Description: Most software development tasks involve either the creation of a database schema or the maintenance and updating of an existing schema. Both cases present developers with a wide array of challenges including:

• How do you instantiate a fresh version of the latest schema?
• How do we track changes that were made to the schema?
• How do we keep the "code" that generates our schema database independent?
• How can we instantiate a previous version of the database?
• How can we easily load data into the database?
• How do we separate test and development data?

Each of these challenges becomes more complex to deal with as the size of the development team increases. This talk will present the concept of database migrations and give developers the tools to deal with these issues.

Slides from Presentation: Download DatabaseMigrations.pdf here.

Sample file: Download MigratePlus here.

Description: The development and maintenance of quality software involves the knowledge and awareness of many facets of an organization that come from many sources, in many forms, and across many software and hardware platforms. Standards play a vital role in the representation of knowledge to meet the quality requirements of an organization.

Knowledge Management techniques provide an integrated and accessible portal for this knowledge. A major source of application knowledge is derived from Reverse Engineering techniques, one of which is meta-data.

The impact of Knowledge Management and Reverse Engineering tools and processes upon Software Quality Assurance is explored, and found to be a definite positive influence upon the generation and maintenance of quality software systems.

Description: Jini is a Java-based service framework for distributed systems that relies on concepts like dynamic service discovery, leasing, and proxies. The latest release of Jini introduced a wealth of improvements over earlier versions while still enabling the creation and deployment of very robust services. None of Jini's functionality, however, is easy to use right out-of-the-box. This presentation will take a straightforward approach to allow developers new to Jini to quickly utilize this powerful technology.

During the course of this session, a service will first be created and then deployed as a distributed Jini service. Along the way, concepts like exporters, configuration files, and lookup services will be introduced. Then the Jini service will be packaged up and deployed and a client will dynamically discover and use it. There will be code examples and demonstrations to highlight key aspects. Throughout the presentation, the critical aspects of the Jini architecture will be introduced helping to identify what in the framework is important, necessary, or just nice to have.

This presentation is targeted at Java developers who are either new to Jini or have only used earlier versions of the Jini framework.

Description: Broadcast radio has been around for almost a century. By the early 1990's, radio was the notable standout in a world of mass media going digital. Through the 1990's, a handful of businesses took on the problem of bringing radio in to the digital age, and by the turn of the millennium, a technology known as In-Band On-Channel (IBOC) digital broadcasting had established itself as the likely solution. Today, the technology is in use by more than 1200 AM and FM stations nationwide.

This presentation will provide a behind-the-scenes view of HD Radio™, including:

• competing technologies
• IBOC modulation schemes
• interference mitigation techniques
• modernization of existing broadcast facilities
• new applications for terrestrial radio

A live demo and lunch will also be included.

Description: Scott Bennett, head of SRA's Advanced Technology Group (ATG) will be joining us from 11:30 - 12:30 to present the Geollect technology. Geollect works in conjunction with software installed on a Tom-Tom navigation system in order to track and manage vehicles equipped with the Tom-Tom navigation system.

The software on the Tom-Tom is capable of interacting fully with the navigation application -- getting position, planning routes, issuing alerts, plotting additional vehicles on the display, changing points of interest, setting up itineraries, etc... Naturally, through the wireless link with the Tom-Tom this can all be performed remotely.

Description: Hiding data in images and to a lesser extent, audio and video, has been heavily researched, yet still remains a challenge to law enforcement. Tools to detect this hidden data are limited and not comprehensive, but they are available, and law enforcement is generally aware of the existence of these data hiding techniques.

Other less renowned techniques, such as hiding inside an executable program, may not even be contemplated as a possibility and as such, may be overlooked. Very little research has been published on hiding data inside an executable program and as a result, there are few if any tools that detect this sophisticated type of data hiding.

I will briefly explore the Windows PE file format, present methods to exploit this format for data hiding, explore the implications of hiding data inside an executable, discuss tool requirements for detecting hijacked executables, and finally demonstrate an application of a malicious program hiding inside a normal program.

Description: You've heard about the Scrum process, but does it work in the real world?

Emerson Brooks will present experiences using Scrum on two RABA projects. One project involves the building of tools aimed at improving cross-community knowledge collaboration. The other project is a system designed to facilitate tracking operational and technical requirements, and to track the development and delivery of tools and techniques used to fulfill those requirements.

The presentation will include a brief synopsis of the mechanics of the Scrum process, followed by a case study of Scrum's impact on each of these projects.

Description: "Library science needs to be reborn for the digital age." – Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Labs

Everyone knows that quality software is important. But as customers contend with unprecedented amounts of data and complexity, is quality software enough? What sciences and disciplines can software developers and architects borrow from to improve the quality of our systems and our customers' experience?

This talk will provide an introduction to emerging disciplines aimed at improving the quality of the systems we develop and deploy. Information architecture and cognitive science as it applies to software development will be discussed. Additionally, practical tips and suggestions for applying concepts from these disciplines will be provided.

• NetOwl Extractor
• NetOwl DocMatcher
• NetOwl TextMiner
• NetOwl InstaLink
• NetOwl Summarizer

1. Review architecture of Teradata Active Enterprise Intelligence
2. Discussions on associated topics, not limited to
   1. meta data repository
   2. ingest strength/parallel analytics
   3. distributed networks
   4. key strengths of architecture and the bigger picture (working with Oracle)
   5. ROI data and customer examples