Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Newsletter

Issue 10 - 9th January 1995

Editor - Hugh Glaser

Today's Seminar

The DSSE talk on Monday the 9th January at 13:00 will be a double bill:

Keith Phalp: The RADs(Role Activity Diagrams)
Geetha Abeysinghe: The ProcessWise WorkBench

Seminar Programme - Geetha Abeysinghe

The DSSE talks/discussions will commence on the 9th of January 1995. The list of speakers for the month of January is:

9th. Jan. Keith Phalp: The RADs(Role Activity Diagrams) Geetha Abeysinghe: The ProcessWise WorkBench
16th Jan. Dayroosh Karami: Quality Control in Software
23rd Jan. M A Pasha : Logic Programming Environment for Hypermedia Information Management
30th Jan. Jonathan Martin : Constraint Logic programming

New Research Fellow and a Visitor

New faces around the Group 1: Mark Longley

Mark is located in the Declarative Systems and Software Engineering Laboratory, Room 3055 Mountbatten.

He is working on improving the implementation of logic programming languages in connection with our EPSRC/ESPRIT contracts in Logic Programming.

New faces around the Group 2: Wouter van Oortmerssen.

Wouter is an Erasmus student from the University of Amsterdam, and is here for the next three months. He is mainly working with Vicki on design and implementation of BLA, a language which combines functions and objects.

HPC Centre Courses

Ade Millar has sent a message round. I have posted the full text to ecs.research.dsl.

The HPC Centre is running the following courses (provisional timetable) in the 1st quarter of 1995:

20th Jan An Introduction to Message Passing
24th Jan Introduction to Unix (am only)
24th Jan The Computing Services Unix Environment (lunchtime only)
31st Jan An Introduction to MPI
2nd Feb A Brief Introduction to Fortran 90 (pm only)
10th Feb Introduction to AVS
2nd Mar Introduction to Unix (am only)
2nd Mar The Computing Services Unix Environment (lunchtime only)
7th Mar A Brief Introduction to Fortran 90 (pm only)
15th Mar Introduction to AVS

Unless otherwise stated all courses last for the full day. Summaries for individual courses are attached to the bottom of this message.

Further details of all courses can be obtained from Ade Miller (asm@par.soton.ac.uk). He is also the person to mail if you get sent more than one copy of this message.

Copy deadline: 5pm Friday for Monday's newsletter, but send the articles any time.

Hugh Glaser
Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Group
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton