Monthly archive

May 2011

Tornados of April 27th and Status

Submitted by JoelSherrill on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 09:40

On Wednesday April 27, 2011, much of the southern United States was hit by one of the worst tornado storm systems in recorded history. I expect that all of you have seen some news reports about this. OAR Corporation is in Huntsville Alabama and hosts the servers and lab for the RTEMS Project. None of OAR was damaged but the main power transmission lines for north Alabama and Mississippi were destroyed by the storm. There are still areas in our county without power one week later.

Trac Tickets PR Shortcut Available

Submitted by JoelSherrill on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 09:43

This isn't exactly ground breaking news but there is a new handy feature on the RTEMS.org. You can now access a specific RTEMS Trac Tickets by adding "nnnn" to http://devel.rtems.org/ticket/.

New Book Features Information on RTEMS

Submitted by JoelSherrill on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 11:06

The new book Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada features information on Ada and RTEMS. John McCormick was kind of enough to allow me to use the examples from this book for a SIGAda 2011 tutorial. One of these was a coffee vending machine examples which morphed into variants with a command line and web interface. Below is the press release.

John W. McCormick, University of Northern Iowa
Frank Singhoff, Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Passing of Dr James Johannes

Submitted by JoelSherrill on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 13:42

Dr James Johannes passed away earlier this week. He founded On-Line Applications Research (OAR) Corporation in 1978. He was an Emeritus Professor of the Computer Science department faculty at University of Alabama in Huntsville and was the first head of the department. Based upon the number of dissertations on the shelves at OAR, he advised over twenty-five successful Ph.D. students. When he retired, he was serving as the Graduate Dean of the UAH College of Science.