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Contact:
Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
Tel - +1 781 444 0404 ext. 142
E-mail - pr@omg.org
OMG Announces Program for Software-Based
Communications Workshop:
"Expanding the Vision"
August 16-19, 2005; San Diego, CA
Needham, MA, USA - June 6, 2005 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™),
a software consortium responsible for establishing distributed computing
specifications, today announced the program for its 2nd annual workshop on
Software-Based Communications entitled "Expanding the Vision."
Sponsored by Boeing (www.boeing.com),
the workshop will take place August 16-19, 2005 in San Diego, CA, USA.
Media sponsors for the event are RF Design (http://rfdesign.com/)
and PlanetEE (http://www.planetee.com/).
The workshop is open to anyone interested in software application
portability and interoperability for software-defined radios (SDR) and
areas of application including government, defense, automotive, public
safety, global tracking, consumer electronics and cellular network
infrastructure. The four-day program will include half-day tutorials on
relevant technologies as well as presentations, panels and discussions.
There will also be technology exhibits and demonstrations on Wednesday and
Thursday of the workshop. The early-bird registration discount is
available until July 18, 2005. To register, visit http://www.omg.org/sbc-r.
Highlights of the program include the following tutorials, session
topics and panel discussions.
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Tutorial topics:
o SCA Naming Service, Event Service and Component
Connections, by Neli Hayes, Director & Principal Software
Architect, The Boeing Company;
o Overview of MDA® and its Application in SDR, by Dr.
Robert R. Wang, Embedded Software Engineer, The Boeing Company;
o High Assurance Security and Safety for Software-Based
Communications, by Joe Jacob, Senior Vice President and Gordon
Uchenick, Mentor/Principal Engineer, Objective Interface Systems;
o OMG PIM and PSM for Software Radio Components
Specification Overview, by Gerald Bickle, Engineering Fellow,
Raytheon, Kevin Richardson, Software Systems Engineer, MITRE, and
Tansu Demirbilek, Systems Engineer, Mercury Computer Systems;
o Technical Overview of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
Software Communications Architecture, by Neli Hayes, Director &
Principal Software Architect, The Boeing Company
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Session topics - Tools and Methodologies;
Standards; Security; Commercial SDR; Interoperability; Performance;
SBC Case Studies and Experience Reports-with presenters from BAE
Systems, PrismTech, Zeligsoft Inc., The Boeing Company, Real-Time
Innovations, University of Athens Dept. of Informatics and
Telecommunications, Booz Allen Hamilton, Objective Interface Systems,
THALES Communications, and L-3 Communications
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Panel - SDR: the Next Generation;
panelists will include Alden Fuchs, Samsung Information Systems
America, Alan Gatherer, CTO-Communications Infrastructure, Texas
Instruments, John Hanrahan, Technical Director, The Boeing Company and
other panelists TBA
The OMG invites Software-based Communications users and vendors to
attend. Complete agenda, hotel and registration information is available
at http://www.omg.org/sbc-i.
Exhibit space is available; for more information visit http://www.omg.org/sbc-d
or contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org,
+1 781-444-0404.
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About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports
a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI,
the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the
MDA®, include the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Common
Warehouse Metamodel (CWM™). CORBA®, the Common Object Request Broker
Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of
deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object
Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit
computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG
can be found at www.omg.org.
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