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1995 Software Conferencr Update (1Mar95) (from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 41, 1 March 1995) The Fifth Annual Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) will be held in Tucson on 22-25 October 1995. The Conference will be hosted by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. Additional sponsors include the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (tentative), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the National Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation (tentative), the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and the University of Arizona Steward Observatory. The ADASS Conference provides a forum for scientists and programmers concerned with algorithms, software, and software systems employed in the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. The Program Organizing Committee for ADASS V has the following members: Rudi Albrecht (ST-ECF/ESO), Roger Brissenden (SAO), Tim Cornwell (NRAO), Dennis Crabtree (DAO/CADC), Bob Hanisch - Chair (STScI), Rick Harnden (SAO), Gareth Hunt (NRAO), George Jacoby (NOAO), Barry Madore (IPAC), Dick Shaw (STScI), Karen Strom (University of Massachusetts), and Doug Tody (NOAO). The Local Organizing Committee is chaired by Jeannette Barnes (softconf@noao.edu). Plans for this year's Conference are now underway. The meeting agenda will consist of invited and contributed talks and poster sessions on the following special topics: 1) real-time and nearly real-time systems and data acquisition, 2) archives of ground-based data, 3) astronomy science software applications, and 4) software architectures and development methodologies. Several birds-of-a-feather sessions (BOFs) are also planned. BOFs generally run 1 1/2 - 2 hours, often concurrently with other BOFs, and can be any format defined by the organizer. If anyone has a suggestion for a BOF or would like to organize one please let us know as soon as possible so it can be included in the program (contact hanisch@stsci.edu or softconf@noao.edu). Current plans are for a BOF on the future of astronomical software development projects and methodologies, an IRAF User's Group meeting, and a FITS BOF. The Proceedings of the Conference will be published as part of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, as were those of previous Conferences. An e-mail update will be sent to the Conference electronic mailing list this coming spring. A preliminary program will be sent by posted mail in May containing registration and hotel information and a call for papers. New information will be posted to the World Wide Web as it becomes available or made available in our anonymous FTP directory (see below). Further information about ADASS '95 is available by sending e-mail to softconf@noao.edu or by using a Web viewer to browse the Conference home page URL: http://iraf.noao.edu/ADASS/adass.html. Registration materials and other information will be made available by anonymous FTP to iraf.noao.edu in the directory iraf/conf/adass-95. Jeannette Barnes, George Jacoby, Doug Tody
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