-Time Java standard and a long-standing member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. POSIX standards body. He was program chair and general chair of the IEEE 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. Symposia, 1991 and 1992 respectively, and he served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems 1997-1998. Locke has also been a senior advisor In some countries, a Senior Advisor is an appointed position by the Head of State to advise on the highest levels of national and government policy. Sometimes a junior position to this is called a National Policy Advisor. on many large, high-performance projects in defense, avionics, automotive, telecommunications and postal system postal system System that allows persons to send letters, parcels, or packages to addressees in the same country or abroad. Postal systems are usually government-run and paid for by a combination of user charges and government subsidies. projects. Chief Scientist, Mark Gerhardt to Chair Open Group's API Committee Chief Architect at TimeSys Corporation, Mark S. Gerhardt, is to chair the API Library Committee for the Open Group (formerly the Open Software Foundation). Gerhardt's committee is chartered with defining and developing new, higher level-thus non-proprietary-Application Programming Interfaces. Common, high-level API standards will allow for the portability of tools and applications between various platforms and systems. Common or standard APIs allow developers to mix/match products from multiple vendors. Because most platform vendors have proprietary APIs, portability is not a characteristic of today's tools and applications. For example, applications for Windows OS-based platforms will not run on Unix/Linux system platforms without a great deal of program modification, likely including a rewritten API. Gerhardt is regarded as an expert in building mission-critical, real-time systems, particularly for the defense industry. He has more than 25 years experience as a senior architect for many Department of Defense (DoD) systems and has worked at Raytheon, TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc and Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. . He was a distinguished reviewer for the design of the Ada 83 and Ada 95 languages. He has also conducted many training courses for companies such as Lockheed Martin Corporation and elsewhere on the use of 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 techniques within distributed real-time systems. Locke and Gerhardt Offer More Than 60 Years Combined Experience For several years at TimeSys, Locke and Gerhardt have been and are still involved in consulting activities as well as in the presentation of training seminars about the development of embedded, real-time systems. About TimeSys Corporation TimeSys Corporation is the leading vendor of embedded real-time Linux solutions. The company has a strong team of world-renowned experts and application engineers affiliated with premier institutions in real-time systems. The blend of application experience and research expertise in domains such as telecommunications, defense and automotive provides TimeSys with the unique ability to apply currently evolving techniques to solve real-world problems. -- TimeSys is a registered trademark of TimeSys Corporation. All other companies, organizations, product or brand names are the trademarks of their respective holders. |
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