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November 2001 Vol. 13/No. 5 Community Service Rotators Help Shape NSF Programs Opportunities By George Strawn By Jim Foley, CRA Chair As readers will know, NSF research programs are run by program The computing research com- completed full-time service roles and directors (PDs), who are a mix of munity is effective for two reasons: returned to their academic positions. federal employees and rotators. Our great researchers, and great researchers Shankar Sastry (Berkeley) served for rotator PDs provide NSF with, who are willing to give some of their two years as Director of the Infor- among other things, an “academic time to serve the research community. mation Technology Office at flavor” that helps to make it the least There are a number of ways to DARPA, where he was responsible bureaucratic of federal agencies. provide service to the community. for a computing research budget in Rotators are indispensable in helping For example, it might take the form excess of $200M. Ruzena Bajcsy to provide the staff power to get our of reviewing papers and proposals or (Penn) completed more than 3 years work done. So the first reason to by serving on editorial boards, review as CISE assistant director—the consider coming to NSF as a rotator longest serving CISE AD since the panels, or conference program com- is to help assure our ability to con- directorate was created, and the first mittees. Or it might involve chairing tinue providing research support to woman to hold this position. Ruzena George Strawn a program or serving as editor-in- the CISE community. managed a directorate budget that chief of a journal. Virtually everyone grew from approximately $300M And there are personal benefits to does some of this on a part-time basis. when she joined NSF to more than If you are a mid-career or senior being a rotator as well as benefits to Service might also be provided to $450M during the past fiscal year. computer and/or information science the CISE community. First, you have a broader community through a part- CRA honored Ruzena for her service and/or engineering faculty member the interesting experience of helping time role as a member or officer of at a reception in August (see photo (briefly, a member of the CISE com- to shape the NSF program(s) serving the CRA board of directors. And elsewhere in this issue). munity), why should you consider your area of expertise. This can opportunities exist on a national Our thanks to Ruzena and coming to NSF as an “Intergovern- involve re-focusing a program’s area level to serve full-time in a rotating Shankar, and to the many other rota- mental Personnel Act (IPA) and/or developing new program position at a government agency. tors who serve or have served at assignee” for a couple of years? And areas. Putting in place the right These government positions include NSF, DARPA, and other funding if you do consider it, how easy might program announcements and leading program director, division director, agencies. it be to do? the effort to evaluate and fund pro- or CISE assistant director at NSF; or Our community appears to be The author of this article, who posals written in response to those program manager and office director ambivalent about taking up this kind went to NSF twice as a “rotator,” will announcements can be both at DARPA or other government of full-time community service with offer some answers to these two ques- challenging and rewarding. funding agencies. a funding agency. Going to tions. (The informal term “rotator” Second, you not only have a This past year, two senior Washington, it is argued, disrupts can refer to both IPA and several chance to interact broadly with the members of our community CRN Continued on Page 11 other modes of temporary NSF members of your community, but you employment. I’ll use it here to refer also may want to get involved with Inside CRN to an “IPA rotator” because the IPA Rotators mechanism is usually the appropriate Continued on Page 7 Expanding the Pipeline ...... 2 Automatic Speech Recognition...... 4 one for a university faculty member Computer Engineering Numbers...... 3 Historical Taulbee Trends ...... 5 to use.) Research Lab Salaries...... 3 Professional Opportunities ...... 12 PAID
PITAC Reviews Progress, Moves Forward U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 993 NONPROFIT ORG. WASHINGTON, DC WASHINGTON, The President’s Information and the uncertainties in the economy. problem and a compromise is needed Technology Advisory Committee Overall, committee members that will address the needs of busi- (PITAC) met in Arlington, VA on expressed optimism that while this ness to collect information and the September 25 to review progress in new era offers many challenges, it need for consumers to protect their implementing the recommendations also presents new opportunities for personal information. This issue of its 1999 report, Information IT. From the perspective of the IT requires the attention of both Technology Research: Investing in Our workforce, some observed that more business and government. Future. Over the next few months researchers would return to and The Subcommittee on Socio- the findings of the original PITAC remain in universities, rather than economic, Education, and Workforce report will be revised and presented move to industry positions. There Issues (SEW) reported that while for comment at the committee’s next also was a sense among the members many high-quality grant applications meeting in February 2002. that the pace of innovation is con- had been submitted to participating In an address to the committee, tinuing, amid increasing consolida- agencies (NSF, DOE, NASA, and NSF Director Rita Colwell praised tion within technologies, industries, NIH), only a few could be funded. the 1999 report as influential and and infrastructure elements. Funding levels are still too low, and indicated that “PITAC is indispensable One panel (personal/individual to NSF.” In her view, “Investing in security) and four PITAC subcom- PITAC IT is one of the most important mittees provided briefings. The Continued on Page 7 things we can do for our country.” national security panel did not brief She announced at the meeting that the committee at this time. Infor- NSF would make 309 awards totaling mation on the briefings is available Our thoughts and con- $156 million as part of the on the Web at: http://www.itrd.gov/ dolences go out to Information Technology Research ac/agendas/agenda-25sep01.html. members of the comput- (ITR) initiative. More than 2,000 Some brief highlights of the reports proposals were received. are provided here. ing research community, The committee devoted one ses- The Panel on Personal/Individual their families, and friends sion to a discussion of issues resulting Security reported that it had met who suffered losses from from recent changes in the environ- with a number of government the September attacks in ment of the IT industry. Among agencies and will meet with privacy New York and at the these are the changing fortunes of advocates. One finding is that a fun- Pentagon. many dot-com companies, the drop damental definition of ‘identity’ is in the availability of venture capital, needed. Identity theft is a major CRA NW 1100 Seventeenth Street, Suite 507 DC 20036-4632 Washington, COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Expanding the Pipeline Computing Research Transforming the Culture of Computing at Association Board Officers Carnegie Mellon James Foley Chair By Lenore Blum Georgia Institute of Technology This article is an abridged version of careers in the United States has then Associate Dean for the under- Janice Cuny “Women in Computer Science: The declined precipitously during the past graduate program, spearheaded an Vice Chair Carnegie Mellon Experience,” a chapter decade, and suggest this is unlikely to intensive effort to understand and University of Oregon that will appear in The Innovative change. Whether or not this conclu- change the representation of women. Kathleen McKeown Secretary University, Daniel P. Resnick and sion is valid, it is the view of many He collaborated with Jane Margolis, Columbia University Dana S. Scott, Eds., Carnegie Mellon observers in the field, and indeed was a social scientist and expert in gen- John Stankovic University Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002. cited by Rita Colwell, Director of der equity in education, on a Treasurer Permission granted by Carnegie Mellon the National Science Foundation, in research study aimed at acquiring a University of Virginia University Press. Faye Miller assisted her keynote address at the 2001 deeper understanding of the Board Members with the original report. Grace Hopper Celebration of nature of the problem and estab- Philip Bernstein Women in Computing. lishing a sound basis from which Microsoft Research In 1995, the Computer Science We hope the Carnegie Mellon to develop interventions. Randal Bryant Department at Carnegie Mellon experience may offer inspiration, Funded by the Sloan Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University University (CMU) began an effort to ideas, and concrete suggestions to the project consisted of hundreds of Doris Carver bring more women into its under- others who wish to reverse this interviews with both male and Louisiana State University graduate computer science (CS) pro- perceived trend. female CS students about their histo- Lori Clarke University of Massachusetts gram. At that time, just 7 percent (7 ries with computing, interests, moti- out of 96) of entering freshman com- Why (and How) the vations and aspirations, reasons for Timothy Finin Increase? University of Maryland, puter science majors at Carnegie majoring in CS, and their experi- Baltimore County Mellon were women. Five years It may be helpful first to say a few ences in the undergraduate program. Peter Freeman later, in 1999, the percentage of words about the history and structure Conducted over a four-year period, Georgia Institute of Technology women in the entering class had of computer science at Carnegie the project was able to track many Ambuj Goyal increased fivefold to about 38 Mellon. The Computer Science students throughout their time at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center percent (50 out of 130). Department (CSD) and its Ph.D. CMU. By interviewing students Barbara Grosz once a semester, the researchers wit- Harvard University nessed the ups and downs of their James Horning experiences and changes in attitudes InterTrust Technologies Corp. r over time. Most importantly, they Andrew Hume AT&T Labs - Research were able to identify crucial periods in the students’ attachments to the Mary Jane Irwin Pennsylvania State University field, and factors that contributed to, Leah H. Jamieson or inhibited, their ability to succeed. Purdue University The study yielded significant Edward Lazowska insights into the many layers of the University of Washington problem, not only in terms of Nancy Leveson bringing women into computer Massachusetts Institute of science, but also of retaining them. Technology Four problem areas were identified: David Patterson 1) experience gaps, 2) confidence University of California, Berkeley doubts, 3) the curriculum and Guylaine M. Pollock Sandia National Laboratories pedagogy, and 4) peer culture. The findings of this study have Daniel Reed University of Illinois Rather than an endpoint, the program were inaugurated in 1965; been well documented elsewhere,5 at Urbana-Champaign increasing number of women in the the undergraduate major was not and we will not go into details here. Robert Schnabel program signifies the beginning of a instituted until 1988 (first as a Suffice it to say that the project set University of Colorado at Boulder crucial period of transition for Math/CS major and then in 1992 as the stage for further efforts, including Lawrence Snyder women in computer science at a CS major). Typically, students developing a blueprint for action, University of Washington CMU. We are now faced with the enter the computer science major as confirming hunches, and serving as an Mary Lou Soffa challenge of ensuring that women freshmen. In 1988, the department informational resource for faculty and University of Pittsburgh and men in the program thrive. evolved into the School of Computer other potentially supportive parties. Eugene Spafford Starting in the academic year Science (SCS), which now comprises Purdue University 1999-2000, there has been a con- seven departments (including the Summer Institute for AP CS Frank Tompa Teachers University of Waterloo certed effort to foster a community CSD), centers, and institutes of edu- 3 Moshe Vardi committed to this process. cation and research. Each of the Clearly the problem of few women Rice University Before outlining the factors that divisions offers graduate programs; entering the field of computer sci- Jeffrey Vitter have been crucial to the success of undergraduate students major in ence is inherited. For example, in Duke University our efforts thus far, it is worth noting CS, but can also dual major in 1997 only 17 percent of Advanced David Waltz that such dramatic increases in the another program. Placement (AP) CS test-takers were NEC Research Institute number of women in computer female, the lowest of any AP exam Elaine Weyuker science do not appear to be wide- Research Basis to Support that year.6 This amounted to a gain AT&T Labs - Research spread. In fact, the widely cited Change of only 1 percent in 10 years. William Woods statistics from the articles “The During its first several years, the In 1995, prompted by impending Sun Microsystems Laboratories Incredible Shrinking Pipeline”1 and undergraduate CS program was revisions in the AP CS exam, the Stuart Zweben “The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline plagued by very low numbers of NSF issued a call for proposals to Ohio State University Unlikely to Reverse”2 indicate that women–a trend common to most prepare high school teachers for the Executive Director the percentage of women entering comparable Ph.D.-granting CS change. Allan Fisher saw this as a William Aspray computer science programs and departments.4 In 1995, Allan Fisher, fortuitous opportunity to work with teachers to address gender-gap issues Affiliate Societies REMINDER TO CS AND CE CHAIRS: while they were motivated to gain new expertise. Thus the Summer Institute for CS Advanced Taulbee Surveys Were Due November 2. Placement Teachers (6APT) was Please make certain your survey has been submitted to: conceived. With a grant from the NSF, Fisher—together with Jane www.cra.org/Survey/FillOut Margolis, computer equity expert Jo Questions? Sanders, and Assistant Dean Mark Expanding Pipeline CACS/AIC Contact: [email protected] Continued on Page 6
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Survey Shows Significant Increases in CS Research Lab Salaries By David Waltz
In November 2000, CRA con- Fourteen organizations representing Observations This month CRA will again con- ducted its fourth Industrial Salary 1,189 researchers responded to the duct its survey of industry lab salaries Compensation was strikingly Survey of CS Research Laboratories. 2000 survey. (In 1999, twelve organ- for 2001. Companies that complete higher in 2000 than in 1999, espe- Organizations were asked to provide izations with 1,378 researchers par- the survey will receive the full set of cially for the most highly paid data about base salary (the annual ticipated.) Of these researchers, 72 results in December. researchers and for those with the salary independent of items such as percent held Ph.D.s, 21 percent M.S. This article, as well as those most experience. For those with six bonus and options) and total compen- degrees, and 6 percent B.S. degrees. regarding previous Industrial Salary or more years of experience, the sation, which includes variable cash A portion of the survey’s results are Surveys, is available online at average maximum total compensa- and variable non-cash compensation summarized in Figure 1, which http://www.cra.org/statistics/ tion more than doubled, with those (items such as bonuses and the value reports both the means and medians industrial/. having 16 or more years of experi- of stock options which respondents of base salaries and total compensa- I would especially like to thank ence averaging a maximum of were asked to estimate). The survey tion for researchers with doctorates. Jay Vegso of CRA for his excellent $405,000! For the same period, the collected minimum, average, and Although there are differences in efforts in collecting, analyzing, and average base salaries of those with maximum salaries for researchers in how salary data are tabulated and organizing this data; and CRA’s doctoral degrees increased between 5 their first year after receiving their reported between this survey and Patrick McMullen for generating percent and 29 percent, while aver- degrees and for four additional five- CRA’s Taulbee Survey of Ph.D.- Figure 1. age total compensation increased year periods. Companies that com- granting CS/CE departments, Table 1 between 17 percent and 39 percent. pleted the survey received the results provides nine-month faculty salary Dr. Waltz is President of the NEC In 2000, average variable compensa- in January 2001. data for the 2000/2001 academic year. Research Institute. He is a member of tion appears to have accounted for the CRA Board and chairs CRA’s between 14 percent and 30 percent Industry Committee. of total compensation.
Table 1. AY00/01 Nine-month Salaries among U.S. CS Departments Faculty Rank Average of all Salaries
Salaries Non-Tenure Teaching Faculty $51,909 Assistant Professor $68,628 Associate Professor $76,997 Full Professor $99,690
Source: CRA 1999-2000 Taulbee Survey
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Computer Engineering Freshmen Numbers Rise By Matt Doster More students are choosing to population is increasing in number, Computer Discipline Tops actually slightly less than the study engineering—many more! and the bureau is projecting substan- the List increase from 1994 to 1995, when Recently published data from tial increases through the year 2010. the total jumped from 5,939 to These recent increases are due, in Engineering and Technology (Specifically, the bureau projects this 7,922. The computer engineering large part, to the continued rise in Enrollments, Fall 2000 reveal that the population group to reach about 43 departments have been growing rap- students studying in departments of national total of engineering’s fresh- million people and to increase by idly since 1992, which followed a few computer engineering. In 1999, the men class increased by 8.3 percent two-thirds of a percent of the overall years of drop-off (see chart 1). number of freshmen in computer last fall, and has increased an average population by 2010.) Thus, the out- The Engineering Workforce engineering departments totaled of 4.8 percent per year over the past look is favorable for those who want Commission (EWC), which conducts 14,504; in 2000, the number had 4 years. The actual size of the fresh- to see engineering enrollments con- the surveys on which the Engineering grown by a third to 19,311. As a man class in 2000 was 101,773 full- tinue to increase. and Technology Enrollments series is percentage, this large increase is time students. Nevertheless, growth in the col- based, increasingly encounters a These overall increases in engi- lege-age population only provides neering freshmen over the past few information on the size of the pool of years come on the heels of some his- available students. It is difficult to toric lows in the numbers of engi- determine precisely why students neering students. Two years ago, the actually choose to study—or not to number of engineering bachelor’s study—engineering. During the late degrees awarded dropped to a 19-year 1980s and early 1990s, while the col- low, while in 1994 the freshmen lege-age population was decreasing or engineering class—at 85,047 stu- stable, the number of undergraduate dents—was the smallest since 1976. college degrees being awarded was A significant underlying factor in actually increasing. Simultaneously, the increase of engineering students the number of engineering degrees is the dynamics of the U.S. popula- was declining. Quite simply, a tion. The current increase parallels smaller proportion of college students an increase in the college-age popu- have been choosing engineering lation throughout the United States. during the late 1980s and 1990s. It The U.S. population for 15- to 24- will be interesting to see whether the year-olds declined in the 1980s and recent increase in number of fresh- reached a plateau in the early- to men engineering students will be mid-1990s of around 35 million peo- great enough to increase the percent- ple, according to the U.S. Census age of engineering students as well. Bureau. Now this portion of the Computer Engineering Continued on Page 8 Page 3 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Research Agenda for Networked, Embedded Computing Systems—New CSTB Report By Lynette I. Millett
Driven by decreasing costs and agenda aimed at achieving function- is large. From continued advances in interoperability. In contrast, adap- increasing capabilities, computing ally powerful, flexible, long-lived, component technologies, to the tive coordination addresses changes and communications technology is trustworthy EmNets. The report development of algorithms and in the behavior of a system as it being embedded into a growing range concludes that the new problems methodologies for large-scale self- responds to changes in the environ- of devices linked together through posed by these technologies mean configuration and adaptive coordina- ment or system resources (such as networks. Beyond desktops and lap- that incremental improvements to tion, to ensuring the trustworthiness energy). Together, these processes tops connected to the Internet, infor- today’s solutions will not suffice to real- of these systems, to the creation of are critical for creating robust and mation technology is connecting a ize the full power of EmNets. new abstractions and models of com- scalable unattended EmNets. variety of devices and sensors that The research challenges presented putation, work on these systems will Significant research progress is will allow information to be col- by these emerging systems stem in need to encompass virtually all needed to achieve automatic self- lected, shared, and processed in part from the unique set of con- aspects of computing research. configuration among large numbers unprecedented ways. Such net- straints under which they will be At the component level, silicon of distributed nodes, while the worked systems of embedded operating and in part from the scaling, advances in computing hard- encompassing system continues to computers are being deployed in diverse range of applications for ware, software, and wireless commu- conform to well-defined trust and applications from automotive tele- which they will be used. The sys- nications, and new connections to failure models. There is also much matics to precision agriculture to tems are likely to be large and the physical world such as geoloca- work to be done in the area of military defense systems; from smart heterogeneous, and many of their tion and microelectromechanical distributed adaptive coordination homes and buildings to in situ envi- components will be tightly coupled sensors (MEMS) will be the techno- to support EmNet applications. ronmental monitoring to biotechno- to the physical world. EmNets have logical building blocks. Networking Such techniques are particularly logical research. Their broad to cope with severe constraints on solutions that work well enough for critical for unattended, resource- applicability gives these systems the memory, bandwidth, and energy. today’s systems are based on many constrained systems. potential to transform the way Many EmNets, in whole or in part, assumptions that are inappropriate The global features that will be people interact with and manage will persist for long periods of time, for EmNets. For instance, the poten- required of these systems include reli- their environment. making upgrade and rebooting a tially huge number of nodes, the ad ability, safety, security, privacy, and A new report from the Computer challenge. In addition, they will hoc system extensions expected, the usability. Such features must be built Science and Telecommunications often require autonomous control extended longevity, and the heavy into a system from the start; it is dif- Board, Embedded, Everywhere: A systems, and the people who use or reliance on wireless communications ficult, if not impossible, to add them Research Agenda for Networked interact with them are unlikely to be between nodes will collectively in an adequate and cost-effective Systems of Embedded Computers, out- systems experts. All of these factors invalidate some basic assumptions manner later on. It is the combina- lines the broad systems-level combine to mean that more tradi- built into today’s network solutions. tion of an open system architecture approach that will be needed to solve tional approaches to distributing Work in all of these areas, as well as with distributed control that makes the problems presented by networked computing will not be adequate to in power management and energy adding these sorts of features to embedded computing systems meet the needs of EmNets. sources and in software development, EmNets such a challenge. Each of (referred to throughout the report as must therefore continue to advance. these features presents significant EmNets). It describes the enabling Scope and Challenges Self-configuration involves the challenges in more traditional distrib- technologies that have made such The scope of the problems that addition, removal, or modification of uted systems such as the Internet. systems possible and goes on to out- will need to be addressed to achieve elements in an EmNet and the Coping with the new constraints line a comprehensive research viable, robust, generalizable EmNets subsequent process of establishing CSTB Continued on Page 9 Graphical Models for Automatic Speech Recognition By Jeff A. Bilmes Jeff Bilmes is the third CRA Digital Fellowship lecture, will first briefly each stage, to the ultimate receiver. Government Fellow. The following survey the state of the art in the field With such an understanding, these article is a synopsis of his presentation to of automatic speech recognition. It relationships can be “inverted” to the Office of Engineering and Tech- will then make a case in favor of produce a probabilistic model that nology at the Federal Communications graphical models as one of the can yield the most likely source mes- Commission on June 11, 2001. methodologies holding promise sage for each given received message. In 1968 it was predicted that by to greatly improve speech Unfortunately, it is not known 2001 we would have a Hal 9000 recognition algorithms. what these statistical relationships computer with the ability to tran- The primary technology behind truly are, or even if such a sequential scribe, understand, and respond to automatic speech recognition is model is appropriate. For example, human speech. Here we are, nearing inspired by statistical communica- implicit in the above is a possible the end of 2001, and what do we tions theory, where a source message problem called the Markov assump- Jeff Bilmes have instead? We have desktop PCs is sent through a noisy communica- tion: given the message at a certain that can produce transcriptions tions channel to a receiver. It is the stage in the model, all earlier stages are (often errorful) of clearly articulated job of the receiver to infer the most irrelevant to determine the message at speech. We can use our voice to capabilities of today’s computers probable original message. In auto- later stages. Is it true that, given make airline reservations via some- would inspire wonder compared with matic speech recognition, however, a knowledge of the string of words, the what heavy-handed automated sys- those available in 1968. This is due message might undergo several noisy acoustic waveform is irrelevant to the tems. We can automatically not only to the incredible increases transmission stages before arriving at original idea? Probably not. intercept, transcribe, and data-mine in microprocessor performance, but its ultimate destination. The Markov assumption is applied telephone conversations (surveil- also, and just as impressively, to Consider, for example, the not only to the semantic hierarchy, lance technology crucial for national major conceptual and algorithmic following sequence between an but also to time. That is, the past is security), but even the best transcrip- advances. A 1968-era speech recog- original message (an idea) and irrelevant to the future given the tion performance has an error rate of nition algorithm running on a final destination (the ear): a con- present. Is this true in language, or no better than about twenty-five 2.2GHz Pentium 4 would pale in ceptual idea, a string of words, a might there be some lingering percent. As the conversations comparison to today’s techniques. string of phones, and an acoustic hidden effect of the past, not become more fluent, or when the But just as current capabilities waveform, first as emitted by the manifest in the present, that can accent or dialect changes or back- would have seemed incredible in human vocal apparatus and then as influence the future? While the ground noise increases, the number 1968, so the capabilities of 2034 presented to the auditory system. model will assume the former, this of errors skyrockets. would appear to us today. The tech- Communications theory requires an assumption nevertheless is the Despite this apparently bleak nology underlying automatic speech understanding of the statistical bedrock of all modern speech picture, automatic speech recogni- recognition is still in its infancy. This relationships between the message recognition systems. tion (ASR) has seen amazing article, a synopsis of the author’s as it undergoes the several transfor- Graphical Models progress over the past 30 years. The recent CRA Digital Government mations from the source, through Continued on Page 10 Page 4 November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
Historical Trends from Taulbee Surveys: Ph.D. Programs and Ethnicity By Jay Vegso
This is the third in a series of arti- background of CS/CE Ph.D. recipi- has even experienced a decline of 2, which tracks the percentage of cles on trends in data from the ents since the 1993-94 academic year, its own. enrolled Ph.D. students by ethnicity. Taulbee Survey and its antecedents, when the categories and data While the proportions in Table 1 As in Table 1, the two most notice- which stretch back to 1970. The first attained consistency. are useful for tracking trends, the able trends are the increase in the two articles dealt with faculty salaries As can be seen, the proportion of actual number of degrees granted to proportion of nonresident aliens and and the number of women who have Ph.D.s granted to non-Hispanic the different ethnic groups can pres- the decline of whites who are seeking received degrees or who are univer- Whites (“whites”) has generally ent a starker picture. Since 1970, their doctorates. Asian or Pacific sity faculty members. This article declined over the past three years, 8,605 CS/CE doctorates have been Islanders are also less well repre- reports on the ethnicity of computer while the proportion granted to non- granted to whites, while only 145 sented than they were in 1993-94. science and computer engineering resident aliens has increased steadily. have been granted to African- All of this would suggest that a (CS/CE) Ph.D. recipients and students Indeed, 1999-2000 was the first year Americans. Since 1984, when the greater proportion of Ph.D.s will be in the United States and Canada. in the history of the survey in which Taulbee Survey started to track granted to nonresident aliens in the All of these articles are available on a greater proportion of doctorates Hispanics as an ethnic group, 6,429 coming years, at the expense of the CRA website (www.cra.org). were granted to nonresident aliens doctorates have been granted to whites and Asians. At the same time, Due to changes in the Taulbee than to whites. The decline in the whites, while only 222 have been it seems likely that African- Survey, including the addition of proportion of degrees going to whites granted to Hispanics. Americans, Native Americans, and new ethnic categories, it is difficult has not translated into gains for Enrollment data can suggest possi- Hispanics will not see a significant to summarize long-term trends. As a other ethnic groups, however, and ble trends in future Ph.D. produc- improvement in their representation result, Table 1 reports the ethnic the Asian or Pacific Islanders group tion. These figures are given in Table among Ph.D. recipients.
Table 1. Ethnicity of U.S. and Canadian CS&CE Ph.D. Recipients Academic Nonresident African-American, Native American Asian or Pacific Hispanic White, Other Year Alien Non-Hispanic Islander Non-Hispanic 1993-94 35% 1% 0% 16% 1% 44% 3% 1994-95 33% 1% 0% 15% 3% 39% 9% 1995-96 36% 1% 1% 16% 3% 40% 3% 1996-97 38% 1% 0% 12% 1% 45% 4% 1997-98 42% 1% 1% 10% 1% 44% 2% 1998-99 42% 2% 0% 9% 2% 42% 2% 1999-2000 47% 2% 0% 10% 2% 39% 1%
Table 2. Ethnicity of U.S. and Canadian CS&CE Ph.D. Total Enrollment Academic Nonresident African-American, Native American Asian or Pacific Hispanic White, Other Year Alien Non-Hispanic Islander Non-Hispanic 1993-94 37% 2% 0% 13% 1% 45% 2% 1994-95 35% 2% 0% 14% 2% 46% 2% 1995-96 36% 1% 0% 14% 2% 44% 4% 1996-97 45% 2% 0% 8% 2% 39% 2% 1997-98 46% 2% 0% 10% 2% 38% 2% 1998-99 45% 2% 0% 10% 2% 39% 2% 1999-2000 50% 2% 0% 10% 1% 34% 3%
CRA Welcomes New Staff
CRA has recently hired two new Peter has a bachelor’s degree in issues on which he has worked use of social science methodologies, employees, filling the vacancies cre- English from Hillsdale College. He include information technology such as field work on our empirical ated by the departures of Lisa has spent six years working for policy and authorization, university- studies of recruitment and retention, Thompson (director of government formal evaluation of effectiveness of affairs) and Jennifer Rubinstein CRA programs, and Taulbee and (coordinator of women’s programs) industrial salary surveys. He will also during the summer. support a number of other program- Peter Harsha
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Expanding Pipeline trends at different stages in the student dinners, dessert socials during The Council has been, and con- from Page 2 admissions process: exam periods, and group outings tinues to be, a source of information • A steady rise in the numbers of (e.g., to the Carnegie International about women in computer science Stehlik—ran two weeklong sessions both male and female appli- Art Exhibit and the Pittsburgh for the campus community and the in the summers of 1996, 1997, and cants to the undergraduate pro- Symphony). The Council also spon- community-at-large. The 1998. The goal of the program was gram over the past five years, sors panels with visiting women com- Women@SCS web site two-fold: 1) to prepare high school somewhat steeper for women puter scientists on topics such as (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~women) is CS teachers to teach C++, a major than for men. “Women’s Career Choices: Costs and a “must see” to get a feel for the component of the revised AP CS • A significantly higher propor- Benefits Along the Way,” “Grad enormous scope of our activities. exam, and 2) to talk to teachers tion of women applicants being School or Industry—What Should I about the computing gender gap and accepted each year. Do?” and “The Joys of Under- Evaluation and Impact what they could do about it. • An increased yield among graduate Research.” A tradition We believe the following features During the course of the three female applicants (now begun at the end of the first year is have been crucial to the success of summers, 240 teachers (approxi- about 33%). the “Passing the Torch” dinner where our efforts so far: mately 16 percent of all AP CS high seniors share their pearls of wisdom. • A vision articulated by key fac- school teachers in the United States) According to the CMU Office of ulty and administrators stress- participated in the program at CMU. Admissions, standardized scores have Consulting and the ing that a more diverse student Thus, it is likely that, both directly remained high (e.g., in 2001, the Curriculum body is not only good for and indirectly, 6APT has played a average math SAT score for entering The Council also acts as a potential students, but is cru- significant role in the increased num- students was 760), while measures of resource and sounding board for the cial to the intellectual health bers of high school women consider- outside achievement and personal faculty and administration about and future of CMU’s computer ing majors in computer science at attributes are now at an all-time high. issues affecting undergraduates. science program as well as the Carnegie Mellon. Indeed, prelimi- Issues of retention must also be These issues can be quite specific. entire field. nary data support this claim. The addressed, and efforts have been For example, the Council has • A solid base of research from percentage of women from the 6APT made to ensure a positive learning reviewed TA training videos and which to make change and high schools entering our undergrad- environment for women in the provided feedback to Associate Dean educate faculty and students, uate program increased from 0 in School of Computer Science. Peter Lee about recruitment and a commitment to act. 1995 to 18 percent in 1999. presentations. • Respected and experienced A Supportive Community: Even more, insights provided by researchers, faculty, and admin- Admissions The Women@SCS Advisory the Council are likely to have a pro- istrators at the helm of the Around 1995, Raj Reddy, then Council found impact on the curriculum. In effort, working to bring others Dean of Computer Science, articu- her “green paper” circulated at a on board. The Women@SCS Advisory lated to the Director of Admissions meeting with faculty, senior Ting- • An articulate and committed Council was created in fall 1999, and his desire to attract students to Chih Shih clearly pointed out that group of women undergraduate has since met weekly during the aca- Carnegie Mellon who demonstrate the current CS undergraduate cur- and graduate students who demic year. Membership includes the potential to be world leaders and riculum serves male students far bet- have gained the recognition undergraduates representing all four visionaries in computer science. The ter than females. For one, the entry and respect of the faculty years and graduate students repre- CMU Admissions Office responded programming courses favor students and administration. senting the various departments to Reddy’s vision by expanding the with more experience (usually men) • The growing reputation of within SCS.7 Council meetings, and range of qualities they looked for in who seem to get better scores effort- CMU as a place that wants ensuing conversations, whether in CS applicants. In addition to demon- lessly. As a result, many women women and values their presence. person or virtual (the Council logs strated academic competence, the “begin thinking that learning com- • Support from the President voluminous email correspondence), Admissions Office began giving more puter science takes innate talent and of the university that has determine the Council’s priorities weight to non-academic factors, no amount of hard work will pay enabled us to bring speakers and evolving agenda for action. A looking for applicants with leader- off… They start to lose confidence to campus; organize events, top priority is community building. ship potential and a commitment to and forget their initial interest in workshops, and outreach “give back to the community.” These computer science…” Moreover, the activities; and send students broadened criteria also became Community Building and “way lectures are presented seems to to professional meetings.8 important in awarding financial aid. Networking appeal to men more. In general, About the same time, Allan The most extensive single activity females feel that the birds-eye view There is a growing perception Fisher also conveyed to the of the Women@SCS Advisory of a problem, and the end result, are among the faculty and administra- Admissions Office his goal of a gen- Council has been the Big more relevant than the coding tion that the student body is “more der-balanced program. He felt it was Sister/Little Sister program, which details in between…” interesting than ever before.” The important to get the message out pairs upper-class and graduate stu- awareness of pressing issues—such as that “no prior programming experi- dents with first-year and sophomore Outreach the curriculum, advising, and cli- ence is necessary” to enter the CMU CS majors. It was formed to mate—appears to be increasing, par- There is a large niche for educa- computer science program. The strengthen the bonds of women in ticularly among core faculty involved tional activities geared towards image of a CS student as someone SCS and encourage a forum for dis- in undergraduate teaching and key engaging girls in science and tech- (usually male) who has played with cussion, advice, and support. Thirty- administrators. We are witnessing a nology. Council members have computers since early childhood is four students participated in the Big major transformation in the culture designed a workshop for middle widespread. This often discourages Sister/Little Sister program during its of computing. school girls (“Is There a Robot in many otherwise talented students first year, 48 during the second year. Your Future?”) and have sponsored a from applying to a CS program. Other community-building activi- national forum on “Girls, Technology In Conclusion Admissions statistics (summarized ties have included: student-faculty and Education.” Increasing and maintaining the in Table 1) indicate several important dinners, undergraduate-graduate presence of women in computer sci- ence at levels equal to men necessi- Table 1. Computer Science Undergraduate Admissions tates taking a hard look at, and Carnegie Mellon University 1995-2001 changing, business as usual. In the past, the culture, environment, and Year Applied Admitted Enrolled expectations of the undergraduate CS program have served male stu- Total Women Total Women Total Women dents better than female students, (% of all applicatants) (% of applied) (% of female applicants) (% of total enrolled) although it has not been optimal for many male students either. Many of 1995 1484 160 (11%) 382 (26%) 54 (34%) 96 7 (7%) the changes we have been advocat- 1996 2182 231 (11%) 479 (22%) 87 (37%) 142 23 (16%) ing—particularly regarding curricu- 1997 2222 248 (11%) 481 (21%) 87 (35%) 136 18 (13%) lum, advising, pedagogy, and 1998 2364 274 (12%) 462 (19%) 96 (35%) 140 27 (19%) community—are not gender-specific. Many are applicable in other educa- 1999 2680 342 (13%) 454 (17%) 122 (36%) 130 50 (38%) tional settings, for example in high 2000 2876 404 (14%) 386 (13%) 158 (39%) 132 51 (39%) Expanding Pipeline 2001 3237 435 (15%) 402 (12%) 157 (36%) 132 49 (37%) Continued on Page 9
Source: CMU Office of Admissions (May 18, 2000); updated (September 10, 2001). Page 6 November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
CRA Honors Ruzena Bajcsy PITAC and the Large-Scale Networking from Page 1 New Visions workshops continue to advance the research agenda. researchers in this field are scattered Funding mechanisms have been across many disciplines with few broadened from small, single PI opportunities to interact. Goals projects to medium and large multi- include finding ways to foster this PI projects funded for multiple years. interdisciplinary research field and The High-End Computing increase its visibility, perhaps by Subcommittee indicated satisfaction providing opportunities such as that progress has been made in workshops and an annual con- achieving its recommendations. ference to bring the diverse Examples include funding to build researchers together. the Distributed Terascale Facility The Software Subcommittee and a movement to RISC-based mas- expressed satisfaction with the sively parallel processors (MPPs). response to the 1999 report funding Future considerations include the At a CRA reception on August 28, friends and colleagues honored Ruzena recommendations, with increases to convergence of computing and com- Bajcsy at the end of her term as Assistant Director of NSF’s CISE directorate. NSF and to some mission agencies. munications, the continuation of Pictured above are (l to r): CRA executive director, Bill Aspray; Dr. Bajcsy; and Interagency collaboration and plan- Moore’s Law with 10 GHz processors CRA board chair, Jim Foley. ning has been excellent, and ITR is by the end of the decade, and making a big difference resulting in sustained petaflop computing. Transitions and Announcements new kinds of projects, new collabora- Paul Domich, representing the tions (e.g., between biology and IT), White House, reported that the con- Ruzena Bajcsy has been appointed the new director of the Center for and grants of various sizes and dura- firmation hearing for John H. Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at the tions. However, there is a lack of Marburger, III, nominated by the University of California, Berkeley. CITRIS is one of four California Institutes risk-taking in proposals and many President to be Director of the Office for Science and Innovation. It brings together the UC campuses at Berkeley, excellent proposals could not be sup- of Science and Technology, was Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz with private industry to develop innovative ported for lack of funding. Progress expected to take place in mid- technology that tackles some of society's most pressing problems. Dr. Bajcsy, has been made in sponsoring and October. Once the director and asso- previously Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of encouraging multidisciplinary ciate directors are in place, it is likely Pennsylvania, recently completed her term as Assistant Director of CISE at the research, but it needs to be that the current vacancies on National Science Foundation. strengthened within IT. PITAC will be filled. Domich Stephen B. Seidman has been named Dean of the new College of The Scalable Information reported that most agency budgets (with the exception of DOD and Computing Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he is Infrastructure Subcommittee reported the agencies’ responses to HHS) are moving and have passed Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Information Systems. He the PITAC recommendations. both House and Senate, but have not previously chaired the Department of Computer Science at Colorado Agencies involved—NSF, DARPA, gone through conference. State University. DOE, NASA, NIST, NOAA, and Additional information about George O. Strawn has been named Acting Assistant Director of the NSA—have implemented a large PITAC and its activities is available Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at number of projects recommended by on its website at: the National Science Foundation, effective September 2001. From January the 1999 report. There is evidence of http://www.itrd.gov/ac. 1999 through August 2001 he was the Executive Officer of CISE. increased interagency coordination,
Rotators sharing with your university. You it was “the harder way,” my family from Page 1 remain on your university payroll had a good enough experience living Tapia and maintain the continuity of your in the DC area during my first tour one of the many interdisciplinary benefits programs. of duty that they elected to come Symposium and interagency priority areas that Second, NSF provides a per diem back with me a second time. NSF is prompting (e.g., nanotechnol- allowance to help defray expenses. In summary, there are plenty of ogy, biocomplexity, and interdiscipli- This allowance is currently about personal and research community a Success nary mathematics). It is important $1,000 per month and is available for benefits when a person rises to the More than 170 people attended that CISE researchers are energized the two years of the typical tour of opportunity of serving as a rotator the Richard Tapia Celebration to participate in these opportunities, duty. NSF will also coordinate with with the Foundation. And the NSF of Diversity in Computing October since they not only provide addi- you concerning arrangements should procedures make the transition about 18-20 in Houston, Texas. The tional sources of support but also you need to continue your research as painless as possible. So I would Coalition to Diversify Computing, a may lead to whole new areas of commitments at the university while encourage you to lend your support committee sponsored by CRA, CISE research. on assignment. to the federal effort to support ACM, and IEEE-CS, organized the Third, you gain a useful overview The actual move to the DC area CISE research. inaugural event, which is designed to of the federal research support involves a personal decision. There is For more information check out celebrate the technical contributions and career interests of diverse people process that can be useful for your an easier way and a harder way to do http://www.nsf.gov/home/chart/inter- in computing fields. own grantsmanship once you are it, depending on personal circum- gov.htm regarding IPA assignments The symposium offered a mix of back at the university. Moreover, for stances (I did it the harder way both and http://www.cise.nsf.gov regarding technical and non-technical talks, those interested in considering lead- times). The easier way to move is to CISE programs and PD openings. panels, and a poster session. ership roles at universities, this expe- leave spouse and children guarding Also contact us personally: program An awards banquet honored rience can be especially valuable. the home front and to lease an apart- directors, division directors, and the Dr. Richard A. Tapia, a mathemati- Finally, Washington, DC is an ment in one of the many apartment assistant director would all be happy cian and professor in computational enjoyable and stimulating place to buildings within walking distance of to talk with you. and applied mathematics at Rice live. The Smithsonian Resident NSF. This way may be preferred by University in Houston, who is well Associates Program, just to name one persons whose spouse is employed Dr. Strawn is the Acting Assistant known for his commitment to thing, provides a great series of pro- back home and/or whose children are Director of CISE at NSF. Previously he educational equity, mentoring, and grams and lectures that can enrich at an “unmovable” age. served as the Executive Officer of CISE, student success. your experience. The harder way to move is to rent which manages NSF’s programs for Speakers at the banquet included, Once you are convinced that you out your home and move your family computer science research and for the Malcom Gillis, President of Rice should look into an IPA assignment to an appropriate rental house in the creation and use of advanced supercom- University; Neal Lane, former at NSF, the next question is: How DC area. Finding a rental house can puting and networking. From 1995 Director of the White House Office easy is it to do? Answer: NSF has be done by getting the name of one through 1998 he was Division Director of Science and Technology Policy; procedures in place that make the or more real estate salespersons from of the CISE Division of Advanced current and former students; car club whole process pretty easy. An IPA fellow NSFers and scheduling a trip Networking Infrastructure and friends; and Jean Tapia, who pro- assignee who comes to work tem- to scout the area to see what you Research. He currently serves as vided a moving tribute to her porarily at NSF retains his or her like. Rental houses cannot be rented co-chair of both the interagency Large husband. Bryant York, Portland status at the home institution. After in advance, however. Look around a Scale Networking Working Group and State University, was presented the you have been selected and have few months early if you like, but the international Coordinating inaugural “Richard A. Tapia agreed to come, NSF makes a grant expect to rent the house you want as Committee for Intercontinental Achievement Award for Scientific to your university toward your salary soon as you find it (or somebody else Research Networks. Scholarship, Civic Science, and and benefits costs, negotiating cost will grab it). In my case, even though Diversifying Computing.”
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Computer Engineering from Page 3 muddling of the data between com- large numbers of computer science • Aerospace in 2000. Except for Native puter engineering and computer sci- students who study outside of • Industrial Americans, all the minority groups ence. To date, the EWC’s standard engineering departments and will • Bioengineering tracked by the EWC grew in number, approach has been to collect data on not be included in EWC surveys. • Engineering science yet the large overall growth simply the number of students within each outpaced the growth of African Americans and Hispanic Americans. engineering college, regardless of pro- Other Engineering A very high number of freshmen Asian Americans and Foreign gram title, and then publish the data Disciplines of Choice engineering students—for example, Nationals are continuing to grow with program title details so that Of 22 disciplines tracked by the 27,078 in 2000—are classified as pre- both in number and percentage. The careful users can parse the informa- EWC, 10 engineering disciplines or other-engineering each year. numbers of women grew significantly tion at the level of their choosing. accounted for at least 1,000 freshmen Many engineering colleges require from 1999 to 2000 (by 1,225), but However, the EWC’s “computer” dis- each (see table 2). Three disciplines their freshmen to wait a year or two also decreased as a percentage of the cipline has increasingly become con- are dominant in size, with more than before declaring a major field of total (see table 3). fusing, since it includes nearly as 12,000 freshmen each: study; many students simply prefer to many computer science students as • Computer wait. Matt Doster ([email protected]) is the computer engineering students. In • Electrical and electronics In 2000, an additional 4,183 Director of the Engineering Workforce fact, on close inspection, it is found • Mechanical engineering freshmen were spread Commission, American Association of that the computer discipline for the An intermediate group accounted throughout 12 other disciplines. Engineering Societies, Washington, DC. class of 2000 can be broken into for about 5,000 to 7,000 freshmen each: The complete report, Engineering and these five subgroups (see table 1). • Civil Underrepresented Minority Technology Enrollments, Fall 2000, This is an issue the EWC will • Chemical Numbers Worsen may be purchased from the Engineering most likely address by splitting its • General For the freshmen class in 2000, Workforce Commission by calling 888- broader computer discipline into, underrepresented minorities 400-2237 or visiting specifically, computer engineering And four other disciplines (African, Hispanic, and Native www.aaes.org/ewc. and computer science. This may accounted for more than 1,000 fresh- Americans) within the engineering freshmen class decreased as a propor- seem an obvious solution, but the men each: tion of the total class, dropping from issue is further muddled by the 16.7 percent in 1999 to 16.1 percent
Table 1 Number of Students SubGroups within Computer Discipline Note to Department Chairs re 9,247 Computer Engineering CRA Distributed Mentor Project 128 Blend of Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering Pending approval of NSF funding, 1,241 Blend of Computer Engineering and the deadline for applications for the Computer Science 2002 DMP program is expected to be 8,623 Computer Science, Software Engineering, February 1, 2002. Information Systems Check the CRA website (www.cra.org) 72 Blend of Computer Science and Electrical for an announcement. Engineering
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Computing Research Association Staff Table 3. Population Groups as Percentage of Total William Aspray, Executive Director and CRN Editorial Director 1999 2000 Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs Diane Long, Administrator and CRN Ad Coordinator Women 19.2% 18.9% Patrick McMullen, Program Associate African American 8.5% 8.0% Dana Neill, Business Manager Hispanic American 7.5% 7.4% Jean Smith, Sr. Communications Associate and CRN Editor Native American 0.7% 0.6% Jay Vegso, Manager of Membership and Information Services Asian American 10.2% 10.9% Donnajean Ward, Director of Programs Foreign Nationals 4.4% 4.6%
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Expanding Pipeline Research, International; Language CSTB • Enabling technologies. Ongoing from Page 6 Technologies Institute; and the from Page 4 research into the various com- Robotics Institute. ponent and enabling technolo- schools and in graduate programs. 4. http://cra.org/statistics under which EmNets operate exacer- gies of EmNets. We believe they can benefit all The Computing Research Association bates the difficulties and poses hard “Taulbee Survey.” students and the field as well. problems for the research community. Along with significant work in 5. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gendergap/ If EmNets are to be designed in a Women in Computer Sciences: Closing the specific areas outlined above, Lenore Blum is Distinguished Career the Gender Gap in Higher Education, principled way, rather than being progress in this area will require an Professor of Computer Science at Allan Fisher and Jane Margolis, assembled using techniques selected inter- and multi-disciplinary Carnegie Mellon where she is faculty School of Computer Science, on a case-by-case basis and special- approach on the part of broad com- advisor to Women@SCS Carnegie Mellon University. ized to the system being built, com- munities of researchers. Keeping sys- ([email protected]). 6. http://www.collegeboard.org/press/ putational models are needed that tems-level issues in mind, even when senior97/table14.html provide a conceptual framework in working on a specific aspect of the Notes 7. During its first year, eight undergradu- which the designs can be created, problem, will be essential. EmNets 1. http://www.mines.edu/ ate women, four graduate women, one thought about, and tested. What present exciting new challenges in fs_home/tcamp/cacm/paper.html faculty advisor, and one staff member makes developing the computational information technology, posing fun- served on the Advisory Council. Four “The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline,” model for EmNets so challenging is, damental research questions while additional students comprised the Tracy Camp, Colorado School of again, the combination of constraints being applicable to a broad range of Mines. An edited version of this Women@SCS web team. Starting under which they will be operating. problem domains and research disci- paper appears in Communications of its third year, the Council had 14 Combining this with the mission- the ACM, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 103- undergraduate and 22 graduate plines. Without a concerted, com- 110, Oct. 1997. student representatives. and, sometimes, life-critical nature of prehensive effort among and within 2. http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/ 8. In her article, “Toward Improving these systems makes the develop- relevant research communities, it is tcamp/new-study/new-study.html Female Retention in the Computer ment of coherent computational unlikely that the potential inherent “The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline Science Major,” Communications of the models for these systems a high prior- in EmNets will be realized. Long- Unlikely to Reverse,” Tracy Camp, ACM, May 2001, J. McGrath ity for the academic and industrial term, forward-thinking, and broad- Colorado School of Mines; Keith Cohoon argues that, based on her research communities. ranging research programs are crucial Miller, University of Illinois at investigation of Virginia’s CS depart- to achieving a deep understanding of ments, “the characteristics and prac- Springfield; and Vanessa Davies, A Broad Research Agenda how to design and develop these sys- tices of computer science departments Colorado School of Mines. The report outlines a broad- tems. In addition to outlining a 3. These are: the Center for Automated affect female retention at the under- ranging research agenda that will technical research agenda, the report Learning and Discovery; Computer graduate level” and that “inherent begin to address the problems Science Department, which houses female characteristics are an also makes several recommendations the undergraduate program; insufficient explanation of women’s described above. Specifically, it out- to federal agencies, including the Entertainment Technology Center; underrepresentation in computer lines eight areas in which significant Defense Advanced Research Projects Human-Computer Interaction science.” research is required before EmNets Agency (DARPA), the National Institute; Institute for Software can fulfill their potential. Research Science Foundation (NSF), and the in broadly relevant areas such as net- National Institute for Standards and working and usability that pervade Technology (NIST). many of the themes described below FEBRUARY 12 DEADLINE FOR is also essential: Looking Forward • Predictability and manageability. Future reports from CSTB will CRA SERVICE AWARD Methodologies and mecha- build on the issues raised in nisms for designing predictable, Embedded, Everywhere. An ongoing NOMINATIONS safe, reliable, manageable project on authentication technolo- EmNets; gies and their implications for pri- The Computing Research Association invites nominations for the CRA • Adaptive self-configuration. vacy is studying issues of security and Distinguished Service Award and the A. Nico Habermann Award for the Techniques to allow adaptive privacy in the context of authentica- year 2002. The awards will be presented at CRA’s Conference at Snowbird self-configuration of EmNets to tion technologies. A large examina- July 14-16, 2002. match volatile environmental tion of privacy in the context of conditions and system resources pervasive information technology is Distinguished Service Award in an ongoing dynamic balance; beginning. In addition, an explo- CRA makes an award, usually annually, to a person who has made an • Monitoring and system health. A ration of the possibilities for interdis- outstanding service contribution to the computing research community. complete conceptual frame- ciplinary research between the This award recognizes service in the areas of government affairs, profes- work to help achieve robust geospatial information and computer sional societies, publications or conferences, and leadership that has a major operation through self-monitor- science communities is under way. impact on computing research. ing, continuous self-testing, The issues and research challenges and reporting of system health articulated in Embedded, Everywhere A. Nico Habermann Award in the face of extreme con- aim to be broad and comprehensive CRA makes an award, usually annually, to a person who has made an straints on nodes and elements and will undoubtedly arise in a vari- outstanding contribution to aiding members of underrepresented groups of the system; ety of ways in a myriad of areas. The within the computing research community. This award recognizes work in • Computational models. New scope and breadth of the research areas of government affairs, educational programs, professional societies, abstractions and computational problems that need to be solved public awareness, and leadership that has a major impact on advancing models for designing, analyzing, make it clear that significant inter- these groups in the computing research community. and describing the collective disciplinary research will be neces- For a list of previous winners of these awards, see: behavior and information sary, as approaches and models from http://www.cra.org/main/cra.awards.html organization of massive EmNets; a wide variety of disciplines can be • Network geometry. Ways to brought to bear on the challenges of Nomination Procedure: support and incorporate net- EmNets. Computer science The deadline for receipt of nominations is February 12, 2002. work geometry (as opposed researchers can take the opportunity Nominations should not exceed two pages in length and should describe to just network topology) presented by networked systems of the contributions on which the nomination is based. Letters in support of into EmNets; embedded computers to both the nomination are welcome but not required. Questions or comments may • Interoperability. Techniques and broaden and deepen their research be addressed to [email protected]. design methods for construct- programs to address the challenges Send nominations electronically to: [email protected] (in plain ASCII ing long-lived, heterogeneous of EmNets. text or as a Word attachment). Alternatively, mail or fax to: systems that evolve over time and space while remaining Lynette I. Millett, a Program Officer at CRA Service Awards interoperable; CSTB, was the study director of Computing Research Association • Integration of technical, social, Embedded, Everywhere starting in 1100 17th Street, NW, Suite 507 ethical, and public policy issues. September 2000. Copies of the final Washington, DC 20036-4632 Fundamental research into the report may be purchased from National Tel. 202-234-2111 nontechnical issues of EmNets, Academy Press at www.nap.edu. Fax: 202-667-1066 especially those having to do Additional project information is avail- E-mail: [email protected] with the ethical and public pol- able at www.cstb.org. http://www.cra.org/main/cra.awards.html icy issues surrounding privacy, security, reliability, usability, and safety; Page 9 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Graphical Models systematic study of GM-based ASR that will help the recognition task, imagined, but a long road lies from Page 4 algorithms could lead to new, more which means that the structure ahead before such an ability will successful approaches. should reflect only those properties exist. Perhaps graphical models In the loosest of terms, a speech While space limitations for this that help to distinguish one spoken will play an important role in this recognition system [1] can be decon- article allow only the most superficial utterance from potentially confusable important endeavor. structed into four stages: signal pro- coverage of what graphical models utterances, a concept entitled struc- cessing, acoustic, pronunciation, and can offer, the following will touch on tural discriminability [4]. Such GM- Jeff A. Bilmes is an Assistant Professor language modeling. In the first stage, some of the critical advantages they based systems can have smaller in the Department of Electrical the acoustic speech waveform is provide for ASR. One of the most memory and computational demands Engineering at the University of (deterministically) transformed and important properties of a collection than more naively designed systems. Washington. Email: [email protected] compressed into a series of feature of random variables is the notion of A GM-based system can therefore ton.edu. URL: http://www.ee.washing- vectors. In the second stage, proba- conditional independence. In partic- satisfy the principle of parsimony by ton.edu/faculty/bilmes bility distributions are created, ular, suppose that A, B, and C are being accurate and finely tuned to within the event space of feature random variables. If knowledge of A the task at hand. The CRA Digital Government vectors, for each component of a cannot influence B in any way, it is To deploy a GM as a speech Fellowship is supported by the National word (such as a phone). The third said that A and B are independent. recognition system requires a great Science Foundation’s Digital stage consists of using a statistical Now, given knowledge of C, if A still deal of programming effort. In order Government Program, and is intended model of likely pronunciations of cannot influence B in any way, it is to ameliorate this problem, the to build ties between academic and each word. And lastly, the fourth said that A and B are conditionally author and a colleague at IBM industrial computing research communi- stage utilizes a statistical model of independent given C. Conditional research have been developing a new ties and information technology workers likely strings of words. The latter independence is different from inde- software toolkit for graphical models in federal, state, and local governments. three of the stages together can be pendence—that is, if A is independ- [5] specifically optimized for speech described by a hidden Markov model ent of B, then A might or might not recognition and time series modeling Notes: (HMM). First proposed for speech be conditionally independent of B tasks. The toolkit, aptly entitled the 1. Steve Young, “A Review of Large- recognition in the 1970s by given C, and vice versa. Conditional graphical models toolkit (or GMTK), vocabulary Continuous-speech researchers at IBM and AT&T independence is an extremely power- provides a simple graphical program- Recognition,” IEEE Signal Processing research, HMMs are still the predom- Magazine, 1996. ful concept. When conditional inde- ming language, and combines many inant statistical methodology used for 2. Steffan Lauritzen, “Graphical pendence changes, a statistical model features found both in existing speech recognition. Models,” Oxford Science Publications, can undergo enormous simplifica- speech recognition and graphical While much research in the past 1996. tions. Formal properties of models software packages. With 3. Judea Pearl, Probabilistic Reasoning in 20 years has attempted to move conditional independence are GMTK, it is possible to quickly spec- Intelligent Systems: Networks of beyond the HMM, none of the tech- described in [2,3]. ify a model structure and test it on Plausible Inference, Morgan Kaufmann, niques proposed so far is as powerful A graphical model is a graph very large speech data sets. The first 1988. as graphical models. Graphical mod- 4. Jeff A. Bilmes, “Dynamic Bayesian where nodes correspond to random version of the toolkit will be els (GMs) [2,3] are a flexible statisti- Multinets,” Proceedings of the 16th variables, and edges encode the set of released, in open source form, early cal abstraction that have been conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial conditional independence properties next year, and will be available from successfully used to describe problems Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. existing amongst those variables. the author’s WWW home page. 5. Jeff A. Bilmes and Geoff Zweig, in many domains, ranging from med- Why is this useful? First, it provides a Indeed, automatic speech recogni- “The Graphical Models Toolkit,” ical diagnosis and decision theory to method with which one may visually tion has come a long way since the forthcoming. time-series prediction and signal cod- explore the statistical structure of era when the Hal 9000 was first ing. Intuitively, they generalize many natural signals and scenes (such as techniques used in statistical analysis speech) when represented as a graph. and signal processing such as Kalman For example, graphs could show any- filters, auto-regressive models, and thing from causal relations between many information-theoretic coding high-level concepts down to the algorithms. They provide a formal, fine-grained dependencies existing DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND visual, and graphical language with within the neural code. Second, which one may observe and reason GMs provide a formal mechanism to LABS/CENTERS MANAGERS: about important properties of ran- evaluate the implications of statisti- dom processes (and the underlying cal assumptions made about a physi- SNOWBIRD ALERT physical phenomena these processes cal process. These implications are represent). They also provide a Mark your calendars now for CRA’s Conference at Snowbird 2002! often not immediately obvious. set of computationally efficient This biennial event is a “must” for department chairs and managers of labs Third, GMs provide a set of efficient decision-making algorithms. Overall, and centers. The planning committee is putting together a stimulating algorithms for statistical decision- GMs encompass a vast family of program of speakers and workshops, which will also include a workshop for making. The algorithms, which cor- statistical techniques. new chairs. respond to valid manipulation of GMs provide an excellent formal- The dates are July 14, 15, and 16, 2002 in Snowbird, Utah. Refer to probabilistic equations, involve ism within which to study, under- future issues of CRN and, beginning in January, to the CRA website manipulations of the graphs them- stand, and advance speech (http://www.cra.org) for program details and instructions for registration selves, and are therefore easy to apply recognition. Many existing ASR and accommodations. irrespective of the particular graph techniques appear to be repre- If you would like to suggest a topic for the program, please contact either being used. Finally, GMs provide a sentable using GMs; apparently no of the co-chairs. Members of the program committee include: way to explore the implications of other known abstraction possesses approximation, regarding both the this property. With GMs, one may Academic Sessions: process of decision-making (inferen- quickly evaluate and understand Leah Jamieson, Co-Chair Purdue University tial approximation) and approximat- algorithms that otherwise might
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Drexel Student Receives Undergraduate Award NSF Honors Computer Scientists for Distinguished Teaching
The National Science Foundation completed a two-year term as secre- recently announced the recipients of tary, co-founded a center for the first “Director’s Awards for Engineering Projects in Community Distinguished Teaching.” Among Service at Purdue. Her project will those honored were Leah H. create an interdisciplinary faculty Jamieson, Professor of Electrical and team to engage teams of students in Computer Engineering at Purdue long-term, multidisciplinary endeav- University, and Joseph O’Rourke, ors that solve technology-based Olin Professor of Computer Science problems faced by not-for-profit at Smith College. community agencies. On August 9, CRA board member, David Waltz, President NEC Research Institute, presented Lisa Anthony, Drexel University, with the female 2001 CRA The awards represent NSF’s Professor O’Rourke is a leader in Outstanding Undergraduate Award at the International Joint Conference on “highest honor for excellence in both supporting women to pursue careers Artificial Intelligence in Seattle. teaching and research.” The five men in computer science. He made a and two women selected each will major contribution to CRA in Credit: Andrew Buchanan, Subtle Light Photography receive $300,000 over four years to preparing the proposal submitted to continue and expand their work NSF to fund CRA-W’s successful beyond their institutions. The Distributed Mentor Project, which UBIQUITY recipients will be honored at a began in 1994 and continues today. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ceremony on November 8 at the O’Rourke will take his recent National Academy of Sciences in research in computational geometry 2002 Conference Washington, DC. into classrooms from 6th grade Hyatt Regency Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Professor Jamieson, a current upward, connecting the physical October 9-12, 2002 CRA board member who recently models to real-world problems. Details: http://gracehopper.org CRA Plans Three Workshops CRN year terms as CRA Chair, and of CRA will hold another of its workshop entitled “Managing the from Page 1 three board members whose terms highly successful academic careers Academic Career for Faculty Women ended: Sandra Baylor (IBM Santa workshops for new faculty and at Undergraduate Computer Science productive research projects and Teresa Laboratory), Barbara Ryder advanced graduate students in com- and Engineering Institutions.” It will imposes family hardships. On the (Rutgers University), and Sid Karen puter science, computer engineering, take place at SIGCSE 2002 on other hand, however, it creates (UC San Diego). Without their computational science, and other Wednesday, February 27, from 8:30 opportunities to have an impact on a help, and that of many other volun- computing-related disciplines on am to 5 pm. SIGCSE is the Special broader level, allows one to develop teers and staff, CRA would not be in February 10-12, 2002. Interest Group in Computer Science new sets of skills, and can expose a the enviably strong position we enjoy The workshop, chaired by CRA Education, one of many Special family to unparalleled cultural oppor- today. Thank you Ed, Sandra, board member, Lori Clarke Interest Groups sponsored by ACM. tunities and historical venues. Barbara, and Sid! (UMass—Amherst), focuses on The workshop will provide faculty Ruzena Bajcsy has challenged Another opportunity for commu- practical methods for having a suc- members at all levels of undergradu- CRA to help educate the computing nity service will be coming soon. In cessful and fulfilling academic career. ate education with critical informa- research community about the many January, CRA will be inviting the Topics include selecting and manag- tion and tools to build successful reasons to “go to Washington.” We heads of our member academic ing a research project, preparing a academic careers. In addition, the have, in turn, invited several of our departments and research labs to tenure dossier, mentoring and man- workshop will afford mentoring colleagues to pen CRN articles about submit nominations for positions on aging students, time management activities targeting women in under- their own experiences in Washington, the CRA board. Please tell your and family issues, and writing a suc- graduate teaching and research who which will appear in future issues department or lab head of your inter- cessful research-funding proposal. face particular challenges in pursuing of CRN. est in serving. Volunteers are also The workshop will include talks by and maintaining academic careers at In this issue you will see an article actively serving on CRA committees. senior members of NSF, DARPA, primarily undergraduate academic by George Strawn, Acting Assistant We currently have 16 board commit- and the Office of Naval Research, as institutions. Director of CISE, who describes his tees, of which approximately 50 addi- well as a session by NSF staff on how This day-long workshop is struc- own experiences and discusses the tional volunteers are members to write a good funding proposal. tured as a set of whole-group panel administrative mechanisms and (committee memberships are listed at For graduate students who wish to sessions, parallel panel sessions, and processes involved in undertaking a http://www.cra.org/main/cra.people. attend and whose departments are formal and informal group activities. stint in Washington. Please read the comm.html). This is yet another way unable to provide support, CRA can Workshop sessions will concentrate articles as they appear, and thought- to serve the research community. offer approximately 20 scholarships. on providing mentoring advice by fully consider spending two years The computing research commu- Preference will be given to students experienced women professors. In in Washington! nity is effective for two reasons: great who have passed their qualifying addition, sufficient time will be In the September issue of CRN I researchers, and great researchers exams. Since these are limited in allowed for audience participation recounted the accomplishments of who are willing to give some of their number, please check with your and dialogue focusing on issues from CRA since it was founded in 1972. I time to serve the research commu- department before you apply for one a woman’s perspective, making con- would like to acknowledge the com- nity. Think about it. Then do it. of CRA’s scholarships. nections with colleagues, and manag- munity service of Ed Lazowska Stepping up to the challenge will be This popular workshop will be held ing workloads by using available (University of Washington), who in one of the most rewarding phases of at the Key Bridge Marriott Hotel in resources that may be as yet June completed two successive two- your professional career. Arlington, Virginia (Washington, unknown to everyone. DC area). Those wishing to attend The workshop is co-chaired by should register without delay. Sheila Castaneda (Clarke College) Registration is already brisk, and it and Joan Francioni (Winona State Sponsors—CRA Snowbird Conference 2002 will be limited. College). Details will be available on Workshop details are available at: the CRA-W website at: Our thanks to Microsoft Research and Telcordia http://www.cra.org http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/ Technologies for signing sign up early as Snowbird ***** ***** The Computing Research With support from the National sponsors. If your organization would like to become a Association Committee on the Science Foundation, the Computing sponsor, we encourage you to contact Jay Status of Women in Computer Research Association will sponsor its Vegso at CRA ([email protected]) for details. Science and Engineering (CRA-W) Workshops will sponsor a career/mentoring Continued on Page 24
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Professional Opportunities
Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Search Committee or Computer Science required. Demonstrated Department of Computer Science ability in written and oral use of the English Clemson University CRN Advertising Policy language required. For information and Clemson, SC 29634-0974 application, please contact: Applications will be accepted and screened See http://www.cra.org/main/cra.jobshow.html Art MacCarley, Director periodically beginning September 1, 2001. Computer Engineering Program The search will continue until the positions Cal Poly are filled. Clemson University is an Affir- Ben-Gurion University effective presentations of scientific material is San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 mative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Department of Computer Science required. Appointment at the level of Tel. (805) 756-1229 The Computer Science Department at the Associate Professor or Professor would require e-mail: [email protected] Refer to College of Charleston Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel a record of achievement in research that is Recruitment Code 3797. Assistant or Associate Professor of invites applications for tenure track positions commensurate with holding such rank at Resumes can be submitted via email as Computer Science at all levels. major research universities. Award of tenure text documents, or as PDF or MS-Word The College of Charleston Department of Candidates must have a Ph.D. in computer requires demonstration of excellence in attachments. Review of applications will begin Computer Science invites applicants for a science or a related field and demonstrate teaching as well as research. December 1, 2001; applications received after tenure-track position at the assistant professor excellence in research and teaching. Applicants should send a resume in hard that date may be considered. Cal Poly is level. The department is especially interested Candidates in all areas of computer science copy form and have at least three (five for a strongly committed to achieving excellence in adding in the areas of networks and soft- will be considered. senior level appointment) referees send letters through cultural diversity. The university ware architecture. A Ph.D. in computer sci- The Department offers B.Sc., M.Sc., and of recommendation to: actively encourages applications and nomina- ence, computer engineering or software Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science. It has 20 Professor Harvey F. Silverman tions of women, persons of color, applicants engineering is required. The successful candi- full-time faculty members, and is currently Search Committee Chair with disabilities, and members of other under- date should demonstrate a commitment to undergoing a significant expansion with a Division of Engineering represented groups. AA/EEO. quality undergraduate teaching, and show large increase in the number of faculty mem- Box D, BROWN UNIVERSITY potential for sustained scholarly activity bers and resources. Faculty members enjoy a Providence, RI 02912 Clemson University that complements teaching. The starting research oriented atmosphere with moderate Inquiries may be addressed to: Computer Science nine-month salary range is highly teaching loads and are encouraged to interact [email protected]. This is an open Faculty Positions competitive. Startup funds and space are with the burgeoning high technology industry search with no deadline; however, the search The Department of Computer Science at also provided. in Israel. may close without notice, at any time. Brown Clemson University has multiple openings for Review of applications will continue until Applications, including resume and the name University is an equal opportunity/affirmative tenure-track faculty positions at all levels as position is filled. Please send your curriculum and address of at least three references (please action employer and strongly encourages well as lecturers. Outstanding candidates in all vitae, statement of teaching philosophy or indicate E-mail addresses) should be sent to: applications from women, minorities, and areas of Computer Science are encouraged to teaching portfolio, and the names and e-mail Prof. Klara Kedem, Chair protected persons. apply. Current faculty interests include algo- addresses of three professional references to Dept. of Computer Science rithms and theory, graphics & visualization, [email protected] via attachment or URL. If Ben-Gurion University Brown University networking and systems, programming lan- you prefer not to apply electronically, please P.O.Box 653 Division of Applied Mathematics guages, and software engineering. Applicants mail your application to: Beer-Sheva, 84105, ISRAEL The Division of Applied Mathematics at for the tenure-track positions should have a Dr. Christopher Starr, Chairman Email: [email protected] Brown University seeks applicants for a posi- Ph.D. in computer science or a related field. Department of Computer Science tion at the Assistant or Associate Professor Applicants for the lecturer positions should College of Charleston Brooklyn College level, in the general areas of statistics and hold an M.S. in computer science and should 66 George Street The City University of New York (CUNY) probability. See the Division web site at be committed to high quality undergraduate Charleston, SC 29424 The Department of Computer and www.dam.brown.edu for a full posting. instruction. The Department has 21 faculty For more information about our depart- Information Science (CIS) is seeking to fill Brown University is an Affirmative members, about 600 undergraduate majors, ment and this position see www.cs.cofc.edu. three tenure-track vacancies at either the Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and over 100 graduate students. In addition to The College of Charleston is an Affirmative Assistant or Associate Professor level. We are and minorities are encouraged to apply. B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Action, Equal Opportunity Employer and an urban liberal arts college, and our depart- Computer Science, the department also offers welcomes applications from women ment has 22 full-time faculty, over 700 under- Bucknell University inter-disciplinary degrees in E-Commerce and and minorities. graduate majors, over 200 Master’s students Department of Computer Science Fine Arts in Computing. Clemson University and over 20 affiliated doctoral students of the Applications are invited for two tenure is the land-grant university of South Carolina College of Mount St. Joseph CUNY Graduate Center. Several major track assistant professor positions beginning and has an enrollment of approximately Computer Science research projects are currently underway. mid-August, 2002. A Ph.D. in Computer 17,000. The University is located in Clemson, Faculty Position Extensive faculty and student SUN/UNIX Science or Computer Engineering and evi- South Carolina, a small college town on beau- The College of Mount St. Joseph, a and PC networks are used in teaching dence of commitment to excellence in tiful Lake Hartwell at the foothills of the Blue Catholic, liberal arts college located in subur- and research. teaching and research are required. Must have Ridge Mountains. The area offers numerous ban Cincinnati, is accepting applications for a We would prefer to hire three individuals, interest in participating in the teaching and outdoor activities. For additional details, full-time, tenure-track faculty position in the two specializing in any area of computer sci- the ongoing development of one or more of please see www.cs.clemson.edu. Electronic Department of Mathematics and Computer ence, and a third specializing in multimedia the required curriculum areas including the applications (preferably in PDF), including Science available in August 2002. A successful computing. introduction to computer science sequence, names of three references, may be sent to candidate will have a Ph.D. in computer sci- A successful candidate will teach under- computer organization, programming lan- [email protected]. If unavoidable, hard ence or a closely related field, a Commitment graduate and/or graduate courses in CIS and is guages, data structures, operating systems, and copies may be mailed to: expected to develop a research program in the architecture. Excellent salary and fringe bene- field. He or she should have a broad knowl- fits. Position 1: Requires primary ongoing par- edge of computer science and should have ticipation in the offering and development of good teaching skills. The multimedia specialist the required programming languages course COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING will also help develop multimedia curricula for and electives in that area of programming lan- the College. For appointment as an Assistant guages. Research should be in the area of pro- DEPARTMENT Professor, a candidate for the first position gramming languages. should have a Ph.D. in computer science or a Position 2: Requires ongoing participation related area. For the second position, a candi- in required courses. The position should help THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON date should have a Ph.D. in an area relevant us expand our elective offerings. Research area to multimedia computing and significant expe- is open. The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Computer Science and rience in the field. For appointment as an Bucknell is a highly selective private Engineering (CSE) Department - CSE@UTA invites applications for multiple Associate Professor, a preferred candidate undergraduate institution. The Department of should also have a record of participation in Computer Science currently has nine full-time tenure-track faculty positions at all levels. However, preference will be given to research grants and high-quality research in faculty. The programs are accredited by both positions at assistant or associate professor levels. All areas of computer science the field. ABET and CSAB. More information about will be considered, including: software engineering; multimedia and video Please send a CV and three letters of the program is found at http://www.eg.buck- processing; bio-informatics; pervasive computing; intelligent systems; networks and reference to: nell.edu/csci. The computing environment for telecommunications; database and data mining; and applied theory. UTA, part of Aaron Tenenbaum instruction and research is based on 70 SUN Dept. of CIS, Brooklyn College Ultra 4 workstations. The University of Texas System, is located in the heart of the rapidly growing 2900 Bedford Avenue Applications will be considered as received Dallas/Fort Worth area, one of the nation’s largest high-technology regions, with a Brooklyn, NY 11210 and recruiting will continue until the positions flourishing industrial base and excellent opportunities for industry/university [email protected]) are filled. Please send a resume, graduate tran- collaboration. Please indicate whether you are applying script (photocopy acceptable), and the name for the Assistant or Associate Professor posi- of three references to: tion and whether you are applying for the Gary Haggard, Chair We at CSE@UTA are committed to excellence in research, teaching, and computer science or the multimedia comput- Dept. of Computer Science service. Last year we kicked off a “Top 25 Initiative” with the goal of reaching a ing position. Please include your email address Bucknell University national top 25 ranking. The initiative is strongly supported by all CSE@UTA and a phone number. Review of applications Lewisburg, PA 17837 stakeholders including the UTA administration, our students and alumni, and our will begin October 21 and will continue until Bucknell encourages applications from industry partners. The highlights of the Top 25 Initiative include significant positions are filled. EOE/AA/IRCA/ADA. women and members of minority groups (EE0/AA). increase in tenure track faculty positions and PhD students; significant increase in Brown University research funds; and establishment of endowed student fellowships, endowed faculty Division of Engineering California Polytechnic State chairs, and industry-sponsored laboratories. Faculty Position in Computer Engineering University, San Luis Obispo The Division of Engineering at Brown Computer Engineering Program Applicants must have an earned doctorate in computer science, computer engi- University announces a tenure-track or Tenure Track Faculty Positions neering, or closely related fields and a commitment to teaching and scholarly tenured faculty position in Electrical Sciences The Computer Engineering Program, Cal and Computer Engineering. The appointment Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, research. Applicants are expected to have an excellent record of professional may be made at the level of Assistant, invites applications for full-time, academic accomplishments, commensurate with their level of experience. The faculty Associate or Full Professor depending on the year tenure-track faculty positions, at the assis- openings are anticipated for September 2002. Screening of applications will begin qualifications of the candidate selected. tant through full professor levels, starting dur- immediately and will continue until all positions are filled. Interested persons Qualifications include a Ph.D. or equiva- ing 2002 or a mutually acceptable date. Four should send a resume and reference letters to: lent degree in Electrical Engineering, positions are open, including two Bert and Computer Engineering or Computer Science Candace Forbes Endowed Professors of with a strong engineering background, and sig- Computer Engineering. Duties include teach- Dr. David Kung, Chair of Search Committee nificant research accomplishments in an ing undergraduate and graduate courses and Department of Computer Science and Engineering appropriate area of computer engineering. laboratories, and research. This position offers P.O. Box 19015 Areas of special interest include computer sys- the opportunity to participate in the continu- tems and architectures, digital VLSI systems ing development of the Computer Engineering For overnight express: 416 Yates St., NH300 and CAD, real-time computing, embedded Program, a joint program sponsored by the Arlington, TX 76019-0015 systems, architectures for signal/image process- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ing or communications/networking, and other Departments. Tenure will be in either depart- Phone: 817-272-3605 related areas. The appointee will be expected ment, salary and rank is commensurate with FAX: 817-272-3070 to be an important contributor to an active qualifications and experience. Candidates research program in computer engineering at must have a strong commitment to teaching, Email: [email protected]. http://www.cse.uta.edu. Brown and be able to collaborate with existing dedication to professional development and faculty. The appointee will be expected to scholarship, and broad-based knowledge of The University of Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering, with emphasis on Employer. the appropriate area of specialty in Computer computer architecture, microprocessor-sys- Engineering as well as in the core curriculum tems, networks, operating systems, advanced of the Division. The ability to make clear and chip-level design, or similar area. Ph.D. in
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Professional Opportunities to teaching excellence, and strong written and Colorado State University is an EEO/AA verbal communication skills. Faculty expecta- employer. Office of Equal Opportunity: 101 tions include student advising, curriculum Student Services. development, scholarly activity, and commit- tee service. Applicants should send a letter of Dalhousie University interest; vita with copies of graduate tran- Faculty of Computer Science scripts; a statement addressing the applicant’s Dalhousie University invites applications teaching interests and scholarship goals in a for tenure stream and contractually limited liberal arts environment; and three current let- positions at all levels, within the Faculty of ters of recommendation describing teaching Computer Science, which currently has 27 experience and abilities. Applicants will be faculty positions and approximately 620 notified by e-mail when their files are com- undergraduate majors and 260 master’s and plete. A review of resumes will begin immedi- doctoral students. The Faculty recently moved ately and continue until identification of the to a new, dedicated building, and initiatives appropriate candidate. Send application are under development involving multidisci- materials to: plinary research projects with university and Dr. Scott Sportsman industry partners. For example, a Master of Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Electronic Commerce degree is now offered in Science collaboration with the Faculties of Law and College of Mount Saint Joseph Management. Further expansion of Computer 5701 Delhi Road Science is a priority for the University. Cincinnati, Ohio 45233 Dalhousie University is located in Halifax, For general information about the college Nova Scotia, which is the largest city in and specific information about the depart- Atlantic Canada and affords its residents out- ment, visit web site www.msj.edu. standing quality of life. EOE The Faculty pursues a strong research pro- gram in the following areas: Software Colorado State University Engineering and Applications, Data Computer Science Department Collection, Storage and Analysis, Department Chair Communications and Networks, Theory and Colorado State University invites nomina- Algorithms, Network \& New Media tions and applications for the position of Chair Applications. Application areas include elec- of the Computer Science Department. tronic commerce and computers in medicine. Anticipated starting date is July 1, 2002. The opportunity exists for faculty members to Candidates for this position must have a Ph.D. participate in industrially sponsored research in Computer Science or related field, an excel- through the Global Information Networking lent record in teaching, a well-regarded research Institute University Services Inc. (GINIus). program with broad based funding and be quali- The Faculty is interested in outstanding fied for an appointment as a full Professor. Prior candidates from all areas of computer science; administrative experience is desirable. however, preference will be given to candi- The Computer Science Department has dates interested in network centric computing, 750 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate software engineering, and related areas, such students in its M.S. and Ph.D. programs. The as networking, HCI, or distributed applica- department currently has 18 regular faculty tions. Successful candidates will be encouraged engaged in state, federal and corporate funded to establish connections with industry. research in the areas of artificial intelligence, Applicants should have a Ph.D. in software engineering, parallel processing, net- Computer Science, although a Ph.D. in a working and security. Please send a vita and related area may be considered. Evidence names, addresses, telephone numbers, and of strong commitment to and aptitude for e-mail addresses of five references, or a letter research and teaching is essential. Rank of nomination to: and salary will be commensurate Professor Richard A. Davis, Chair with qualifications. Search Committee Applications should include a curriculum College of Natural Sciences vitae and the names and complete addresses of 117 Statistics Building three references, and should be sent to the Colorado State University address below. Applicants should arrange for Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 their referees to forward letters of reference Screening of applications will begin directly to the same address. November 19, 2001 and will continue The Chair, Appointments Committee until the position is filled. Questions and Faculty of Computer Science Garry Davis, Manager In Telecommunications, faculty are inquiries can be sent via e-mail to 6050 University Avenue Cybersecurity Research Group actively pursuing research in performance [email protected] Dalhousie University Institute for Security Technology Studies analysis of data networks, techniques for pro- Colorado State University is an EEO/AA Halifax, NS Canada, B3H 1W5 Dartmouth College viding differentiated quality of service to employer. Equal Opportunity Office: 101 E-mail: [email protected] 45 Lyme Road Internet applications, formal methods in pro- Student Services. Applications will be accepted until all Hanover, NH 03755 tocol development, efficient reliable multicast- available positions are filled. In accordance [email protected] ing for multimedia systems, distributed Colorado State University with Canadian immigration requirements, pri- fax: (603) 646-0660 network management architectures, and Computer Science Department ority will be given to Canadian citizens and phone: (603) 646-0673 effective wireless network coding techniques. Tenure-Track Faculty Position permanent residents of Canada. Dalhousie In Information Systems, faculty actively The Department of Computer Science at University is an Employment Equity/ DePaul University pursue research in electronic commerce, global Colorado State University solicits applications Affirmative Action employer. The University School of Computer Science, information systems, system development for a tenure-track faculty position, beginning encourages applications from qualified Telecommunications and Information methodologies, technology-supported learning, Fall 2002. The appointment will be preferably Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, Systems IT job skills, group support systems, collabora- made at the level of assistant professor, but racially visible persons, and women. Tenure-track Full-time Faculty Positions tive systems design, data mining, business appointment at a more senior level is also pos- The School of Computer Science, reengineering, IT outsourcing, and IT strategy sible for candidates who can demonstrate a Dartmouth College Telecommunications and Information Systems and planning. Candidates should have a Ph.D. strong connection to ongoing department Department of Computer Science (CTI) of DePaul University invites applica- in a relevant field by the date of appointment. research. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in The Department of Computer Science tions for multiple tenure-track positions begin- To apply, complete the online application computer science, computer engineering, or a anticipates hiring one or more Assistant ning September 2002. We welcome form (at www.cti.depaul.edu) and send a related field. Applicants will be expected to Professors of Computer Science. We are par- applications from outstanding applicants in all curriculum vita, a teaching statement, a teach undergraduate and graduate courses, and ticularly interested in candidates in the areas areas of specialization. CTI is a young and research statement and at least three letters of they must demonstrate potential for excel- of algorithms, graphics, security, and data- growing school in downtown Chicago, with a reference to: lence in research and teaching. bases. wide range of degree programs. Undergraduate Faculty Search Committee, School of The Computer Science Department has The Computer Science Department offers programs include Computer Science, Computer Science, Telecommunications and over 700 undergraduate majors and 105 gradu- Bachelors, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. Detailed Information Systems, E-Commerce Information Systems ate students enrolled in Master’s and doctoral information can be obtained at: Technology, Human-Computer Interaction, DePaul University programs. The department currently has 17 http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu. Network Technology, and Computer Graphics 243 South Wabash Avenue tenure-track faculty, with strong research pro- Persons interested should submit a curricu- and Animation. Graduate programs at the Chicago, IL 60604-2301 grams in artificial intelligence, software engi- lum vitae and a list of at least four references, Masters level include Computer Science, E-mail: [email protected] neering, and parallel and distributed at least one of whom can comment on teach- Telecommunications, E-Commerce Electronic submission of documents is computation. Computer facilities are excel- ing. Review of the applications will begin Technology, Information Systems, Distributed strongly encouraged. Applications will be lent, and there are ample opportunities for immediately and will continue until the search Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, accepted until positions are filled. DePaul research collaborations with local industry. is complete. Please send application materials Software Engineering, and Management University is committed to equality in educa- Colorado State University, with an enrollment and general inquiries to: Information Systems. CTI also offers a Ph.D. tional and employment opportunities. of 23,000 students, is located in Fort Collins, Delia Mauceli program in Computer Science. CTI currently Colorado, an attractive community of over Computer Science Recruiting has over 80 full-time faculty and a student Duke University 100,000 people, at the base of the Front Range Department of Computer Science body growing at a rate of approximately 20% Department of Computer Science of the Rocky Mountains, 65 miles north of Dartmouth College per year. By bridging faculty from several areas Experimental Systems Faculty Position Denver. The northern Front Range offers a 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory of computing and information technology and We invite applications and nominations wide range of outdoor recreational activities. Hanover, NH 03755-3510 by placing them in the Loop — the heart of for a tenure-track or tenured faculty position More information about the department and Specific questions can be referred to David Chicago’s business and financial district — at any rank in the Department of Computer its research programs can be obtained from the Nicol, at the same address or at the following DePaul has established a unique, dynamic, and Science at Duke University, to start department home page at email address [email protected]. entrepreneurial school. CTI rewards excellent September 2002. Preference will be given to http://www.cs.colostate.edu Dartmouth is an equal opportunity/ teaching, provides strong support for research, applicants in the various areas of experimental Applicants should send a curriculum vitae Affirmative Action employer and encourages and encourages creative applied scholarship. systems and architecture. and letters from at least three professional ref- applications from women and members of DePaul draws students of many backgrounds We continue to build upon an already erences to: minority groups. and cultures from a diverse urban setting. strong, highly collaborative group in experi- Faculty Search Committee Thus, CTI is interested in recruiting and mental systems. We are broadly interested in Computer Science Department Dartmouth College maintaining a diverse group of faculty. all areas of experimental systems including Colorado State University Institute for Security Technology Studies Members of all underrepresented groups, high-speed networking, Internet environments 601 South Howes, Room 211 Research Associate women, veterans, and persons with disabilities and services, mobile and wireless computing, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1873 Applicants should possess a M.S. or PhD are invited and encouraged to apply. In databases and large-scale storage, computer Please include a statement indicating how in computer science or a related field and have Computer Science, faculty are actively pursu- architecture, parallel and distributed systems, your background and interests match the a strong background in networking and secu- ing research in a wide variety of areas, includ- compilers and programming languages, and expectations of the position described above. rity. The researcher must have advanced pro- ing artificial intelligence, computational operating systems. The department’s telephone number is (970) gramming experience in C++ and Java. complexity, computer vision, databases, dis- This faculty hire will be in a position to 491-5862, Fax number is (970) 491-2466, and The Institute for Security Technology tributed computing, foundations of program- help guide and influence the continued expan- email inquiries should be directed to faculty- Studies is a principal national center for ming languages, graphics, human computer sion of our vibrant and growing Department. [email protected]. Screening of applica- research, development, and assessment of interaction, information retrieval, intelligent For more information about the faculty, facili- tions will begin January 1, 2002 and continue technologies for combating electronic crime agents, parallel and distributed algorithms, ties and other resources, please refer to until the position is filled. and terrorism. quantum computation, software engineering, www.cs.duke.edu Applicants can send a brief cover letter and web data mining. (cont’d) and CV via mail, fax or email attention: Page 13 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
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Applications should be submitted in hard closely related field, with demonstrated prom- adaptive computing, and testing. Georgia offers a B.S. degree focusing on the application copy or via email with PDF attachments. ise in research and a strong commitment to Tech has an outstanding undergraduate and of information technology to various disci- Applications will include a curriculum vitae, a teaching in a liberal arts environment. graduate student body and significant institu- plines and has M.S. programs in Human list of publications, and copies of the most Senior candidates must have an established tional support for cross-disciplinary research. Computer Interaction, and Bio and Chemical important publications. A Ph.D. in computer research program. The Computer Engineering faculty benefits Informatics. Cross-appointments with science or related area is required. Applicants We seek candidates in both theory and sys- from strong research collaborations with tradi- Informatics are possible in computer science should arrange for at least four letters of refer- tems. In systems, there is preference for tional Electrical Engineering and Computer related areas such as data mining and search ence to be sent directly to the Faculty Search database, high performance computing, Science areas and actively participates in several technologies. A Ph.D. in Computer Science is Chair. To guarantee full consideration, appli- networking, or distributed systems research. federal and state sponsored research centers. required for all CS faculty positions. cations and letters of reference should be Exceptional candidates in other areas are also Please visit the ECE web site at Applicants must have demonstrated received no later than January 15, 2002. encouraged to apply. There are diverse oppor- http://www.ece/gatech.edu. Interested candi- potential for excellence and productivity in Send all information to: tunities for collaboration with CS faculty, dates should send CV, letter of interest, and research. In addition, a strong contribution to Faculty Search Chair applied and numerical mathematicians, and list of references to: the educational mission of the department is Department of Computer Science university faculty in biomedical and scientific Chair, School of ECE expected. The department occupies a spacious Duke University computing. Emory University has embarked Georgia Institute of Technology limestone building with extensive state-of-the- Durham, NC 27708-0129 on an ambitious development program for Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 art computing facilities. The attractive wooded [email protected] the sciences and we expect substantial Georgia Tech is an equal opportunity, campus of Indiana University is located in Duke University is an affirmative action, growth in departmental and interdepartmental affirmative action employer. Bloomington, chosen as one of the most cul- equal opportunity employer. education and research programs. We are tural and livable small cities in the US, and committed to adding significant strength in Georgia Tech only one hour from the Indianapolis airport. Duke University computer science. Tenure Track Faculty To learn more about the department please Department of Computer Science Applicants must provide CV’s, with at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing visit our web site at www.cs.indiana.edu. Please send a detailed CV and a list of Computational Science and Engineering least three recommenders’ names, and have invites applications for tenure track faculty references to: Position recommendation letters sent to: positions. Applications from outstanding can- Professor Dwight Duffus didates in all areas of computing and at all lev- Faculty Search, Computer Science The Department of Computer Science at Department Duke University invites applications and nom- Screening Committee els are welcome. We are especially interested Department of Mathematics and in associate or full professor level candidates Indiana University, Lindley Hall 215 inations for a position of Professor and Bloomington, IN 47405-7104 Director of Duke’s Center for Computational Computer Science who have an outstanding record of research Emory University and teaching, particularly in biocomputing, email: [email protected] Science and Engineering (CSE) to start Indiana University is an Equal September 2002. Candidates should be recog- Atlanta, GA 30322 graphics and animation, information security, Screening of applications will begin on 15 and networking. With an academic faculty of Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. nized leaders in their field with a strong The Computer Science Department research record and general knowledge of CSE December 2001, with initial interviews 64, and a research faculty of 29, the College planned for mid-January and continuing until has a current enrollment of 1534 undergradu- strongly encourages applications from including numerical analysis and scientific women and minorities. computing. They should also have a record of positions are filled. ates, 125 Masters students, and 200 Ph.D. stu- Informal inquiries are welcome; please see dents. The College has a friendly and collaboration and serious interest in applica- Iowa State University tions of numerical computation, should be our web page at http://www.mathcs. supportive environment, a superb support staff interested in enhancing as much as possible emory.edu/News/Ops/ for further details. and a strong sense of community. Department of Electrical and Computer computational science as a broad-based cam- Emory University is an Affirmative College strengths are in a broad range of Engineering pus activity and should be willing to work Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. research areas. A number of research centers, Department of Electrical and Computer closely with faculty from a variety of depart- including the Graphics, Visualization and Engineering invites applications for several ments to develop research and teaching pro- Florida Institute of Technology Usability Center, the Center for Experimental tenure track positions at all levels. We are grams in this area. Some preference may be Department of Computer Sciences Research in Computer Systems, Georgia Tech seeking applicants in the areas of Computer given to candidates with an applied interest in The Department of Computer Sciences at Information Security Center, and Modeling Architecture, Networks, Parallel and computational biology and genomics. Florida Tech is searching for assistant profes- and Simulation Research and Education Distributed Computing, Software Engineering, The Department presently has two tenured sors to join our faculty. Applicants in all fields Center, support a wide variety of collaborative VLSI, Computer Graphics, Information faculty in numerical analysis and scientific of computer science and information systems as well as focused research projects. We are Systems and Security, and Bioinformatics and computation with considerable additional will be considered. They must have a Ph.D. ranked among the top computer science and Computational Biology. Candidates with strength in CSE throughout the Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, information technology programs nationally. interests in other areas of Computer (including Mathematics and Statistics) and or a closely related field. For full considera- One of the College’s missions is to interact Engineering will also be considered. Engineering Departments. Other research tion applications should be received by significantly with other academic units, so Candidates with interdisciplinary research areas of the Department are artificial intelli- 15 December 2001. candidates with an inter-disciplinary research interests are encouraged to apply. gence, systems, and theory, and this position is We seek individuals who can become com- focus and/or interest in potential joint Responsibilities include teaching at the under- also expected to enhance and influence the mitted to advancing Florida Tech in several appointments are welcome. Georgia Tech’s graduate and graduate levels, pursuing leading continued expansion of our vibrant and grow- ways: improving undergraduate education and location in midtown Atlanta, home to numer- edge research in computer engineering and ing Department. For more information about strengthening our master’s programs, enriching ous high-tech companies, offers many opportu- publishing research results in leading journals the faculty, facilities and other resources, our Ph.D. program, and increasing research nities for working with leading edge and conferences, guiding graduate and under- please refer to www.cs.duke.edu. funding. The activities within the department companies and startups. graduate students, seeking, establishing, and Applications should be submitted in hard and in the local area are conducive to research We encourage early applications but full maintaining external research funding, build- copy or via email with PDF attachments. in software engineering, computer security, consideration will be given to all applications ing a research group and participating in out- Applications will include a curriculum vitae, a telecommunications, imaging, autonomous that are received by January 1, 2002. Positions reach activities. list of publications, and copies of the most control, e-commerce, information assurance, may be filled at any time, but we intend to By the date of employment, applicants important publications. A Ph.D. in computer and web technology, just to mention a few. make final decisions by May 1, 2002. should have a PhD in computer engineering, science or related area is required. Applicants Florida Tech is located on the Space Hardcopy applications, including a resume, computer science, or a related discipline. should arrange for at least four letters of refer- Coast. The campus occupies 130 tropical names of at least three references, and any Applicants must have a strong commitment to ence to be sent directly to the Search Chair. acres, including a picturesque, 30-acre botani- publications you’d like us to read, should be perform high quality basic or applied research To guarantee full consideration, applications cal garden. The campus is 5 minutes from the sent to: and publish results, a strong commitment to and letters of reference should be received no Indian River estuary, 10 minutes from the Dr. Mustaque Ahamad, Co-Chair teaching, and demonstrated potential for lead- later than January 15, 2002. Atlantic Ocean and 50 minutes from Kennedy Faculty Search Committee ership in professional activities in areas of Send all information to: Space Center. College of Computing their specialty. Senior level candidates must Donald J. Rose Please send a cover letter, a curriculum Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated ability to provide leader- CSE Search Chair vitae and contact information of at least three Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 ship and mentoring to build a strong research Department of Computer Science references to: Phone: (404) 894-8357 and teaching program in his/her area of Duke University Faculty Search Committee Fax: (404) 894-9846 expertise. Exceptional senior candidates will Durham, NC 27708-0129 Department of Computer Sciences In addition, please email a URL pointing be considered for the Junkins and Palmer [email protected] Florida Institute of Technology to your on-line resume and publications. endowed chairs and for the Whitney and Duke University is an affirmative action, 150 W. University Blvd., Email: [email protected] Sahai endowed professorships. Exceptional equal opportunity employer. Melbourne, FL 32901-6975 Georgia Tech is an Affirmative junior candidates will be considered for the Florida Tech is an Equal Opportunity Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Litton endowed professorship. Salary is com- Emory University Employer. Applications from women and under-repre- mensurate with qualifications. The sented minorities are strongly encouraged. Department information can be found at Mathematics and Computer Science http://www.ee.iastate.edu. Applicants should Department Georgia Institute of Technology Computer Engineering Faculty Gordon College send a letter of application and a resume Tenured and Tenure-Track Positions in Department of Mathematics and including names and addresses of at least 3 Computer Science The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech seeks outstand- Computer Science references to: The Department of Mathematics and ing tenure-track candidates for research and Associate/Assistant Professor of S. S. Venkata, Chair Computer Science, Emory University, invites teaching in all areas of Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering applications for two anticipated tenure track Computer Science including embedded systems, digital systems, Gordon College invites applications for a 2215 Coover Hall, Iowa State University Assistant Professorships or tenured appoint- VLSI, CAD, computer architecture, novel Ames, IA 50011 ments at the rank of Associate Professor or tenure-track position in Computer Science computing paradigms, hardware/software co- beginning August 15, 2002. The department is Application review will begin immediately Professor, effective 2002-2003. Applicants design, systems software, formal verification, and will continue until all positions are filled. must have a PhD in computer science or a seeking a person capable of excellent teaching analog computation, computer networks, with a commitment to scholarship involving To guarantee consideration, the application undergraduates. Teaching responsibilities will must be received by December 31, 2001. Iowa be in introductory and upper-level courses in State University is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer. WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY an object-oriented paradigm. Faculty teach three courses or equivalency per term. A Ph.D. Mathematics and Computer Science in Computer Science is desired and previous Johns Hopkins University teaching/professional experience and/or schol- Department of Computer Science Fall 2002 Facult arship are preferred. Candidates must have a The Department of Computer Science at y religious commitment compatible with Johns Hopkins University is seeking applica- Gordon’s evangelical Christian mission. tions for tenure-track faculty positions at all WCSU is seeking a candidate in Computer Science for a tenure track position Review of applications will begin immediately ranks and all fields. We have particular inter- (level is negotiable) to start the Fall semester, August 2002. and will continue until the position is filled. est in candidates with research and teaching Send a letter of application, vita and a two- interests in systems, networks, security, algo- Qualifications: A Ph.D. in CS is preferred but candidates with a doctorate in a page statement of educational philosophy to: rithmic theory, machine learning, as well as related field and either a master’s degree in CS or evidence of successful teaching Office of the Provost robotics, computational biology and bioinfor- of CS courses for a period of five years may be considered. Preference will be 255 Grapevine Road matics. All applicants must have a Ph. D. in given to candidates who can teach courses in networks and operating systems. All Wenham, MA 01984 computer science or a related field and are candidates must be able to teach courses in C++ and object-oriented expected to show evidence of an ability and programming. Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate strong Indiana University willingness to develop academic research and teaching ability. Other duties include: maintaining and developing the CS Computer Science Department teach programs of the highest quality. Faculty Positions Commitment to quality teaching at the under- curriculum, academic advisement, department and university committee work graduate and graduate levels will be required and continued research. Some night teaching is expected of all faculty in the The Indiana University Computer Science Department anticipates filling several tenure- of all candidates considered. department. track faculty positions beginning 2002-2003. Johns Hopkins is a private University well- Application Process: Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, a Areas of interest are databases, embedded sys- known for its commitment to academic excel- resume, a curriculum vitae, copies of transcripts of all graduate work, a statement tems and networking. In addition our new, lence. Accordingly, Hopkins attracts of teaching philosophy, and current letters of reference including telephone privately endowed, pervasive technology labs extremely talented undergraduates and gradu- numbers to CS Search Committee, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, will be hiring several senior positions in the ate students. The Department of Computer areas of graphics, human computer interac- Science stands among the first rank of depart- 181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06810. Applications must be received by tion, embedded systems and data mining. The ments at the Hopkins in terms of funded November 30, 2001. CS department, which is part of the College of research activities and student involvement in WCSU is an AA/EO Educator/Employer. Arts and Sciences, is working cooperatively educational programs. The administration at with our new School of Informatics, which Page 14 November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
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Johns Hopkins recognizes the major role com- builds on internationally recognized research Applications must include descriptions of Faculty Search Committee puter science and information technology programs based in the School of Medicine and teaching and research interests along with Department of Computer Science & must play in the future of the University. The the Whiting School of Engineering, including copies of representative publications. Non- Engineering anticipated expansion in faculty and infra- the Department of Biomedical Engineering. U.S. citizens must include visa status. 3115 Engineering Building structure in the Department of Computer Current research activities in computational The department has a faculty of seventeen Michigan State University Science is directed at further increasing biology include an active collaboration with fac- and offers BS, MS, MSE, and PhD degrees. East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1226 national and international recognition of our ulty at The Institute for Genomic Research Computing facilities center around a network [email protected] research and teaching programs. (www.tigr.org) in nearby Rockville, MD. of UNIX-and Solaris-based single- and multi- Michigan State University is an Equal See the department webpage at Successful applicants will be expected to estab- processor Sun workstations, X-terminals, PCs Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution lish independently funded research programs, http://www.cs.jhu.edu for additional informa- and a Beowulf system. Details can be found at and encourages applications from women and and will participate in the graduate and under- the URL http://www.cis.ksu.edu/ members of ethnic minority groups. Persons tion about the department, including links graduate educational activities of both the to research laboratories and centers. Please send applications to: with disabilities have the right to request and Department of Computer Science and Dr. Virgil Wallentine, Head receive reasonable accommodation. Applicants should submit all their application the Institute. Department of Computing and material (CV’s, lists of references, statement Applicants should submit all their applica- Information Sciences of objectives, etc.) electronically. See tion material (CV’s, lists of references, state- Michigan State University 234 Nichols Hall, Kansas State University http://www.cs.jhu.edu/apply for instructions ment of objectives, etc.) electronically. See Department of Telecommunication Manhattan, KS 66506 and guidelines. Please send email to http://www.cs.jhu.edu/apply for instructions The Department of Telecommunication at (email: [email protected]) [email protected] for questions or clarifications and guidelines. Please send email to: Michigan State University invites applications Review of applications will commence or for any other technical issue. Those appli- [email protected] for questions or clarifications for a tenure stream, Assistant Professor in October 15 and continue until the positions cants who cannot follow the above guidelines or for any other technical issue. information technology. We seek a talented are filled. (e.g. do not have access to electronic facili- Those applicants who cannot follow the teacher/scholar with a background in the area Kansas State University is an Affirmative ties) are encouraged to make alternative above guidelines (e.g. do not have access to of information technology and services. Action Equal Opportunity Employer. arrangements (e.g. submission via hard copy) electronic facilities) are encouraged to make Applicants must possess a Ph.D. in a related by contacting: alternative arrangements (e.g. submission via discipline. Applicants should submit a letter of Faculty Search Committee hard copy) by contacting: Massachusetts Institute of interest, a curriculum vitae, and the names, Department of Computer Science, Faculty Search Committee Technology addresses and telephone numbers of three ref- Room 224 Department of Computer Science Department of Electrical Engineering & erences. The deadline for submission is New Engineering Building Room 224 New Engineering Building Computer Science January 5, 2002 or until the position is filled. Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University Faculty Positions Send applications to: Baltimore, MD 21218-2694 Baltimore, MD 21218-2694 The Department of Electrical Engineering Pamela Whitten Fax: 410-516-6134 Fax: (410) 516-6134 and Computer Science seeks candidates for Michigan State University Phone: 410 516 8577 Phone: 410 516 8577 faculty positions starting in September 2002. East Lansing, MI 48824-1212 email: [email protected] email: [email protected]. We anticipate openings for several faculty USA We encourage applications to be submitted We encourage applications to be submitted appointments for individuals who are complet- Telephone: +1(517) 355-4451 as soon as possible; however, to ensure full as soon as possible; however, to ensure full ing, or who have recently completed, a doctor- Fax: +1(517) 355-1292 consideration, complete applications consideration, complete applications (includ- ate. In special cases, a senior faculty appointment E-mail; [email protected] (including the reference letters) should be ing the reference letters) should be received by may be possible. Faculty duties include teaching Website: www.tc.msu.edu received by February 1, 2001. February 1, 2001. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, The Johns Hopkins University is a The Johns Hopkins University is a research, and supervision of theses. National Science Foundation, EEO/AA employer. Women and minorities EEO/AA employer. Women and minorities We will consider candidates with back- Arlington, VA are strongly encouraged to apply. are strongly encouraged to apply. grounds and interests in all areas of electrical Division of Advanced Computational engineering and computer science. Infrastructure and Research Johns Hopkins University Kansas State University All candidates should write to the address Director Department of Computer Science Department of Computing and Information below, describing their professional interests NSF’s Directorate for Computer and The Johns Hopkins University and their goals in both teaching and research. Information Science and Engineering seeks Department of Computer Science invites Sciences Faculty Position Each application should include a curriculum candidates for Director, Division of Advanced applications for a tenure-track faculty position vitae and the names and addresses of three or Computational Infrastructure and Research in the general areas of computational biology The department of Computing and Information Sciences at Kansas State more individuals who will provide letters of (ACIR). The Division supports research and and bioinformatics. Appointments at all aca- recommendation. Please arrange to have such demic levels will be considered. The successful University invites applications for tenure-track education in computational research and letters sent directly to the address below. All closely related areas. Information about the candidate’s primary appointment will be in the position beginning in Spring and Fall 2002. candidates should indicate citizenship and, in Department of Computer Science Applicants should have a PhD degree in com- Division’s activities may be found at the case of non-US citizens, describe their visa http://www.nsf.gov/home/cise/. (www.cs.jhu.edu) of the Whiting School of puter science by the starting date of the status. Please respond by January 15, 2002. Appointment to this Senior Executive Engineering, and he/she will be a member of the appointment; salary will be commensurate Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute Send all applications to: Service position may be on a career basis or a with qualifications. Applicants must be com- Prof. F. C. Hennie 2 to 3 year limited term basis, with a salary (www.wbmei.jhu.edu). This newly formed mitted to both teaching and research. Primary Institute provides a highly interactive environ- Massachusetts Institute of Technology range of $120,261 to $133,700. Alternatively, consideration will be given to computer scien- 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 38-435 the incumbent may be assigned under ment in which multidisciplinary teams of engi- tists who work in data/knowledge base systems, neers, biologists, computer scientists, and Cambridge, MA 02139 Intergovernmental Personnel Act provisions. mathematicians will address biomedical prob- programming languages, distributed and paral- M.I.T. is an equal opportunity/affirmative Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent lems of fundamental importance. The Institute lel systems and software engineering. action employer. professional experience in computer science or related field, substantial research adminis- Michigan State University tration experience, and demonstrated www.cse.msu.edu leadership skills. Department of Computer Science & Announcement S20020002, with position Engineering requirements and application procedures, is Faculty Positions located on the NSF Home Page at The Department of Computer Science and http://www.nsf.gov/home/chart/work.htm#hrm Engineering (CSE) at Michigan State . Applicants may also obtain the announce- University invites applications for several ments by contacting the Executive Personnel 100% AY tenure-stream faculty positions to Staff, 703-292-8755 (Hearing impaired indi- grow and strengthen the Department. viduals may call TDD 703-292-8044). Appointments may start in either January or Applications must be received by August 2002. Candidates from all areas of spe- November 30, 2001. cialization in computer science will be consid- NSF is an equal opportunity employer ered. The Department is particularly interested committed to employing a highly qualified in candidates whose research areas comple- staff reflecting the diversity of our nation. ment or enhance its three existing strength areas: networking and mobile computing; NEC Research Institute robotics and machine intelligence; and soft- Computer Science Division ware engineering and formal methods. The Researcher (job title: Scientist). candidate should hold a Ph.D. degree in com- Research Programmer (job title: Research puter science or a related field. The appoint- Associate or Senior Research Associate). ment will be made at the rank appropriate to NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, the credentials of the candidate. seeks to fill one of the following positions. As a unit within the College of Researcher. Do applied research in face Engineering, the Department offers BS, MS, recognition. Educational level: PhD or and PhD degrees in Computer Science and equivalent experience. jointly administers a BS program in Computer Research Programmer. Support applied Engineering. The research activities in the research in face recognition. Educational level: Department are funded by a broad spectrum of MS or equivalent experience. government agencies and private corporations. We are working on a project to go well Michigan State University nurtures interdisci- beyond the current state of the art in face plinary work across departments, with indus- recognition. You should have appropriate try, and with other universities. The CSE background in computer vision, face recogni- Department presently has 25 faculty members tion, learning algorithms. Experience with or and awards roughly 100 BS, 40 MS, and 10 willingness to work with vision hardware PhD degrees per year. Candidates should visit would be useful. Programming is to be done the Department web pages at the URL given primarily in a limited subset of C++; C experi- above for detailed information on our research ence is sufficient (C++ experience is more and instructional programs. important for the Research Programmer posi- Michigan State University enjoys a park- tion). We use mainly Linux and gcc, but also like campus of over 2000 developed acres and Windows NT/2000 and MS Visual C++, and over 3,000 acres of outlying research facilities SGI’s and Irix, and Matlab on various plat- and natural areas. The campus is adjacent to forms. Salaries are competitive and commen- the city of East Lansing and the capital city of surate with experience, and a generous bonus Lansing. The Greater Lansing area has approx- plan applies. imately 250,000 residents. The local commu- NEC Research Institute performs pure and nities have excellent school systems and place applied research in computer science and a high value on education. Michigan State physical sciences, and is located in the University is pro-active in exploring opportu- Princeton, NJ area. nities for the employment of spouses, both NEC Research Institute is an Equal inside and outside the University. Opportunity Employer. Applications will be reviewed and inter- For more information, please contact: views will be arranged on a continuing basis A. Peter Blicher until all positions are filled. Applications for NEC Research Institute Spring 2002 interviews should be received 4 Independence Way before January 15, 2002 for full consideration. Princeton, NJ 08540 Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, [email protected] the names of three references, and a statement Resumes and vitae should also be sent to of research and teaching interests to: these addresses. Any form is acceptable; elec- tronic is better; ascii is best; use obscure for- mats at your own risk, but we can probably (cont’d) Page 15 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Professional Opportunities read them. Please provide as much informa- North Carolina State University by Lucent that will be used for research pur- [email protected] if they wish. NC tion as possible. Department of Computer Science poses. The North Carolina Giga-POP and State is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative The NEC Research Institute web site is Operating Systems Internet-2 facilities are also available, as our Action employer. Individuals with disabilities http://www.neci.nj.nec.com Tenure-Track Assistant Professors faculty play a prominent role within these ini- desiring accommodations in the application The North Carolina State University tiatives through collaborations with other process should contact the Computer Science New York University Department of Computer Science seeks one or Universities and local industry. Department at NCSU at (919) 515-2858. Department of Computer Science more tenure-track assistant professors in the The University is located in Raleigh, The department expects to have several area of operating systems to begin August 16, which forms one vertex of the world- OGI School of Science and regular faculty positions beginning in 2002. We are seeking candidates who have renowned Research Triangle Park. The Engineering September 2002 and invites candidates at all worked on operating systems support for dis- Research Triangle area was recently recog- Department of Computer Science and levels. We are particularly interested in the tributed computing, real-time embedded com- nized as one of the “best places to live” in the Engineering following areas: interfaces (graphics, vision, puting, parallel computing, networked U.S. and boasts a high concentration of high The Department of Computer Science and speech), e-commerce, data mining, mobile and multimedia computing, or mobile wireless technology companies. The core of our net- Engineering invites applications for faculty autonomous computing, distributed and secure computing. Candidates are expected to have working activities takes place at NCSU’s positions at all ranks. Our target areas include systems, real-time systems, verification, and both strong experimental and theoretical Centennial Campus, an advanced technology bioinformatics and computational biology, bioinformatics. We will also consider out- interests in the areas of operating systems community for university, corporate and gov- security, mobile and embedded systems, real- standing candidates in other areas. Faculty research and education. Successful candidates ernment R&D facilities and business incuba- time and reactive systems, computational sci- members are expected to develop an inde- will have a PhD in Computer Science or a tors, which is quickly emerging as the ence, modeling and simulation, databases and pendent first-rate research program and to par- related field, and demonstrated potential to Research Triangle area’s fastest growing devel- data mining, computer architecture, vision, ticipate in teaching at all levels from the establish a strong research and teaching pro- opment. We recently obtained space in the robotics, visualization and sensor fusion. In undergraduate to the doctoral. The new gram in NCSU. new $41 million Engineering Graduate addition, we are interested in excellent candi- appointees will be offered highly competitive These positions have been created to com- Research Center on NCSU’s industry-oriented dates that enhance our existing capabilities in salaries, competitive startup packages, and plement our established research strength in Centennial Campus, which has become the networking, distributed systems, machine low-cost university housing within short walk- computer networking and distributed systems. focal point for networking-related research. learning, human-computer interaction, spoken ing distance of the department. New York A number of faculty have an interest in multi- The State of North Carolina recently passed a language systems, software engineering, University is located in Greenwich Village, media networking, optical networks, network major bond initiative that includes funds for applied formal methods and verification of one of the most attractive residential areas of security, real-time communication, quality-of- the construction, within 2-3 years, of a new both hardware and software. Manhattan. service, concurrent system testing, distributed building on Centennial Campus to house the Building on a shared commitment to The department may also have one or database systems, and object- oriented pro- Department of Computer Science. excellence in graduate education and research, more visiting positions, with appointments for gramming. Their work is supported by NSF, Interested candidates should send a cover Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and either one or two semesters. DARPA, AFOSR, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, letter, their curriculum vitae (including citi- Technology (OGI) merged with Oregon The department has 27 regular faculty IBM, MCNC, Nortel, NSA, and the State of zenship and visa status), sample of two papers Health Sciences University (OHSU) on July members and several adjunct, clinical, North Carolina. The Department is in a and the names of four references to: 1, 2001. OGI now is the OGI School of research, and visiting faculty members. period of rapid growth and advancement, and Chair, Network Recruitment Committee Science and Engineering in the re-named Current strengths of the department lie in is positioning itself to be at the forefront of Department of Computer Science Oregon Health & Science University algorithms, compilers and programming lan- selected areas in computer science. The North Carolina State University (OHSU). The merger will enable the CSE guages, computational biology, computer candidate will have access to our state-of-art Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 department to expand in core disciplines and graphics, computer vision and image process- high performance ATM-based network, Prospective candidates are encouraged to establish strong interdisciplinary collabora- ing, cryptography and security, distributed and and the North Carolina Giga-POP and access the Department’s homepage tions among researchers in information tech- parallel computing, multimedia, natural lan- Internet-2 facilities. (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/) and to send mail to nology, health care and biosciences. guage processing, scientific computing, and The University is located in Raleigh which [email protected]. NC State is an Significant collaborations between OGI and verification. There are specialized laboratories forms one vertex of the world-renowned Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action OHSU have existed for 30 years. and research facilities for computer graphics Research Triangle Park. The Research employer. Individuals with disabilities desiring The typical teaching load in CSE is 2 and multimedia, computer vision, and parallel Triangle area was recently recognized as one of accommodations in the application process graduate-level classes per year. Faculty receive and distributed computing. the best place to live in the U.S. It also boasts should contact the Computer Science contracts of 2-5 years duration, renewable Collaborative research with industry is a high concentration of high technology com- Department at NCSU at (919) 515-2858. annually with satisfactory academic perform- facilitated by the geographic proximity to the panies. In addition to the historical campus, ance. NSF, NIH and other federal research main research centers of AT&T, BellCore, the department occupies substantial space on North Carolina State University sponsors recognize OGI faculty appointments IBM, Lucent, Matsushita, NEC, and Siemens. NCSU’s new Centennial Campus, an innova- Department of Computer Science as being equivalent to tenured positions. Applications should include a resume, a tive colocation of university and industrial Database Systems and Data Mining OGI is located 12 miles west of Portland, statement of career objectives, key publica- labs designed to foster close collaboration. The The North Carolina State University Oregon, in the heart of the Silicon Forest. tions, and names of references, at least three State of North Carolina recently passed a Department of Computer Science seeks one or Portland’s thriving high-tech community, for junior positions and at least five for senior major bond initiative that includes $83 mil- more tenure-track assistant professors in the extensive cultural amenities and spectacular positions. Applicants are encouraged to pro- lion for a new engineering campus on area of database systems and/or data mining to natural surroundings combine to make the vide a URL for a description of their activities. Centennial Campus. A new 90,000 sq. ft. begin August 16, 2002. Successful candidates quality of life here extraordinary. To learn To guarantee full consideration, applications $36 million Computer Science/Computer will have a PhD in Computer Science or a more about the department, OGI, OHSU and should be received no later than Jan. 7, 2002; Engineering building is currently in the design closely related field, and demonstrated poten- Portland, please visit http://www.cse.ogi.edu. however, this is not a hard deadline, as all stage. Interested candidates should send their tial to establish a strong research and teaching To apply, send a brief description of your candidates will be considered to the extent curriculum vitae and the names of four program at NCSU. Candidates are expected to research interests, the names of at least three feasible, until all positions are filled. references to: have both strong experimental and theoretical references and a curriculum vitae with a list of Please send applications to: Operating Systems Recruitment interests in the areas of database systems publications to: C/o Shanta Stroud Committee research and education. We are seeking candi- Chair, Recruiting Committee Faculty Search Department of Computer Science dates who have carried out research in data- Department of Computer Science and Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University base design and organization, database Engineering New York University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 security, networked databases, information OGI School of Science and Engineering at 251 Mercer Street Prospective candidates are encouraged to access and retrieval, data mining and ware- OHSU New York, NY 10012-1185 access the Department’s homepage housing, distributed databases, object-oriented 20000 NW Walker Road New York University is an equal opportu- (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/) and to write to databases, or other related topics. Beaverton, Oregon 97006 nity/affirmative action employer. [email protected] if necessary. NC State The new faculty members will find a lively The email address for inquiries is: is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action and collegial work environment with many [email protected]. North Carolina State University employer. Individuals with disabilities desiring opportunities for collaboration on campus and OGI/OHSU is an Equal Opportunity/ College of Management, Department of accommodations in the application process with local industry. The department is in a Affirmative Action employer. We particularly Business Management should contact the Computer Science period of rapid growth and advancement, and welcome applications from women, minorities, Faculty Positions – Information Department at NCSU at (919) 515-2858. is aggressively positioning itself to be at the and individuals with disabilities. Technology, Information Systems forefront of selected areas in computer science. NC State University invites applications North Carolina State University These new positions have been created to fur- The Ohio State University for positions in The Department of Business Department of Computer Science ther strengthen our ongoing activities in such Department of Computer and Information Management beginning in August 2002. One Computer Networking areas as decision support, online data monitor- Science position will be at the Assistant level, and one The Department of Computer Science at ing, electronic commerce, virtual enterprises, The Department of Computer and position will be at the Associate/Full Professor North Carolina State University seeks an heterogeneous and object-oriented databases, Information Science invites applications for at level. The Department of Business assistant professor in the general area of com- machine learning, intelligent data analysis, least six tenured or tenure-track positions. Management is an interdisciplinary depart- puter networking. Candidates are expected to multiagent systems, intelligent multimedia, Areas of primary interest include, but are not ment housing functions such as supply chain have both strong theoretical and applied inter- distributed computing, scientific visualization, limited to, artificial intelligence (including management, marketing, management, ests in the area of networking research and networking, and human interfaces. speech and language processing, vision, and finance, and information technology. The education. The successful candidate will have We attract research sponsorship from a machine learning), graphics (including visuali- College of Management’s mission emphasizes a PhD in Computer Science or a related field variety of sources, including NSF, DARPA, zation, computer animation, geometric the management of technology, and special and an extensive research record. AFOSR, ONR, NIH, USEPA, NSA, and the modeling and meshing), human-computer emphasis has been given to programs in IT This new position has been created to fur- State of North Carolina. Industrial sources interaction, networking (including mobile and e-commerce. Qualifications include a ther strengthen our activities in advanced net- include IBM, SAS, GlaxoSmithKline, Procter computing and network security/dependability), Ph.D. or DBA in information systems/informa- working research, as well as the interactions of & Gamble, Fujitsu, and Cisco. The candidate software engineering (including component- tion technology and a strong commitment to the Department with the high technology will have access to our state-of-art high per- based software, formal methods, and program- quality teaching, research, and service. industry. Networking is one of the key areas in formance ATM-based network, and the North ming languages), and systems (including Applications will be accepted beginning July the department, and several current faculty Carolina Giga-POP and Internet-2 facilities. operating systems, data-intensive computing, 1, 2001 and will continue until the positions have research programs in networking tech- NCSU, a Doctoral/Research land-grant grid computing, network-based computing, are filled. Interested candidates should send a nologies and applications. Their work is sup- university, is located in Raleigh, a vertex of parallel systems, distributed computing, and copy of their curriculum vitae and three letters ported among others by AFOSR, DARPA, the world-renowned Research Triangle, which scientific computing). of recommendation to: NSA, NSF, MCNC, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, boasts a high concentration of high technol- Appointments at all ranks will be consid- Greg Young, Chair IBM, Nortel, Lucent, Alacatel, and the State ogy companies and research institutions. The ered. Applicants for an assistant professor posi- IT Search Committee of North Carolina. The successful candidate is state of North Carolina is a world center of tion should hold or be completing a Ph.D. in Department of Business Management also expected to play an important educational banking and finance. The Research Triangle computer science or a closely related field, and Box 7229, North Carolina State role within the Master of Science in area was recently recognized as one of the best have a commitment to excellent research and University Computer Networking, offered jointly by the places to live in the U.S. In addition to the quality teaching. Applicants for a senior posi- Raleigh, NC 27695-7229 Departments of Computer Science and historical campus, the department occupies tion should also demonstrate a strong record of North Carolina State University is dedi- Electrical Engineering, and the College of substantial space on NCSU’s new Centennial external funding and impact on their field. cated to equality of opportunity within its Management. This unique educational degree Campus, an innovative collocation of univer- The department maintains active collabo- community. Accordingly, North Carolina reflects both the strength of our networking sity and industrial labs designed to foster close rative relationships with the Ohio State does not practice or condone discrimina- program and the increasing importance of the collaboration. The State of North Carolina Supercomputer Center, Advanced Computing tion in any form against students, employees rapidly growing computer networking industry recently passed a major bond initiative that Center for the Arts and Design, Cognitive or applicants on the basis of race, color, in the State of North Carolina. includes $83 million for a new engineering Science Center, and many other centers and national origin, religion, gender, age or disabil- The Department is in a period of rapid campus on Centennial Campus. A new 90,000 departments in the university. ity. Individuals with disabilities desiring growth and advancement, and is positioning sq. ft. $36 million Computer Science/ To apply, please send a curriculum vita, accommodations in the application process itself to be at the forefront of selected areas in Computer Engineering building is currently in along with a cover letter, by e-mail to should contact: computer science. In addition to funding from the design stage. [email protected] or by Yolanda M. Sanders the above organizations, we attract support Interested candidates should send a cover mail to: College of Management from many other organizations. The candidate letter, curriculum vitae, sample of two papers Chair, Faculty Search Committee North Carolina State University will have access to the department’s and and the names of four references to: Department of Computer and Information Raleigh, NC 27695-7229 University’s state-of-the-art network infra- Database Systems Recruitment Committee Science [email protected] structure consisting of millions of dollars in Department of Computer Science The Ohio State University (919) 515-6939 production equipment and research proto- North Carolina State University 2015 Neil Avenue, DL395 types, including a brand-new $6M five-node, Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 Columbus, OH 43210-1277 16-wavelength WaveStarTM AllMetro 40G Prospective candidates are encouraged to Review of applications will begin immedi- optical network built with equipment donated access the Department’s homepage ately and will continue until the positions are (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/) and to write to Page 16 November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
Professional Opportunities filled. For additional information please see benefits are highly competitive. Special Applications from minorities, women, and past three years has been approximately http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu. departmental and university initiatives are other under-represented groups are especially $4.5 million. The Ohio State University is an Equal available for junior faculty. Candidates should encouraged. Please respond to: Junior candidates are expected to have a Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. send a curriculum vitae, a statement of career The Search Committee for the Dean of Ph.D. in Computer Science/Engineering or Qualified women, minorities, and individuals objectives, and names and contact information the Golisano College of Computing and related field by September 2002, and must with disabilities are encouraged to apply. of at least three references to: Information Sciences demonstrate evidence of potential for publishing Chair, Faculty Search Committee Office of the Provost and developing a successful funded research pro- Panasonic Department of Computer Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology gram. Senior candidates are expected to have an Panasonic is respected around the world Purdue University 12 Lomb Memorial Drive excellent record of publication and funded for innovative electronic and computer prod- West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398 Rochester NY 14623-5604 research as well as international stature and ucts. Innovation begins with the vision and Applications are being accepted now The target date for the new Dean to recognition commensurate with rank. creative thinking of professionals in R&D and will be considered until the positions assume office is July 1, 2002. All applications should include a cover let- facilities like our Princeton, NJ based are filled. Inquiries may be sent to ter, curriculum vitae, and the names of least Panasonic Information and Networking [email protected]. Southern Illinois University, three references (applicants for senior posi- Technologies Laboratory. Our center is Purdue University is an Equal Carbondale tions should have five references). In addition, involved in creating secure, internet-enabled Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Faculty Position in Computer Science all applicants should have letters of reference platforms for the ubiquitously networked Women and minorities are especially encour- Applications are invited for up to two sent by the due date. Address applications to: world. Right now we have the following aged to apply. tenure track faculty positions at the Assistant Chair, Faculty Search Committee opportunity available: Professor or Associate Professor level, starting Department of Computer Science and Operating Systems Scientist Job Code: 2455 Rochester Institute of August 16, 2002. Basic requirements include a Engineering Work towards creating the operating sys- Technology Ph.D. in computer science or related field by 201 Bell Hall, University at Buffalo tems of the future. The ideal candidate must Computer Science Department date of hire, evidence of ongoing and future Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 have experience in real-time operating systems The Computer Science Department research, and teaching competency in a rea- Email: [email protected] architectures for multimedia applications. invites applications for full-time tenure track sonable number of computer science subjects. Due date for applications and letters of ref- Hands-on experience in secure operating positions. The department, part of the newly Applicants with a research specialty in any erence: January 4, 2002. systems and/or microkernels is a plus. IP formed Golisano College of Computing and area of computer science will be considered. The University at Buffalo is New York’s Networking/Telephony Scientist Job Code: 5368 Information Sciences, offers an MS and Associate Professor applicants should have largest and most comprehensive public univer- Conduct research and development on the CSAB-accredited BS degree in Computer substantial teaching and research experience sity. As the second largest city in New York evolution of communication systems, particu- Science. An important goal of the Institute at the Assistant Professor and/or Associate State, Buffalo is the hub of a metropolitan area larly mobile communications systems, towards and the College is to achieve diversity in the Professor level, and should have a solid record with a population over 1.1 million. University all IP networks. It is expected that research student body, faculty, staff, and administra- of publication and external funding. Review of life is enriched by scenic, recreational, and results will lead to patents as well as confer- tion. Applications from minorities, women, completed applications will begin on January cultural opportunities in the city, suburbs, and ence and journal publications. Researchers are and other under-represented groups are espe- 2, 2002, and continue until the position is the neighboring Niagara and Metro Toronto expected to develop prototypes that demon- cially encouraged. Applicants should be pre- filled. Applicants should send a letter of inter- regions. For more information, please visit our strate the practical feasibility of their ideas. pared to participate in a department that est, curriculum vita, and three current letters website, http://www.cse.buffalo.edu. Desirable characteristics include knowledge of emphasizes a strong commitment to teaching of recommendation to: The University at Buffalo is an Equal VoIP, SIP, & SIP extensions. as well as to consistent professional develop- Faculty Search Committee Opportunity Employer/Recruiter. All positions require candidates to have a ment. While a Ph. D. in Computer Science or Department of Computer Science Ph.D in Computer Science or a closely related a related field is preferred, applicants having a Mailcode 4511, Faner 2125 Swarthmore College field, or equivalent experience. Masters degree in C. S., relevant industrial Southern Illinois University Computer Science Program, Swarthmore, In addition to an environment that’s as experience will be considered. Teaching expe- Carbondale IL 62901-4511 PA 19081 innovative as our products, we offer competi- rience is highly desirable. Please submit a let- For more information about the Applications are invited for a tenure-track tive salaries and superior benefits. Please for- ter of interest, a statement of teaching Department of Computer Science, see our web position and a two-year leave replacement ward your resume, with job code and salary philosophy, a current resume and the names of site at http://www.cs.siu.edu. Questions may be position at the Assistant Professor rank to requirement, to: three references to: directed to the Chair of the Faculty Search begin in August 2002. Swarthmore College is Panasonic Technologies Inc. Search Committee c/o Sandy Ferrara Committee, via [email protected]. SIUC is a small, selective, liberal arts college located in 2 Research Way Dept. of Computer Science an AA/EOE. Women and minorities are a suburb 10 miles outside of Philadelphia. The Princeton, NJ 08540 RIT, 102 Memorial Drive encouraged to apply. computer science program offers majors and E-mail: [email protected] Rochester, NY 14623-5608 minors in computer science at the undergradu- We are committed to creating a diverse email: hiring @cs.rit.edu Stanford University ate level. We have a CS laboratory of Sun work environment and proud to be an equal See a more complete description at Departments of Radiology and Computer workstations, a robot/operating-systems lab, opportunity employer (m/f/d/v). Pre-employ- http://www.cs.rit.edu/~csdept/search Science and access to a campus network of ment drug testing is required. Due to the high Macintoshes and PCs. Both a Sun and Mac or volume of response, we will only be able to Faculty Opening Rochester Institute of Stanford University’s Departments of PC will be provided in the office of the suc- respond to candidates of interest. All candi- Technology cessful applicant. Applicants should have some dates must have valid authorization to work in Radiology and Computer Science invite appli- College of Computing and Information cations for a tenure-track faculty position at teaching experience and be comfortable teach- the U.S. PINTL is an R&D laboratory of ing a wide range of courses at the introductory Panasonic Technologies, Inc. Sciences the Assistant Professor level from candidates Dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College with expertise in the areas of medical image and intermediate undergraduate level. Fluency (www.pintl.research.panasonic.com) in C, Scheme and one of C++ or Java is of Computing and Information Sciences understanding (including image segmentation and interpretation), image-guided surgery, desired. Some preference will be shown to Pomona College Rochester Institute of Technology is applicants who can involve undergraduate stu- searching for an exceptional individual to and/or human-computer interactions. We are Department of Computer Science especially interested in applicants who would dents in their research. For the tenure-track Tenure-track assistant professorship, begin- become the first Dean of the B. Thomas position an earned Ph.D. in CS by September Golisano College of Computing and apply their expertise in these areas to the com- ning July, 2002. Candidates at more senior puter-aided detection of disease from radiolog- 2002 is desired but ABD candidates will be levels will be considered. Requirements: Ph.D. Information Sciences (GCCIS). considered. We will consider all subareas of RIT is a privately endowed, coeducational, ical images and the planning of surgical in computer science, broad background in procedures. Higher priority will be given to CS. Areas of special interest are: computer science, excellence in teaching a non-sectarian, technological university located Communications and Networking, on a 1300-acre campus in suburban Rochester, the overall innovation and promise of the can- wide range of courses. Should be able to teach didate’s work than to any specific area. An Bioinformatics (from the CS side), Parallel an ethnically diverse student body, have a New York. The Institute has over 14,300 stu- Programming, and Programming Languages dents enrolled in more than 200 programs earned Ph.D. in Computer Science or a strong independent research agenda, and be related field, evidence of the ability to pursue and Compilers. A resume and three letters of excited about directing student research. housed in its eight colleges. GCCIS has reference should be sent to Charles F. approximately 70 full-time faculty, 2000 a research program and a commitment to Application includes: cv; 3 or more letters teaching are required. The successful candi- Kelemen at the above address. At least two of of recommendation, at least one of which undergraduate students, and more than 650 the letters should speak to the candidate’s full-time and part-time graduate students in date will be expected to teach courses in both evaluates teaching; a statement of teaching departments, secure independent research teaching ability. Swarthmore College is an philosophy; and a description, written for the three departments: Computer Science, Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications Information Technology, and Software funding, and build and lead a team of graduate non-specialist, of research accomplishments students in Ph.D. research. from women and members of minority groups and plans. Applications completed by January 7, Engineering. Cooperative education is a are encouraged. We expect to begin interview- mandatory component of all GCCIS under- The appointment will be made at the level 2002, will receive full consideration. of an Assistant Professor. The position is avail- ing in late January 2002. Applications will be Pomona College is an equal opportunity graduate programs; the Computer Science pro- accepted until the positions are filled. gram is ABET accredited and the Software able beginning Spring 2002. Further informa- employer and especially invites applications tion about the Radiology and Computer from women and members of under- Engineering program will seek accreditation this year. The newest college of RIT, GCCIS’s Science Departments can be found at Texas A&M University represented groups. http://www-radiology.stanford.edu/ and Department of Computer Science Further information from three academic departments will be housed in a new $17 million building, with a second http://www-cs.stanford.edu, respectively. Faculty Search http://www.cs.pomona.edu Applications should include a curriculum Texas A&M University has long enjoyed [email protected]. $1.5 million building for its applied research arm, the IT Lab. vita, statements of research and teaching national leadership status in engineering edu- The Dean is the chief academic, fiscal, and interests and the names of at least four refer- cation. Today, the Dwight Look College of Purdue University administrative officer, and has a key role in ences. The application should be sent to: Engineering is one of the largest and best Department of Computer Sciences securing funds for the college’s initiatives. The Professor Oussama Khatib endowed in the nation, and it ranks among Tenure-Track Positions Dean reports to the Provost and Vice- Search Committee Co-Chair the top institutions in every significant The Department of Computer Sciences at President for Academic Affairs, manages an c/o Laura Kenny-Carlson national poll. Purdue University invites applications for operating budget of over $12.5 million, and is Computer Science Department The Department of Computer Science is tenure-track positions beginning August 2002. the primary representative of the college Stanford University, Gates 2B one of the fastest-developing departments in Positions are available at the assistant profes- within RIT and to alumni, industry, govern- Stanford, CA 94305-9025 the College. In recent years, it has built a sor level; senior positions will be considered ment, foundations, and the public at large. We The review of applications will begin on strong national reputation based on the qual- for highly qualified applicants. Applications are seeking an outstanding individual who will October 15, 2001, but applications will be ity of its faculty and programs. The from outstanding candidates in all areas of work with all the college’s constituencies to accepted until the position is filled. Stanford Department offers B.S., Master’s and Ph. D. computer science will be considered. Areas of craft and articulate a strategic vision that university is an equal opportunity employer degrees in Computer Science and Computer particular interest include security, networking builds on the complementary but distinctive and welcomes nominations of women and Engineering. Currently we have 28 tenured and distributed systems, scientific computing, characteristics of the three academic depart- minority group members as well as applica- and tenure track faculty, including five NSF and software engineering. ments and the IT Lab. The successful candi- tions from them. PYI/NYI/CAREER award recipients. Current The Department of Computer Sciences date must value and maintain RIT’s emphasis areas of research emphasis include real-time offers a stimulating and nurturing academic on undergraduate education, while leading University at Buffalo, The State systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, environment. Thirty-five faculty members GCCIS in key initiatives such as undergradu- University of New York machine learning, bioinformatics, computer- have research programs in analysis of algo- ate retention, enhanced professional graduate Faculty Positions in Computer Science aided design, computer engineering, hard- rithms, bioinformatics, compilers, databases, programs, applied research, and a possible and Engineering ware/software co-design, software engineering, distributed and parallel computing, geometric interdisciplinary doctoral program. The Dean The Department of Computer Science and mobile computing, digital libraries, computer- modeling and scientific visualization, graphics, must work effectively with all units at RIT, Engineering (CSE) has faculty openings at all human interaction, computational science, information security, networking and operat- emphasizing multidisciplinary cooperation levels. Candidates in all areas of CSE will be theoretical computer science, quantum com- ing systems, programming languages, scientific among the college’s departments and other considered, but we especially solicit applicants puting, distributed systems and parallel com- computing, and software engineering. The academic programs and research centers in the systems and applied areas, including puting. More information is available on the department implements a strategic plan for at RIT. high-performance computing, multimedia, Web at http://www.cs.tamu.edu. future growth which is strongly supported by Applications and nominations will be databases, networks, and VLSI. Candidates should have a Ph. D. in the higher administration. This plan includes accepted from qualified individuals who have CSE faculty are affiliated with the Center Computer Science or Computer Engineering a new building expected to be operational a Ph.D. in a related discipline, have demon- for Computational Research, a leading aca- or a closely related field, a strong commitment in 2004 to accommodate the significant strated excellence in teaching, academic demic supercomputing center in the U. S., the to both research and teaching, and demon- growth in faculty size. Further information administration, and interaction with govern- Center of Excellence in Document Analysis strated ability to perform research and acquire about the department is available at ment and industry, and have a record of secur- and Recognition, the National Center for external funding appropriate to the rank being http://www.cs.purdue.edu. ing funding to support academic programs. Geographic Information and Analysis, and sought. The department welcomes applications Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Industrial experience is highly desirable. An Center for Cognitive Science. The faculty from academic couples seeking to co-locate. Computer Science, or a closely related disci- important goal of the Institute and the include AAAI, ACM, and IEEE Fellows as Applications from minority and women candi- pline, and should be committed to excellence College is to achieve diversity in the student well as NSF Career and ITR awardees. The dates are especially encouraged. Texas A&M in teaching and have demonstrated strong body, faculty, staff, and administration. average annual research expenditure over the University is an affirmative action/equal potential for excellence in research. Salary and (cont’d) Page 17 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Professional Opportunities opportunity employer committed to diversity. Embedded Systems: Hardware and software Qualified applicants should send a curricu- track or tenured positions in the following Applicants should send a statement of development of distributed embedded systems, lum vita and the names and addresses of three research areas: research and teaching interest, a complete with focus on adaptive, dependable and real- references to: A. Human Computer Interaction resume, and have at least three references send time systems; Resource-constrained and scala- Faculty Recruiting B. Software Development letters of recommendation by email to ble embbeded systems; Communication Department of Computer and Information C. Informatics in Biology and Medicine [email protected] or by hard copy to: protocols (TCP/IP, wireless, fieldbuses); Sciences D. Cryptography Faculty Search Committee Internet and application software design, The University of Alabama at Birmingham E. Networked Embedded Systems F. Department of Computer Science Modeling and performance analysis of distrib- CH 115A, 1530 3rd Avenue South Ubiquitous Computing Texas A&M University uted embedded applications; Fault-tolerance, Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 Positions are at the rank of assistant pro- College Station, TX 77843-3112. security, and safety-critical applications. or by email to [email protected]. fessor, but exceptional candidates at all ranks Applications will be accepted until the Communication Protocols: Applications will be considered as they are will be considered. ICS expects to grow sub- positions are filled. Communication infrastructure, distributed received until the position is filled. The stantially over the next decade and will be real-time systems and intelligent sensor net- University of Alabama at Birmingham is an recruiting new faculty each year. Thus, out- Texas A&M University works; Modeling and analysis of complex equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. standing candidates in other research areas are Department of Computer Science industrial (mostly embedded) distributed encouraged to contact us. Dwight Look College of Engineering applications Communication Protocols with The University of Arizona UCI is targeted as a growth campus for the College of Engineering Endowed Chair in emphasis on those commonly used in building Department of Computer Science University of California. It is the youngest of Computer Science automation and aerospace applications http://www.cs.arizona.edu the existing UC campuses, yet ranked 10th Texas A&M University invites nomina- (including knowledge on wireless, powerline Applications are invited for the position of among public universities. The Department of tions and applications for the College of carrier, and wired protocols) Object-oriented Lecturer or Senior Lecturer beginning August Information and Computer Science (ICS) was Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer middleware for distributed real-time applications. 2002. Lecturer candidates must hold a gradu- founded in 1968 in recognition of the emerg- Science, whose endowment of $4.3M is among Wireless Systems: Engineer – we are seek- ate degree in computer science or closely ing importance of computing. ICS is one of the largest in the nation. ing professionals in this area. Areas of interest related field, have a strong commitment to nine academic units at UC Irvine; as a free- We are looking for an internationally rec- include, but are not limited to: RF system excellence in teaching, and must have sub- standing department, it functions as a school. ognized scholar who has the vision, enthusi- modeling, design and validation RF stantial experience teaching computer science With more than 40 faculty members, 1400 asm, motivation, and capability to build and Communications channel modeling and at the university level. Compensation is com- undergraduates and 200 graduate students, ICS guide a flourishing research group. We are analysis Wireless networks and communica- petitive, with rank and salary dependent on is the largest computing program within the interested in candidates having synergistic tion protocols Performance modeling and experience and qualifications. This is a non- University of California system as well as the interests with our existing areas of research analysis of wireless networks Power Control in tenured position, with appointments for fixed fastest-growing major at UC Irvine. strength as well as in candidates who will wireless computer systems Physics-based mod- terms of three years; reappointment is possible ICS’s mission is to lead the innovation of broaden and expand our current programs. We eling RF components specification and testing subject to review. Duties of this position new information and computing technology welcome applications from candidates with The successful candidates will be responsi- include teaching undergraduate computer sci- and study its economic, commercial, and highly innovative research agendas and/or ble for conducting research including genera- ence courses in systems software areas, social significance while producing an edu- who cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. tion of concepts, assessing alternative machine organization and architecture, operat- cated workforce to serve as an economic The Department, with the strong backing of solutions, and reducing the best concepts to ing systems, data structures and programming engine for the advancement of technology. the College and University, is committed to practice. Additionally responsible for assisting languages. Duties also include academic ICS has excellent faculty, innovative providing the resources needed to enable the program planning, technology transfer, and advising of students, service on department programs, high quality students and outstand- Chair to quickly establish a vibrant, interna- building group capability by assisting recruit- committees involved in undergraduate life, ing graduates as well as strong relationships tionally recognized research presence at Texas ing and mentoring. Must be capable of and development of new curriculum and new with high tech industry. For a more detailed A&M. The Department has significant working independently, contributing as a instructional laboratories. Applicants must description of ICS and UC Irvine, see uncommitted resources, including several fac- member of a multidisciplinary team, and send a curriculum vita and the names of at http://www.uci.edu and http://www.ics.uci.edu. ulty positions, that are available for this pur- leading projects. least three references to: Electronic application instructions (highly pose. The University’s recently completed Qualifications: MS in Electrical or Faculty Recruiting Committee preferred) can be found at: Vision 2020 strategic plan includes an empha- Computer Engineering, or related field and 3 Department of Computer Science http://www.ics.uci.edu/about/jobs sis on Information Technology and on multi- or more years of experience in one or more of The University of Arizona For those submitting paper application, a disciplinary initiatives such as the areas noted above. Excellent communica- PO BOX 210077 cover letter indicating the area (A-F) of pri- Bioinformatics; through the latter, the tion skills are required. The successful candi- Tucson, AZ 85721-0077 mary research, a CV, three recent publications department has been awarded multiple posi- date will have a documented record of A majority of the references should be able and letters from three to five references should tions split between Computer Science and technical achievement as evidenced by publi- to comment directly upon the candidate’s be sent to: other departments in the Life Sciences. cations, patents, and/or fielded systems. teaching experience and abilities. We will Department of Information and Computer Texas A&M has long enjoyed national Preferred Qualifications: The preferred start the review of applications on January 15, Science leadership status in engineering education. candidates will have a Ph.D. in Computer 2002, and will continue to consider applicants University of California, Irvine Today, the Dwight Look College of Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical until the position is filled, subject to availabil- Irvine, CA 92697-3425 Engineering is one of the largest and best Engineering or related field and 5 or more ity of funds. Attention: Peggy Munhall endowed in the nation, and it ranks among years of experience with a strong research The University of Arizona is an EEO/AA Application screening will begin immedi- the top institutions in every significant focus in areas including computer and commu- employer - M/W/D/V. ately upon receipt of curriculum vitae. national poll, including #11 in the recent US nication architectures, communication proto- Maximum consideration will be given to News and World report ranking. cols and embedded hardware and software University of California, Davis applications received by December 7, 2001. The Department of Computer Science is design methods, modeling and performance Department of Computer Science The University of California, Irvine, is an analysis of communication networks, RF sys- Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to one of the fastest-developing departments in Faculty Positions the College. In recent years, it has built a tem modeling including physics based and excellence through diversity. wireless networks and communications The Department of Computer Science, at strong national reputation based on the qual- the University of California, Davis, invites ity of its faculty and programs. The depart- system design. University of California, Los Strong applied mathematical abilities, applications for several tenure-track faculty ment offers B.S., Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in positions. The department is seeking candi- Angeles computer science and, jointly with the knowledge of control systems, computer pro- Department of Computer Science gramming, and significant evidence of innova- dates at all levels. At the senior level, we Department of Electrical Engineering, in com- invite applications from candidates with truly The Department of Computer Science in puter engineering. The department has 28 tion-driven business success are additional the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and preferred skills. Candidates with a wide and distinguished records in research, teaching, tenured or tenure-track faculty, including five and leadership; at the junior level, we invite Applied Science at the University of NSF PYI/CAREER award recipients. More diverse range of experiences, multidisciplinary California, Los Angeles, invites applications team participation, and innovation are applications from candidates with demon- information is available at strated research excellence and a commitment for tenure-track positions in all areas of http://www.cs.tamu.edu. highly valued. Computer Science and Computer Engineering. In addition the preferred qualifications to excellence in teaching. The department Letters of application should include a full welcomes applications from candidates in Applications are also strongly encouraged from curriculum vitae and the names and addresses include: experience on distributed computing, distinguished candidates at senior levels. specially with distributed object computing, areas that emphasize innovative applications of at least five references. Applications will be in computer science. It has a particular inter- The UCLA Campus administration is accepted until the position is filled; screening component-based development of real-time committed to significant growth in the faculty embedded systems, fault-tolerant. est in the areas of Computer Systems (includ- will begin immediately. Nominations or appli- ing operating systems, compilers, architecture, of Computer Science Department, with a pro- cations should be sent to: Potential candidates should send an jection of 3-4 new faculty members per year email to: programming languages, and software engi- Endowed Chair Search Committee neering), Networks, Computational Biology, for the next five years. Department of Computer Science [email protected], reference code: Quality is our key criterion for applicant Embedded -NET-2625-6403 and Information Systems. We further encour- Texas A&M University age applicants whose research can both have selection. Applicants should have a strong College Station, TX 77843-3112 Communications- NET-2625-6572 commitment to both research and teaching Wireless – NET-2625-6571. impact in these core areas and leverage our e-mail: [email protected] extensive programs in graphics/visualization and an outstanding record of research for their Applications from minority and women and security. level. We seek applicants in any mainstream candidates are especially encouraged. Texas The University of Alabama at The Computer Science Department cur- area of Computer Science and Computer A&M University is an affirmative action/ Birmingham (UAB) rently has 24 faculty members, covering all Engineering, but we particularly welcome equal opportunity employer committed to Department of Computer and Information major areas of computer science. It is experi- those with a strength in systems, compilers, diversity. The department welcomes Sciences encing a period of strong growth in the size of theory, and in interdisciplinary areas such as applications from academic couples seeking Assistant/Associate Professor its faculty and expects to continue this trend. bioinformatics and electronic commerce. to co-locate. The Computer and Information Sciences The Davis campus is the third largest in the Interested applicants should e-mail their Department of the University of Alabama at University of California system. UC Davis CV and cover letter addressed to: Professor United Technologies Research Birmingham (UAB) invites applications from ranks among the nation’s top 20 universities Milos Ercegovac, Chair, in two separate PDF Center all areas of computer science for two tenure- in research funding. files to [email protected]. Please indicate field Associate/Senior Research Engineer track faculty positions at the assistant or asso- Davis is a pleasant, family-oriented com- of interest. A list of four references with com- plete addresses, telephone numbers, and at UTRC ciate professor level. Applicants should have a munity in a college town setting with excel- Ph.D. in computer science or a closely related lent public schools and a mild climate. Davis e-mail addresses should also be submitted The Embedded Information Devices in a text file. Group of the Systems and Networks field, a strong interest in and a commitment to is ideally located for many professional, cul- teaching and research, and promise for secur- tural and recreational activities. It is just 15 The University of California is an Equal Department at the United Technologies Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. Research Center, East Hartford, Connecticut, ing external research funding. A goal of the miles from California’s capital city of invites qualified individuals to apply for multi- Department is to develop a research team that Sacramento and is within easy driving dis- ple open positions in the area of communica- builds on our existing academic strengths in tance of the Silicon Valley, Berkeley, San University of California, Riverside tion protocols, embedded systems. bioinformatics and object-oriented distributed Francisco, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of United Technologies Research Center computing. Applicants should have research the Pacific Coast areas. Engineering (UTRC) is an internationally recognized interests in one or both of these areas and a These positions require a Ph.D. or equiva- Faculty Positions in Computer Science & R&D organization that conducts research demonstrated record of accomplishments in a lent. The positions are open until filled, but Engineering across a broad range of technology areas to specialization such as distributed databases, for full consideration, applicants should apply The University of California, Riverside drive and support a corporate-wide “impact component-based software, client-server by January 14, 2002. invites applications for tenure-track or tenured through innovation” agenda. The operating computing and real-time and embedded UC Davis is responsive to the concerns of faculty positions in the Department of units of United Technologies Corporation software systems. dual career couples and offers a Partner Computer Science and Engineering for the (UTC) include Pratt & Whitney (aircraft The Department of Computer and Opportunity Program. UC Davis is an affirma- 2002-2003 academic year. Applicants must engines and gas turbines for power genera- Information Sciences is located in the School tive action/equal opportunity employer. have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or in a tion), Sikorsky (helicopters), Otis (elevators), of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Please consult our web page closely related field. Systems specialties Carrier (heating and air conditioning), offers B. S., M. S., and Ph.D. degrees. UAB (http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/employ) for addi- such as architecture, compilers, embedded Hamilton-Sundstrand (aerospace products) ranks among the top public institutions in the tional information on the particular areas of systems, VLSI, networking, security, and International Fuel Cells (fuel cell power country in federal research and development interest and application instructions. databases, operating systems, computer plants). The mission of UTRC is to create support, attracting more than $200-million in graphics, and software engineering, as opportunities for organic growth of UTC external funds and is ranked as a Carnegie University of California, Irvine well as the area of computational biology are through innovation of new products and Doctoral Research Extensive University. The Department of Information and Computer of particular interest, but applications are wel- processes. UTRC partners with the best UAB Medical Center is recognized as one of Science come in all areas of Computer Science. Senior research organizations in the world and pro- the nation’s leading medical research institu- The Department of Information and candidates must have an exceptional research vides an opportunity for collaboration among tions and is a source of collaboration in bioin- Computer Science at the University of and teaching record. Junior candidates must academic and business unit partners. formatics. For more information on the California Irvine (UCI) show outstanding research and teaching Expertise in sought in the following areas: department, university and city, see our web http://www.ics.uci.edu/ has several tenure- potential. Salary will be competitive, and page at www.cis.uab.edu. Page 18 November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
Professional Opportunities commensurate with appointment rank University of California, San interaction with industry. The School of is part of the Army Research Labs and qualifications. Diego Supercomputer Center Engineering is ranked 26th among public uni- Collaborative Technology Alliance, and an UC Riverside is the fastest-growing (SDSC) versities in research expenditures and has NSF CISE Research Infrastructure Grant for member of the nine-campus University of As a national leader in computational sci- recently established 17 new endowed parallel and distributed computing. A major California System, widely regarded as the most ence and engineering, the San Diego chairs/named professorships. Several are avail- UDel biotechnology initiative distinguished system of public higher educa- Supercomputer Center (SDSC) houses able to the ECE Department. In addition, the (http://www.dbi.udel.edu) offers opportunities tion in the United States. The CSE depart- advanced computing and networking resources University has approved construction of a for collaborative research in bioinformatics. ment has now grown rapidly to 21 full-time and conducts research in computing technolo- new, 100,000 sq. ft. Information Technology The University of Delaware is centrally faculty, and expects to grow to about 40 over gies and computational sciences such as biol- building to be completed in December 2002 to located between Philadelphia and Baltimore, the next six years. The Campus- and College- ogy, chemistry, and environmental science. house the ECE and CSE departments. This with major government and industrial labs wide expansion programs include a new state- SDSC’s projects are as diverse as the indi- construction is part of UConn 2000, an ongo- nearby. Considerable information about the of-the-art building soon to house the CSE and viduals who comprise our staff, and we main- ing $1 billion infrastructure initiative. The Department is available at EE departments. Annual research expenditures tain an entrepreneurial environment where University is located in Eastern Connecticut http://www.cis.udel.edu. in the College are close to $300K/year per everyone has a say. SDSC is the leading-edge with convenient access to major airports and To apply, please mail a curriculum vitae faculty. The CSE department offers the B.S., site for data-intensive computing, the the metropolitan areas of Hartford, Boston, to: M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. More information is National Partnership for Advanced and New York. Dr. Errol Lloyd available at http://www.cs.ucr.edu. Computational Infrastructure and home to Send application or nomination letter, Chair of the Faculty Search Committee The city of Riverside, located about 60 many other exciting research projects includ- resume, and the names of three references to: Department of Computer and Information miles away from Los Angeles, offers easy access ing the Protein Data Bank, the Cooperative Dr. John Enderle, Chair of ECE Sciences to mountains, Pacific Ocean beaches, cultural Association for Internet Data Analysis, many Computer Engineering Faculty Search University of Delaware activities, shopping, and other attractions. digital library and digital archive projects and Committee Newark, DE 19716 Applications and inquiries should be sent to: now a Distributed Terascale Facility. ECE Department, University of In addition, candidates should have three Chair, Faculty Search Committee Overlooking the blue waters of the Pacific Connecticut confidential letters of reference sent directly to Department of Computer Science and Ocean, the campus at UC San Diego offers 260 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2157 either (but not both) the above address or Engineering one of the most beautiful working environ- Storrs, CT 06269-2157 [email protected]. Applications will be University of California ments you could imagine. Contact us to see Phone: 860-486-5521 accepted until the positions are filled; those Riverside, CA 92521-0304 how you could benefit by joining the Fax: 860-486-2447 received by February 1, 2002 are assured full (909)-787-5639 or by “employer of choice of San Diego”… and con- email: [email protected] consideration. Qualified minority group mem- e-mail to: [email protected] tinue to enjoy a more balanced, productive life URL: http://www.ee.uconn.edu bers and women are encouraged to apply. Applications must include curriculum while enhancing your career. The review of applications will proceed on The University of Delaware is an equal vitae, list of publications, a statement of We are actively seeking applicants in the their arrival. The expected starting date is opportunity employer. research and teaching objectives, and names following and other areas of information and August 2002 or as soon as possible. The search and addresses of four references (junior candi- computing technology: will continue until the positions are filled. The University of the District of dates may have reference letters mailed Associate Director for Scientific University of Connecticut is an Equal Columbia directly to the department). Formal review of Computing; Associate Director for Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. School of Engineering and Applied applications begins January 18, 2002, but Networking and Computer Security; Sciences positions will remain open until filled. Early Distributed Computing Specialists; University of Connecticut Faculty Positions (Announcement Number applications are encouraged. The University Scientific/Biomedical Programmers; Network Senior Faculty Position in Computer 01-42) of California, Riverside is an Equal- Researchers/Engineers; Data Warehouse Science and Engineering Opportunity, Affirmative-Action Employer. The Department of Computer Science Specialists; High Performance Computing The University of Connecticut invites seeks applications for Assistant Professor Analyst/Training Coordinator; Technical nominations and applications with strong positions and above; rank is based on qualifi- University of California at San Managers; System Administrators; Web leadership qualities for a senior faculty posi- cations and experience. Duties include teach- Diego Developers/Engineers; Java and Perl tion in computer science and engineering. ing and laboratory instruction in Computer Department of Computer Science and Programmers; Software Engineers; Chief This position offers an excellent opportunity Science and related programs. Additional Engineering Engineers; Technical Writers/Editors; Scientists. for the creation of a nationally recognized and duties include developing proposals for fund- Tenured and Tenure-track Positions Michael Dean Galvin cutting-edge program emphasizing engineering ing in support of the instructional mission and The Department of Computer Science and Outreach Recruitment, San Diego applications of information technology. The research, as well as involvement in student Engineering has several tenured and tenure- Supercomputer Center focus and direction of the program will clearly recruitment and advising. track faculty positions open for Fall, 2002. We University of California, San Diego be influenced by the strength, preference and Qualifications required are a Ph.D or ter- invite applications at all levels in all areas of 9500 Gilman Drive leadership of the applicant. The School of minal degree in Computer Science, or closely computer science and computer engineering. La Jolla, CA 92093 Engineering enjoys a synergistic relationship related engineering discipline. Preferred spe- Areas of particular interest include computa- phone: 858-822-3695 with broad industrial and research communi- cialties are networks, operating systems, artifi- tional molecular biology and bioinformatics, fax: 858-822-3355 ties. It has already obtained an initial funding cial intelligence, content processing, embedded Internet technologies, embedded systems, dis- Please apply directly to: [email protected] of $750,000 from GE Foundation’s generous software development and graphics. Breadth in tributed systems, networks, databases, software www.sdsc.edu donation for the support of this newly the field is of prime importance. Experience engineering, artificial intelligence, computer created position. with ABET/CSAB accreditation, student graphics and visualization, security, computer University of California, Santa The Computer Science and Engineering recruitment and retention and demonstrated architecture, algorithms, programming Cruz Department has strong research and education efficiency in curriculum development is a plus. languages as well as storage systems and net- Baskin School of Engineering programs in areas including distributed com- UDC is located in the northwest section of works. However, excellent candidates in all Seeks qualified applicants for faculty puting, networks, intelligent systems, agent- Washington, DC, surrounded by embassies areas will be seriously considered. positions in: based computing, parallel algorithms, and historic Rock Creek Park. It is the only The department is in a period of exciting Computer Engineering complexity theory, data security, cryptography, urban land-grant university in the nation and growth and has attracted extraordinary faculty Computer Science geometric modeling, databases, computational an HBCU member. The position is open until in the past few years. It has excellent research Electrical Engineering biology, performance modeling and human- filled. Please submit a curriculum vitae, under- programs in computer science and computer Positions available at the Assistant, centered computing. The CSE faculty are graduate and graduate transcripts and three engineering as well as a strong interdiscipli- Associate and Full Professor levels. funded by NSF, AFOSR, NIH, DARPA, letters of recommendation to: nary research program in computational biol- For complete information on all positions, MITRE, and other industrial and government Ms. Isabelle McMillian ogy and bioinformatics. It plays a leading role see http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/events/jobs agencies. The selected candidate will enjoy University of the District of Columbia in the newly formed California Institute for Fax: 831-459-4829 collaboration with highly qualified and moti- Office of Personnel Management Telecommunications and Information UCSC is an EEO/AA/IRCA Employer vated faculty members in the department Building 38, Suite 301 Technology, the San Diego Supercomputer and in the School of Engineering for the 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW Center, and has close ties to the Center University of Connecticut program development. Washington, DC 20008 The University of Connecticut, a land for Wireless Communications. For more Computer Engineering Faculty Search UDC is an equal opportunity employer grant university and the State’s flagship public information, please consult our web page Electrical & Computer Engineering and does not discriminate on the basis of dis- http://www-cse.ucsd.edu. university, is one of only two public universi- Department ability (P.L. 93-122). The department is looking for applicants ties in New England designated a Carnegie with outstanding research credentials. The Department of Electrical & Computer Foundation Research I institution. The Engineering (ECE) at the University of University of Florida Successful applicants are expected to lead a University is rated as the number one public Department of Computer and Information Connecticut invites nominations and applica- university in New England by U.S. News & vigorous research program and to have a Science and Engineering strong commitment to teaching. A Ph.D. in tions to fill two tenure track faculty positions World Report. The University was founded in in Computer Engineering at the assistant or 1881 and is undergoing a remarkable physical Lecturer Positions computer science or a related area is preferred. Applications are invited for multiple lec- Salary and rank will be commensurate with associate professor level. Candidates with transformation thanks to a $1 billion, 10-year research interests in computer architecture, capital initiative aimed at rebuilding the cam- turer positions in the Computer and qualifications in conformance with University Information Science and Engineering of California policies. hardware-software co-design, computer net- pus to meet the demands and opportunities of works, digital system design and testing, real- the 21st century. Department at the University of Florida, Lecturer Positions time and embedded systems, and fault tolerant Gainesville. Lecturer candidates must hold a The department invites applications for Please send applications and nominations to: and re-configurable computing are sought. Professor T.C. Ting, Chair graduate degree in computer science, computer part-time and full-time lecturer positions in all Necessary qualifications include an earned engineering, or a closely related field. areas of computer science and computer engi- Senior Faculty Search Committee doctorate in Electrical Engineering or Department of Computer Science and Candidates should have a strong commitment neering. Demonstrated excellence in teaching Computer Engineering, a strong commitment to excellence in teaching, and must have is a requirement. Appointments may be made Engineering to effective teaching including laboratory Unit 3155, University of Connecticut experience teaching computer science at the for part time or full time, for one quarter, two development, outstanding scholarly research university level. quarters, or for the full academic year, with a 191 Auditorium Road achievement, and potential to attract external Storrs, CT 06269-3155 The Department of CISE currently has a possibility of renewal. In particular, we also funding for research. Applicants with excep- faculty of 29 and a student body of 320 gradu- invite applications from experienced instruc- e-mail: [email protected] tional credentials may be considered for phone: (860) 486-3784; ate and 1500 undergraduate students. The tors for a possible senior full-time Lecturer named young endowed professorship with an Department encompasses a wide range of position with teaching and administrative fax: (860) 486-4817 endowment of $500,000. The University of Connecticut is an research areas including high performance responsibilities, with the potential of Security The ECE Department is staffed with 17 computing, database systems, computer vision, of Employment, for which a Ph.D. degree is Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity faculty members, and has full-time enrollments Employer. (Search #01A241) computer graphics, and simulation, computer strongly desirable. of 110 undergraduates and 90 graduate stu- networks and security, distributed and real- We encourage candidates to send applica- dents. The faculty is internationally renowned University of Delaware time systems, and software engineering. tions as soon as possible. Faculty applications Applicants for these positions must send a with 6 IEEE Fellows, two Editors-in-Chief of Department of Computer and Information received by January 7, 2002, will be given full IEEE Transactions, and more than 10 other curriculum vitae and at least three letters of consideration. Applications for lecturer posi- Editorial positions. Departmental research Sciences recommendation to: tions are considered throughout the year. activities attract over $4 million in annual Applications are invited for multiple Chair, Faculty Search Committee Please send a letter of interest, curriculum funding, are broad in nature, and encompass tenure track Assistant Professor positions to c/o Robyn Edwards vitae including research interests and plans, biomedical engineering, computer engineer- begin Fall 2002. Outstanding candidates for Dept. of CISE 301 CSE, PO Box 116120 the names and email addresses of at least four ing, communications, digital signal and image senior level positions are also encouraged to Univ. of Florida references to the Recruiting Chair processing, control and estimation theory, apply. Of primary interest are candidates Gainesville, Fl. 32611 ([email protected]), and cite the position manufacturing, microelectronics, optoelec- whose research is in systems, software engi- email: [email protected] reference number 3-905. Email submission tronics, photonics, and systems engineering. In neering, graphics, visualization, vision, speech Tel: 352-392-1212 with PDF, Word or text attachments is pre- the past three years, the Department has grad- processing, data mining, databases, bioinfor- Application deadline is October 30, ferred. Hard copy can be sent to: uated an average of 12 Ph.D. students per year. matics, or security. Applicants should hold a 2001. If initial search does not result in a Recruiting Chair The Department has extensive, well- Ph.D. or its equivalent, and should be commit- successful applicant pool, rolling application Dept of Computer Science and equipped labs for graduate and undergraduate ted to excellence in research and teaching. deadlines will be November 30, 2001 and Engineering-0114 teaching and research including a state of the The normal teaching load is three courses February 15, 2002. University of California, San Diego art VLSI design laboratory and a class 100 per year. The University of Florida is an Affirmative La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 clean room. It maintains strong ties to inter- The Department has 16 tenure-track and 3 Action Employer and women and minorities UCSD is an Equal disciplinary research centers for Material research faculty members, with a substantial are encouraged to apply. For more information Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer; Science, Photonics, Computer Applications, portion of our 100 graduate students pursuing about the department and positions, please women and minority applicants, veterans Transportation, and Electrical Insulation, the Ph.D. We have significant external fund- visit http://www.cise.ufl.edu and persons with disabilities are encouraged which provide facilities and services for faculty ing, including NSF Career Awards, a $2.2M to apply. and graduate student research and extensive grant in Communications and Networks that Page 19 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Professional Opportunities The University of Georgia University of Louisiana at graduate teaching, the establishment of a pro- ments between the Department and the Department of Computer Science Lafayette gram of independent or collaborative research Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, The The Department of Computer Science at The Center for Advanced Computer with support from external funding agencies, Department of Electrical Engineering, and the The University of Georgia invites applications Studies and involvement of graduate/undergraduate Institute for Systems Research. for tenure-track positions at all levels to begin Faculty Positions; Graduate Fellowships students through dissertations, theses, and/or Candidates who are interested should send Fall of 2002. Successful applicants must be Candidates with a strong research record project work. curriculum vitae, research summary, and the committed to excellence in both research and and an earned doctorate in computer science The University of Maine is the primary names of at least four references (3) emphasiz- teaching. or computer engineering are invited to apply graduate institution in the State of Maine. ing research and (1) emphasizing teaching to: One or two positions will be dedicated to a for tenure track faculty positions at both the The Department of Computer Science offers Attention: Faculty Recruiting Committee Georgia strategic initiative (Yamacraw), assistant and associate professor levels starting BA, BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer University of Maryland at College Park designed to make Georgia a world leader in August 14, 2002 (starting spring, 2002 is also Science. Current research areas of our depart- Department of Computer Science the design of broadband communications sys- available). Target areas include computer net- ment include algorithms, artificial intelli- College Park, Maryland 20742-3255 tems, devices and chips. Relevant research works, communications, programming lan- gence, agents, software engineering and reuse, At the time they apply, candidates must areas include networking, operating systems, guages, software engineering, and information combinatorics, crisis management, learning request their references to send written recom- distributed systems, mobile computing, archi- and database management systems. environments, networking, and finite-element mendations. Failure to do so will delay the tecture, or programming languages and com- Consideration will also be given to outstand- modeling. The Department has organized an application process. We will begin the review pilers. Currently, the department has an ing candidates in other areas. The candidate institute to focus on agent-based computing. of candidates to be interviewed in January and experimental systems research group of five must have demonstrated potential to achieve The University also has strong programs in therefore encourage your early application. faculty with research interests spanning these national visibility through accomplishments Spatial Information Science and Engineering, Additional information about academic areas. in research contract and grant funding, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. We and research units within the Department One of the other positions is to be filled by publications, teaching and supervising are actively seeking individuals whose research Computer Science at the University of a senior person qualified to participate in the graduate students. has interdisciplinary components or potential. Maryland is available at our web site: campus-wide program in computational biol- Faculty teach mostly at the graduate-level The Department has strong ties to Jackson http://www.cs.umd.edu ogy and bioinformatics. The department and offer a continuing research seminar. State Laboratory, the National Center for The University of Maryland is an Equal intends to hire persons whose research com- and university funds are available to support Geographic Information and Analysis, and the Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. plements existing departmental strengths. We research initiation efforts. External grants/con- Maine Software Developers Association. Our are especially interested additionally in algo- tracts from federal and state agencies support Web site can be visited at www.cs.umaine.edu. University of Massachusetts, rithms, theory, and graphics. the Center’s ongoing research (over $4.5M in The University of Maine is located one Amherst The Department of Computer Science is a 1998-99). Salaries are competitive along with hour from the beautiful Bar Harbor area, Department of Computer Science growing and congenial department of 23 fac- excellent support directed towards the attain- which includes Acadia National Park, and Faculty and Research Scientist Positions ulty with wide areas of research interests. The ment of our faculty’s professional goals. The approximately the same distance to skiing and The University of Massachusetts, Amherst department has 500 undergraduate and 80 Center’s colloquium series brings many world remote hiking areas. The area provides a pleas- invites applications for tenure-track faculty graduate students and offers the B.S., M.S., known professionals to our campus each year. ant, safe, and affordable living environment. positions at the assistant professor level. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science. The FELLOWSHIPS: Extensive cultural activities are available at Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Computer teaching load allows for substantial concentra- A number of PhD fellowships, valued at up the Maine Center for the Arts and in the Science or related area and should show evi- tion on research. Faculty interact with several to $18,000 per year including tuition and most greater Bangor area. dence of exceptional research promise. centers for computational science, including fees, are available. They provide support for up Salary and startup support packages are Candidates with an established record of centers for Genomics and Computational to four years of study towards the PhD in com- competitive. Applicants should send a letter of strong research may also apply for positions Biology, Molecular Structure and Design, puter science or computer engineering. application, a statement of research interests, a other than at the assistant professor level. Complex Carbohydrate Research, Eligible candidates must be U.S. citizens or resume, and three letters of reference to: Candidates in all areas of Computer Science Computational Quantum Chemistry, and must have earned an MS degree from a U.S. Prof. George Markowsky, Chair are encouraged to apply, but we are particu- Simulational Physics. or Canadian university. Recipients also receive Department of Computer Science larly interested in computer vision, robotics, The University of Georgia, founded in preference of low-cost campus housing. 5752 Neville Hall computer architecture, and foundational and 1785, is the oldest land-grant university in the THE CENTER: Orono, ME 04469-5752 emerging areas of software. We particularly nation and the largest university in the state The Center is primarily a graduate Review of applications will begin January welcome candidates who would thrive in a of Georgia, with a student body of 31,000. research unit, of 15 faculty, with programs 15, 2002 and continue until the position is highly collaborative environment in which Located in Athens, a charming and historic leading to MS/PhD degrees in computer sci- filled. We encourage applications from projects often span several research groups. university town of 100,000, approximately 65 ence and computer engineering. More than women and under-represented minorities. The The Department of Computer Science has miles from metropolitan Atlanta, with mild 230 graduate students are enrolled in these University of Maine is an Equal 37 tenure and research track faculty and 170 winters and warm summers, the University programs, including 65 PhD students. The Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Ph.D. students with broad interdisciplinary boasts a major Performing Arts Center, the Center has state-of-the-art research and research interests. The department offers first- country’s best fitness and exercise facility for instructional computing facilities, consisting of University of Maryland, class research facilities and has just moved students and faculty, and was recently ranked several networks of SUN workstations and College Park into a new state-of-the-art building. Please see in the top 20 public universities by U.S. News other high performance platforms. In addition, Center for Bioinformatics and http://www.cs.umass.edu for more information. and World and Report. the Center has dedicated research laboratories Computational Biology Applications should reference search R12389. Applicants should submit a vita and a in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, DIRECTOR and NINE FACULTY We also invite applications for Research statement of research interests and arrange to Intelligent Robotic Systems, Software The University of Maryland invites faculty Faculty (R12390), Research Scientist have three reference letters sent to: Research, VLSI Design, Automated applications at all levels for the newly estab- (R12391), Postdoctoral Research Associate David Gries Reasoning, Multimedia Applications, Wireless lished Center for Bioinformatics and (R12391), and Research Fellow (R12391) Faculty Search Committee Chairman Communication, Mobile Information Computational Biology. The campus has com- positions in all areas of Computer Science. Department of Computer Science Technologies, Internet Computing, and mitted substantial resources to the Center, Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer The University of Georgia NASA Regional Applications Center (RAC). including funds for the recruitment of nine Science or related area (or an M.S. plus equiv- Athens, GA 30602-7404 Related university programs include the new faculty including a Director. It is antici- alent experience), and should show evidence To be assured full consideration, applica- CSAB accredited undergraduate program in pated that the primary specialization areas of of exceptional research promise. These posi- tions should be received by January 15, 2002. Computer Science Department, and the the new faculty will collectively span the fields tions are grant-funded; appointments will be The University of Georgia is an equal oppor- ABET accredited undergraduate program in of computer science, mathematics and statis- contingent upon continued funding. tunity/affirmative action employer, and espe- Electrical and Computer Engineering tics, molecular biology, molecular To apply, send a letter with your vitae and cially encourages applications from women Department. Additional information about the evolution/phylogeny, and biochemistry. The at least three letters of recommendation to: and minorities. Center may be obtained at primary responsibility of the new faculty will Search {fill in number from above} http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/. be to lead a nationally visible research pro- c/o Chair of Faculty Recruiting University of Illinois at Chicago THE UNIVERSITY: gram in selected areas of computational Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Faculty The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is genomics, proteomics and molecular evolu- University of Massachusetts Positions the second largest university in the state of tion, complementing existing strengths at the Amherst, MA 01003-4610 We invite applications for assistant, associ- Louisiana, with enrollment of about 16,000 University of Maryland. Candidates for the We will begin to review applications on ate and full professors as well as lecturers. A students. It is a Doctoral II university. Director position are expected to be senior November 1, 2001, and will continue until Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or its Additional information may be obtained at researchers with prominent recognition in available positions are filled. Salary commen- equivalent is required for tenure-track http://www.louisiana.edu/. The University is these areas. surate with education and experience; compre- positions. A master’s degree in Computer located in Lafayette, the capital of Acadiana, All the new faculty will be housed in con- hensive benefits package. Science is required for the lecturer position. which is characterized by its Cajun music and tiguous space set aside for the Center, and will Inquiries and requests for more informa- Outstanding candidates in all areas of food, and joie de vivre atmosphere. The city, have access to significant high-end computing tion can be sent to: [email protected] Computer Science will be considered. All can- with its population of over 120,000, provides infrastructure through the University of The University of Massachusetts is an didates should have outstanding teaching and many recreational and cultural opportunities. Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity research potential. Lafayette is located approximately 120 miles Studies. Each will also be affiliated with at employer. Women and members of minority UIC is a research-1 university and the west of New Orleans. least one other campus academic unit appro- groups are encouraged to apply. largest institution of higher education in the The search committee will review applica- priate to her/his interests. There is ample Chicago area. The University is in the midst tions and continue until the position is filled. potential for collaboration with other out- UMass Lowell of a $500 million campus development proj- Candidates should send a letter of intent, cur- standing bioinformatics research groups Department of Computer Science ect. The Department of Computer Science has riculum vitae, statement of research and nearby, in organizations such as NIH, Celera, The Department of Computer Science at 31 faculty members and 250 graduate students, teaching interests, and names, addresses and TIGR, the Maryland Biotechnology Institute, the University of Massachusetts Lowell seeks and offers BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees. It has telephone numbers of at least four references. and the Smithsonian Institution. To apply, scholars with exceptional records or, for junior annual research expenditures of $4.5 million. Additional materials, of the candidate’s send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, appointments, with exceptional potential to The department has six IEEE, ACM fellows choice, may also be sent to: and URL for additional information to expand our suite of research groups. We invite and four NSF career award winners on its fac- Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi, Director [email protected], and have at least 3 applications for several tenure-track faculty ulty. It has state of the art computing resources The Center for Advanced Computer letters of recommendation sent to: positions to start in January 2002 or for research and teaching. It is one of the Studies Cecilia Kullman September 2002, from applicants with special- fastest growing departments in terms of schol- University of Louisiana at Lafayette Center for Bioinformatics and ties in traditional or innovative areas of com- arly research and grant productivity. For more Lafayette, LA 70504-4330 Computational Biology puter science. We anticipate hiring at the information, visit our web page at Tel: 337.482.6147 Institute for Advanced Computer Studies assistant professor level, but will consider can- http://www.cs.uic.edu. Fax: 337.482.5791 2131 A.V. Williams Bldg didates at all levels. The UIC campus is located near down- The University is an Affirmative University of Maryland Our campus is located 35 miles northwest town Chicago, and is close to other research Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. College Park, MD 20742 of Boston in the state’s high-tech corridor and institutions and universities. Chicago offers all The University of Maryland is an affirma- is considered the most technology-oriented of the cultural amenities of a major city, a wide University of Maine tive action, equal opportunity employer. the five UMass campuses. The CS department range of affordable housing and plenty of job Faculty Positions in Computer Science Women and minorities are encouraged to had 18 full-time faculty, as well as over 400 opportunities. For full consideration, send a Our expanding department invites applica- apply. Applications will be accepted until the undergraduates in our accredited bachelor’s vita and the names and addresses of at least tions from people interested in a tenure-track positions are filled. program and over 250 graduate students in the three references by January 31, 2002 to: position at the assistant or associate professor master’s and doctoral programs. Our research Prof. A. Prasad Sistla level starting September 2002. One position The University of Maryland, specialties include human-computer interac- Search Committee Chair has been approved and another is likely to be College Park tion, visualization and perception, bioinfor- Dept. of Computer Science (M/C 152) approved. These positions are part of a Department of Computer Science matics, database systems, networking and 851 S. Morgan Street planned expansion of the faculty over the next The Department of Computer Science is telecommunications, languages and compilers, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7053 several years. Rank at time of appointment is seeking faculty members at all ranks. Truly object-oriented software engineering, internet Applications will be considered until all dependent upon qualifications and experience. outstanding candidates in all areas will be con- and web systems and newly formed groups in positions are filled. The University of Illinois A Ph.D. in Computer Science or related sidered, but we are especially seeking candi- computational complexity, computational at Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal discipline is required. Candidates should dates in the areas of: Computer Vision, geometry, network and system security, and Opportunity Employer. exhibit a strong commitment to teaching and Networks, Mobile Computing, Multimedia robotics and assistive technology. For more solid research potential. Preference will be Systems, Graphics, Human-Computer information about us, please visit: given to candidates with a strong background Interaction, Databases, Information Security, www.cs.uml.edu. in database systems, distributed and parallel Programming Languages and Software We are seeking candidates who will con- systems, digital communications/networking Engineering, Theory of Computing. tribute to the intellectual life of the depart- operating systems, or programming languages. Candidates with established research pro- ment, the university and the region by Responsibilities include graduate and under- grams will be considered for joint appoint- establishing active research groups, teaching
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Professional Opportunities core and elective computer science courses to 20 primary research scientists, 900 undergradu- Chair, Faculty Recruiting Committee • Computational Mathematics. Research undergraduate and graduate students, and ate and 600 graduate students. It is equipped Department of Computer Science and will emphasize cryptography and associated establishing professional connections with the with state-of-the-art laboratories, physical Engineering computational security issues. The applicant some of the thousands of thriving information facilities and support infrastructure, computing University of Minnesota will have the opportunity to collaborate with technology companies in the area. organization and facilities, and an easily 4-192 EE/CSci Building the Department of Mathematics. Applicants must have a doctorate in accessed library. The Department has diverse 200 Union St. S. E. • Knowledge based health care. This posi- Computer Science or a closely related disci- educational and research programs with strong Minneapolis, MN 55455 tion is in collaboration with the Department pline at the time of appointment. Please send interdisciplinary collaborations. The research Electronic submissions of applications are of Health Management and Informatics. Areas a statement of research interests; curriculum programs include an Engineering Research welcome and may be sent via e-mail to appli- of specialization include but are not limited to vitae; selected relevant papers; the names, Center and several other multi-disciplinary [email protected]. (Electronic submissions medical imaging, digital libraries, artificial addresses, email addresses, and telephone and multi-investigator programs. The current must be in Postscript or PDF formats.) Review intelligence, storage and processing of images, numbers of at least three references; and, if annual research expenditures are approxi- of completed applications will begin December social computing. appropriate, your residency status to: mately $34M. More information can be 1, 2001, but the search will remain open until • Networking. Research will focus on in Dr. Thomas M. Costello, Head obtained from the Department’s home page at all positions are filled. data communications and networking, includ- Department of Computer Science http://www.eecs.umich.edu/. The University of Minnesota is an equal ing but not limited to wireless, ubiquitous University of Massachusetts Lowell The position is expected to be filled by opportunity educator and employer. computing, protocols and networking architec- One University Avenue September 2002. Interested persons should ture, high performance systems, computer net- Lowell, Massachusetts 01854 send a letter by March 1, 2002, along with a University of Mississippi works performance. Applicants must have an [email protected] detailed curriculum vitae and the names and Department of Computer and Information outstanding research and excellent funding Review of applications will begin immedi- addresses of three potential references to: Science record. The department encourages senior ately and continue until the positions are Chair, EECS Chair Search Advisory Chair level applicants for this position. filled. U. S. citizenship or permanent residency Committee The University of Mississippi invites appli- • Theoretical Computer Science. The is required. The University of Massachusetts is 1221 Beal Avenue, ADAA-2466 LEC cants for the position of Chair of the successful candidate will be expected to an equal opportunity, affirmative action College of Engineering, University of Department of Computer and Information develop a research program in various areas of employer, and encourages applications from Michigan Science. The Chair will provide leadership computer science, including but not limited to women and minorities. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2102 and overall strategic direction for the instruc- theory of computation, programming lan- Letters nominating likely candidates are tional and research programs of the guages, compiler design, and applications. University of Miami also encouraged. The University of Michigan Department. Requirements include a Ph.D. in The Department of Computer Engineering Department of Computer Science is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action computer science or a closely related field, evi- & Computer Science has established several New tenure-track faculty positions Employer. Women and minority candidates dence of excellence in undergraduate and outstanding federally and industrially funded The Department of Computer Science at are especially encouraged to apply. graduate teaching, demonstrated record of research programs in computational intelli- the University of Miami seeks to hire new research accomplishments in one or more gence, multimedia processing, telecommunica- tenure-track faculty. At least one appointment University of Michigan, Ann major areas of computer and information sci- tions, decision support, image processing, is envisioned at the rank of Assistant Arbor ence, and service relevant to the leadership of computer vision, speech understanding, Professor, and at least one at the rank of Department of Electrical Engineering and an academic department. The successful can- visualization, pattern recognition, databases, Associate Professor. Candidates must hold a Computer Science didate must also display outstanding people digital libraries, networking, computer archi- doctorate in computer science or a related skills and be a citizen or permanent resident of tecture, parallel processing, robotics, and Computer Science and Engineering various IT applications. field, and must demonstrate strong potential Division Faculty positions the US. The Department has a CSAB-accred- for excellence in research and teaching. ited undergraduate program and offers the MS Please send a resume, a statement of teach- Applications and nominations are solicited ing and research plan, and three references to: Rank and salary are commensurate with for several junior and senior faculty positions and PhD degrees. The University is located in qualifications. the historic town of Oxford in the wooded Faculty Search Committee Chair in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Computer Engineering and The Department of Computer Science is a (CSE) Division. Qualifications include an out- hills of north Mississippi, ninety minutes drive newly established department, recently sepa- from Memphis. Review of applications will Computer Science standing academic record, a doctorate or 201 Engineering Building West rated from the combined Department of equivalent in computer engineering or com- begin immediately and will continue until the Mathematics and Computer Science. The suc- position is filled or an adequate applicant pool University of Missouri-Columbia puter science, and a strong commitment to Columbia, Missouri 65211-2060 cessful candidate will show the desire to shape teaching and research. Candidates from all is reached. Applications, including a descrip- the future of this budding department. The tion of teaching and research interests, experi- http://www.cecs.missouri.edu areas of computer science and engineering will We will start the review of applications University of Miami is a Group I research uni- be considered. ences and accomplishments, a complete vita versity as well as a member of the next-genera- and the names and addresses of four profes- immediately, and will continue to consider The University of Michigan is a Non- applicants until positions are filled, subject to tion Internet (Internet2) project. For more Discriminatory/Affirmative Action Employer. sional references, should be sent to: information on the department and the uni- Dr. Peter C. Sukanek, Chair availability of funds. Positions are expected to Please send resume and names of three or start in August 2002. versity, please visit our web site at more references to: Computer and Information Science www.cs.miami.edu. Search Committee, 134 Anderson Hall The University of Missouri-Columbia is a Professor John E. Laird, Assoc. Chair Doctoral/Research Extensive Institution by Applicants should send a letter of applica- CSE Division The University of Mississippi tion, curriculum vitae, research statement, University, MS 38677 the Carnegie Foundation for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Advancement of Teaching. UMC is an teaching statement, and the names of three Computer Science Email: [email protected] OR WWW: references to: http://www.cs.olemiss.edu Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity University of Michigan employer. To request ADA accommodations, Victor Milenkovic, Department Chair 1301 Beal Avenue, Room 3402 Fax: (662) 915-7023 Faculty Search Committee, Department of AA/ADA/EOE. please contact our ADA Coordinator at Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 (573) 884-7278 (V-TTY). Computer Science URL: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/cse University of Miami, P. O. Box 248154 You may submit applications and inquiries University of Mississippi University of Nebraska – Lincoln Coral Gables, FL 33124-4245 via email to [email protected] Department of Computer and Information Computer Science and Engineering or via email to [email protected] Science Please include in your letter of application Department University of Minnesota - Twin 2002 Faculty Search a URL containing supporting material, such as The UNL CSE Department is embarking The Department of Computer and online publications. Electronic submissions are Cities on dynamic growth and seeks applications for Information Science invites applications for strongly encouraged. Department of Computer Science and endowed professorships, tenure-track faculty several tenure-track positions at the Assistant Review of applications will begin Engineering positions, and research faculty positions in the or Associate Professor level. The rank will immediately and continue until positions Faculty Positions following areas: depend upon the experience of the individuals. are filled. Women and minorities are The Department of Computer Science and Bioinformatics, Computational sciences, Requirements include a Ph.D. or equivalent in encouraged to apply. The University of Engineering at the University of Minnesota Computer engineering, Database and informa- computer science or a closely related field. Miami is an Affirmative Action/Equal invites applications for several open faculty tion systems, Distributed systems, Networks, The applicant must have the ability to teach Opportunity Employer. positions. These positions are primarily at the Software engineering, or Computer science both undergraduate and graduate students, assistant professor level, but highly qualified and engineering education. conduct research in major areas of computer applicants at higher ranks will also be consid- Exceptional candidates in other areas will University of Michigan in Ann and information science, and supervise M.S. ered. Specialists from all areas of computer sci- be considered. Arbor and Ph.D. students. The BSCS program has ence and engineering are encouraged to apply. UNL is a comprehensive research univer- Electrical Engineering and Computer been accredited by CSAB since 1990. The Requirements include a Ph.D. in computer sci- sity with Carnegie I standing and membership Science University is located in the historic town of ence, computer engineering, or a closely in the elite Association of American Chair Oxford in the wooded hills of north related discipline, a commitment to quality Universities. The CSE Department offers BS, The Department of Electrical Engineering Mississippi, an hour drive from Memphis. teaching, and the potential for carrying out MS, and PhD degree programs in both com- and Computer Science (EECS) in the College Oxford has a wonderful small-town outstanding research. Senior candidates must puter science and computer engineering. of Engineering at the University of Michigan atmosphere with affordable housing and possess a distinguished record of teaching, Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, is a prosper- in Ann Arbor is initiating a search for a chair. excellent schools. research, and service. ous, medium-sized city that ranks high in qual- The qualified candidate should possess out- Review of applications will begin immedi- The research and teaching missions of the ity-of-life. standing leadership and administrative capa- ately and will continue until the position is Department encompass a wide range of areas, For complete position advertisements, visit bilities, an established record in research and filled or an adequate applicant pool is reached. including networking and distributed multime- http://cse.unl.edu/search, email teaching, and an earned doctorate in areas rel- The applicant must provide evidence of dia, internet technologies, databases, data [email protected], or phone (402) 472-2401. evant to electrical engineering, computer engi- mining, software engineering, computer archi- research potential, effective communication neering or computer science. The candidate tecture, compilers, programming languages, skills, and a broad background in computing. should have a clear understanding of the pres- Send a complete vita (including graduate University of North Texas artificial intelligence, robotics and computer Department of Computer Science ent status of the profession and a vision of the vision, computer graphics and visualization, courses and visa/citizenship status) and the future needs of electrical engineering, com- names of four references to: Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty algorithms and complexity theory, geometric The Department of Computer Science at puter engineering and computer science edu- computing and applications, human-computer Dr. H. Conrad Cunningham, Chair cation. The Department has been extremely Department of Computer and Information the University of North Texas invites applica- interaction, parallel computing, and scientific tions and nominations for multiple faculty active and successful in conducting multi- and computing. Science cross-disciplinary research within the College University of Mississippi, 237 Kinard Hall positions at all levels and all areas of Its faculty members, numbering thirty, Computer Science to start in Fall 2002. The and the campus. The candidate should be able have access to outstanding computing facilities University, MS 38677 to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to Email: [email protected] or University of North Texas is making substan- both within the Department and at the vari- tial commitments to the growth of the nurture the present activities and foster future ous research centers on campus, including the WWW: http://www.cs.olemiss.edu research and educational synergies across other Fax: (662) 915-7396 Computer Science Department. The CS Army High Performance Computing Research department is strongly committed to research departments, institutes, and centers within the Center, the Minnesota Supercomputing The University of Mississippi is an College of Engineering and the University EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/ Section and teaching excellence, and continued Institute, and the Institute for Mathematics growth and increasing national visibility. In overall. and its Applications. The Department is 504/ADA/ADEA employer. The candidate should have strong abilities addition, the State of Texas is making avail- poised to play a prominent role in the Digital able supplemental funds based on research in promoting sponsored research programs, Technology Center, which is scheduled to be The University of Missouri- leading development activities, and interact- Columbia excellence to institutions of higher education operational at the University in Spring 2002. in Texas. The University offers nationally ing with government, industry, and profes- Department of Computer Engineering and External research funding in the department competitive salaries and start-up funds. sional societies. The qualified candidate has grown steadily over the past several years Computer Science should be able to lead and support the faculty The CS department offers Bachelor of and recently topped $4.1 million. Additional Announcement of Faculty Positions to ensure that the highest academic standards Arts, Bachelor of Science (accredited by information about the Department is available The Department of Computer Engineering are maintained for undergraduate and graduate CSAB), Master of Science and Doctor of at its World Wide Web home page: and Computer Science invites applications for education, and undergraduate and graduate Philosophy degrees. Typical enrollments http://www.cs.umn.edu. The Minneapolis-St. several tenure-track positions. Applicants research. The candidate should be able to include over 800 undergraduate students and Paul area is a major center for the computer should have or are about to complete a PhD in work with a diverse group of faculty, staff, stu- over 150 graduate students. Current faculty industry and for advanced technology, and the Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or dents, and administrators to achieve common research areas include Theoretical CS, Department enjoys strong interactions with a related field. They should show evidence of goals and to maintain an effective rapport Networking, Security, Algorithms, Computer local industries. excellent research and teaching promise. with alumni and industry representatives. In Systems, Agent based systems, Databases, Applicants should submit a curriculum Outstanding senior faculty will also be consid- addition, the candidate must be able to man- Knowledge Bases, Scientific Computing and vitae, a research summary, and the names of at ered. Successful applicants will be expected to age a large staff and budget. Computer Aided Geometric Design. Faculty least three references to: establish a quality research program, to teach The Department is highly regarded nation- research is supported by local, state and both graduate and undergraduate courses, and ally, with approximately 90 tenured or tenure- federal agencies as well as private and to participate in student advising. The open track professorial faculty, 5 full-time lecturers, commercial concerns. More information positions are primarily focused in: (cont’d) Page 21 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Professional Opportunities about the department can be found at position is filled. The University is an equal to “two –body problems” and would be For further information concerning the http://www.cs.unt.edu/ opportunity/affirmative action employer. pleased to assist with opportunities in the ECE department, please visit UNT is a 500-acre campus located in Women and minorities are especially Philadelphia region. www.ece.uprm.edu. Denton, Texas, a city approximately 35 miles encouraged to apply. Applications, with curriculum vitae, three north of Dallas. Current enrollments exceed University of Pittsburgh reference letters and MS and Ph. D. tran- 26,000. The city of Denton and the Dallas University of Oregon Department of Computer Science scripts should be sent to: Metroplex host a variety of cultural and social Computer and Information Science 4-Assistant Professor and 2-Lecturer Prof. Héctor Monroy, Chairman events throughout the year. The area also Faculty Positions positions Department of Electrical and Computer offers numerous employment opportunities to The Department of Computer and The Department of Computer Science at Engineering professional spouses. Information Science has multiple tenure-track the University of Pittsburgh is initiating a University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Applicants for senior positions must and tenured faculty positions open for Fall search for four tenure track positions and two P. O. Box 9042 demonstrate established research record, fund- 2002. The department’s primary recruiting non-tenure track positions effective September Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681 ing history and national recognition. Junior focus is in the following areas: networking and 2002. We seek to fill the four tenure track UPRM is an equal opportunity affirmative positions require an earned doctoral degree in parallel/distributed systems at both assistant positions at the Assistant Professor level, but action employer. Computer Science or a related field and a and associate professor levels, programming higher-level appointments are possible for potential for research and teaching. languages at the assistant professor level, and qualified candidates. The non-tenure track University of Redlands Interested persons should send an applica- graphics at the assistant professor level. positions are at the lecturer level. All Department of Mathematics and tion including a detailed curriculum vitae and Outstanding applicants in other areas will also applications from experienced scholars with Computer Science have at least three letters of reference sent to: be seriously considered. Applicants must have outstanding records of accomplishment and The University of Redlands invites appli- Faculty Search Committee a Ph.D. in computer science, a demonstrated intellectual leadership are encouraged. The cations for one or two tenure-track positions Department of Computer Science record of excellence in research, and a strong University of Pittsburgh is an Affirmative in Computer Science, specialty and rank open, P. O. Box 311366 commitment to teaching. Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women to begin in fall of 2002. The second position is Denton, Texas 76203 The CIS department has seventeen and members of minority groups who are offered pending administrative approval. or electronically to: [email protected]. research faculty and two instructors and offers under-represented in academia are especially Candidates should have a strong interest in The committee will begin its review of the B. S., M. S., and Ph.D. degrees. We offer a encouraged to apply. teaching a wide variety of undergraduate com- applications on or about December 1, 2001. stimulating and friendly environment for col- Outstanding candidates are sought in all puter science courses. Responsibilities include However, the committee will accept applica- laborative research both within the depart- areas of Computer Science including but not teaching six courses per year, directing tions until all positions are filled. Letters nom- ment and with other departments on campus. limited to: operating systems, distributed sys- student research projects, and engaging in inating likely candidates are also encouraged. The CIS Department is associated with the tems, databases, networks, architectures, scholarly activity. The University of North Texas is an Equal Cognitive and Decision Sciences Institute, the graphics, and programming languages. Requirements include the Ph.D. in com- Opportunity/Affirmative Action/ADA Computational Science Institute, the Responsibilities include research, supervision puter science or a related field by September 1, employer, committed to diversity in its faculty Computational Intelligence Research of graduate student research (PhD and MS), 2002, and evidence of excellence in and a and educational programs. Laboratory, and the Software Engineering and graduate and undergraduate teaching. commitment to both undergraduate teaching Research Center. More information about the Candidates should have a PhD in Computer and scholarship in computer science. We seek University of Notre Dame department, its programs, and faculty can be Science and demonstrate exceptional research candidates with interest and demonstrated Department of Computer Science and found at http://www.cs.uoregon.edu potential and teaching ability. ability in working with a diverse student popu- Engineering Mail your request to: University of The Lecturer positions are to be filled by lation. The University of Redlands, which The Department of Computer Science and Oregon, Dept. of Computer and Information outstanding teachers. Candidates for this posi- enrolls 2000 undergraduates, is a selective, pri- Engineering at the University of Notre Dame Science, Eugene, OR 97403-1202 tion should preferably have a PhD, although vate, comprehensive liberal arts university (http://www.cse.nd.edu) invites applications The University of Oregon is an AAU applicants with an MS in Computer Science located in Southern California. for tenure-track faculty positions. Ranks and research university located in Eugene and and with other suitable qualifications in To apply, submit a letter of application, a areas of research specialty are open. within an easy drive of both the Pacific Ocean advising of students and in curriculum design curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts (unoffi- Qualifications include an earned Ph.D. in and the snow-capped Cascade Mountains. and management will be considered. cial OK), a statement of teaching philosophy, computer science, computer engineering, Applicants should send their curriculum Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference, at least two of or a related field, evidence of the ability to vitae, the names of at least four references, a a statement of research and teaching interests, which must address teaching, to: develop and/or sustain an active research statement of research and teaching interests, and names and addresses of at least three Dr. Janet L. Beery, Chair program, and a sincere interest in quality and selected publications to: references to: Department of Mathematics and teaching at the undergraduate and Faculty Search Committee Professor Rami Melhem, Chair Computer Science graduate levels. Appointments to chaired Dept. of Computer and Information Department of Computer Science University of Redlands professorships may be available for exception- Science University of Pittsburgh Redlands, CA 92373-0999 ally qualified candidates. University of Oregon Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Review of applications will begin on Notre Dame was ranked 19th among doc- Eugene, OR 97403-1202 Please direct your inquiries to Friday, January 18, 2002, and will continue toral universities by US News and World email: [email protected] [email protected]. Applications must until the position is filled. The University of Report in 2001. The average SAT score for Review of applications will begin in be received by January 18, 2002 to ensure Redlands is an EEO employer. We especially entering students across the University as a December 2001 and continue until the posi- full consideration. encourage women and members of other whole approaches 1350. Notre Dame’s her- tions are filled. The Department provides a stimulating underrepresented groups to apply. itage is unique among top-ranked national The University of Oregon is an Equal environment for research and teaching those universities, resulting in a distinctive character Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution results in strong graduate and undergraduate University of San Francisco of campus life. committed to cultural diversity and compliance programs. The Department already has Computer Science Department Screening of applications will begin on with the Americans with Disabilities Act. strengths in artificial intelligence, program- Assistant Professor December 1, 2001 and continue until the posi- ming languages, algorithms/theory, computer The Department of Computer Science at tions are filled. Applicants should send a cover University of Pennsylvania architectures, distributed systems, and software the University of San Francisco (USF) invites letter, a curriculum vita, a statement of Department of Computer and Information systems and engineering. The Computer applications for a full-time tenure-track posi- research interests, a statement of teaching Science Engineering program is an established partner- tion at the Assistant Professor level, to begin interests, and the names and addresses of at Faculty Positions ship between the Computer Science Fall 2002. Further details on the position are least three references qualified to comment on The University of Pennsylvania invites Department and the Electrical Engineering available online at the applicant’s qualifications either to faculty- applicants for tenure-track appointments in Department. Departmental resources include http://www.cs.usfca.edu/job.html. [email protected], or to: both experimental and theoretical computer extensive computing facilities of over 350 USF is an AAEOE. Chair, Faculty Search Committee science to start July 1, 2002. Senior level workstations and personal computers with Department of Computer Science and appointments will also be considered. Faculty multimedia capabilities and specialized net- University of Saskatchewan Engineering duties include undergraduate and graduate works and devices. Faculty members also have Department of Computer Science 384 Fitzpatrick Hall level teaching as well as research. network access to additional high performance Canada Research Chairs/Tenure Track University of Notre Dame computing platforms provided by the general Successful applicants will find Penn to be a Faculty Positions Notre Dame, IN 46556 stimulating environment conducive to profes- computing facilities of the University as well University of Notre Dame is an Equal as by the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (of The Department is undergoing a signifi- sional growth. Construction is under way on cant expansion in its research and teaching Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. our new $21 Million Computer Science which the University of Pittsburgh is a found- ing member). For further information about activity, due to increased financial support Building. The Department of Computer and from Government and the University. The University of Oklahoma Information Science has embarked on a strate- the Department please see http://www.cs.pitt.edu. Applications are invited for up to 8 tenure- School of Computer Science gic plan to add a significant number of tenure- track faculty positions at the Assistant, The School of Computer Science at the track faculty over the next five years. We seek Associate and Full Professor levels to start University of Oklahoma seeks to fill a faculty to expand and broaden both the applied and University of Puerto Rico at July 1, 2002. position. Candidates must have demonstrated theoretical sides of our research and teaching Mayaguez We are seeking three senior researchers for expertise in formal methods related to software program, building on existing strengths in Electrical and Computer Engineering nominees as Tier I Canada Research Chairs in development, with a special interest in the use algorithms and computational biology, com- Department areas of Bioinformatics, Networks, and of such methods in practice and with signifi- puter graphics and animation, computer vision College of Engineering Real-time Systems. cant, related research accomplishments. and robotics, databases, logic and computa- The department of Electrical and We are also interested in outstanding Research involving polymorphic, statically tion, natural language processing, networks Computer Engineering of the University of entry-level candidates from all areas, but espe- typed, declarative programming languages is and distributed systems, programming lan- Puerto Rico at Mayagüez invites applications cially databases, software engineering, bioin- especially welcome. Applicants must hold a guages, and real time systems. for three tenure-track positions in Computer formatics, networks, graphics, hardware, and doctorate in computer science or a related The University of Pennsylvania is an Science or Computer Engineering. human-computer interaction. Applicants must discipline. Ivy League University located near the Appointments will be made by July 1, have a Ph.D. in computer science or equivalent. The School of Computer Science offers center of Philadelphia, the 5th largest city in 2002.The Department plans to increase its Located in Saskatoon, Canada’s best place bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. About the US. Within walking distance of each overall strength in computing, and has partic- to raise a family, the University of 350 students are enrolled in the undergraduate other are its Schools of Arts and Sciences, ular interest in attracting faculty in the areas Saskatchewan is a major Western Canadian computer science program, which is CSAB Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Law, of networks, databases, computer architecture, university with approximately 18,000 students. accredited. The School has about 100 graduate Business and Fine Arts. The University and distributed systems. But candidates from Our Department has arguably the best climate students. Faculty research interests include campus and its surroundings in Philadelphia all areas of computing are encouraged to apply. in Canada. The friendly and supportive envi- functional programming, database systems, benefit from a rich diversity of cultural Applicants must possess a Ph. D. degree in ronment, combined with our excellent software engineering, fault tolerance and test- opportunities as well as attractive urban and computer science, computer engineering, or research reputation, makes the Department an ing, embedded systems, intelligent systems, suburban residential neighborhoods. related fields, and demonstrate strong poten- ideal place to develop a successful academic telecommunication networks, parallel and dis- To apply, please complete the form located tial for excellence in research. career. Our Department offers graduate pro- tributed computing, large scale scientific com- on the Faculty Recruitment Web Site at: Currently, a significant number of faculty grams at the M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels. See puting, graph theory and combinatorial http://www.cis.upenn.edu/positions/ members of the Department of ECE are http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty_positions.shtml. optimization, and theoretical computer sci- faculty_application.html engaged in research in Computer Science and Consideration of completed applications will ence. Norman is a community of about 90,000 Electronic applications are strongly pre- Computer Engineering areas including image begin immediately and continue until the people in the Oklahoma City metropolitan ferred, but hard-copy applications (including processing, signal processing, parallel and dis- positions are filled. area, which, taken altogether, has about a mil- the names of at least four references) may tributed computing, computing systems, com- Send curriculum vitae and the names and lion residents. Norman offers award-winning alternatively be sent to: munications, net-centric computing, addresses of three references to: schools, an inexpensive cost of living, and the Chair, Faculty Search Committee human-computer interaction, and databases. Professor Jim Greer, Head rich intellectual life of a university town. Department of Computer and Information NASA, NSF, and NIH are the main sponsor- Department of Computer Science Applications with a list of 5 references Science ing agencies for this research. 57 Campus Drive must be submitted to: School of Engineering and Applied The department offers an undergraduate University of Saskatchewan Rex Page, Chair Science degree in Computer Engineering, a Master in Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9 Canada Faculty Search Committee University of Pennsylvania Science, and a Master in Engineering degree [email protected] School of Computer Science Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 in Computer Engineering, and a Ph.D. degree Applicants, regardless of their immigration The University of Oklahoma Applications should be received by January in Computing and Information Sciences status, can apply. Members of Employment 200 Felgar Street, Room 144 15, 2002 to be assured full consideration. and Engineering. Equity Groups (women, aboriginal people, Norman, OK 73019-6151 Applications will be accepted until positions The University of Puerto Rico at people with disabilities, and visible minorities) Tel: (405) 325-5408 are filled. Questions can be addressed to: Mayagüez has approximately 13,500 students. are encouraged to self-identify. Special efforts Fax: (405) 325-4044 [email protected]. The Department of Electrical and Computer will be made to assist with locating positions E-mail: [email protected] The University of Pennsylvania is an Engineering has 1,640 undergraduate students for spouses. Screening will begin on November 1, Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and 115 graduate (MS and Ph. D.) students. 2001. Applications will be accepted until the Employer. The Penn CIS Faculty is sensitive Page 22 November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
Professional Opportunities The University of South Carolina and has Master’s degrees in Computer Science disabilities. Canadian Citizens and Veritas DGC Department of Computer Science and with major in Software Engineering as well as Permanent Residents will be considered Houston Processing Center-Houston, TX Engineering tracks in Telecommunications, and first for these positions. Cluster Programmers Faculty Positions in Computer Science Traditional Computer Science. At the under- These appointments are subject to the Our seismic processing operations image and Engineering graduate level, the Computer Science availability of funds. subsurface structures by using tremendous Applications are invited for tenure-track Department is the first in the state of Texas to computing power, which include hundreds of positions at all levels. Candidates should have offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Software University of Wisconsin-Madison PC clusters. We are looking for candidates a doctorate in computer science, computer Engineering. In Fall 2002, the Department of Computer Sciences Department with experience in cluster programming and engineering, or a related discipline. Computer Science will move into a new Faculty Positions system support. Candidates for Assistant Professor positions 250,000 sq. ft. building. We have experienced The Computer Sciences Department at Position Requirements include: BS or are expected to have strong research potential very rapid growth in recent years and the the University of Wisconsin-Madison, consis- higher in Computer Science, Electrical as well as an interest in teaching at both the potential for future growth is excellent. tently ranked among the top ten departments Engineering, or related technical degree. undergraduate and graduate level. Candidates Currently the Computer Science Department in the nation, has embarked on a multi-year Recent experience with Parallel and for positions above Assistant Professor must has a total of 34 faculty and 13 senior lecturers. effort to significantly enhance the strengths of Distributed Computing. Experience in parallel possess an exceptional research record. The University is located in the most the department. As a part of this endeavor, we programming Familiarity with MPI, PVM. Candidates from disciplines outside computer attractive suburbs of the Dallas metropolitan hired nine new faculty over the last three Programming experience with Fortran, C, science or engineering must show an ability to area. There are over 600 high-tech companies years, and have multiple faculty positions C++ and JAVA. Knowledge of Geophysics or contribute directly to the research and teach- within 10 miles of the campus, including available beginning August 2002. Geophysical Data Processing is a plus, but ing mission of the Department. New faculty Texas Instruments, Nortel Networks, Alcatel, We invite applications from outstanding not required. will receive strong support from the Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Fujitsu, candidates in all areas of Computer Science. Qualified Candidates should submit Department as they embark on their MCI, EDS, and Perot Systems. Almost all the Applications from candidates in the areas of resume to: [email protected] professional careers. country’s leading telecommunication’s compa- artificial intelligence, computer architecture, by fax to 832-351-8770, or The Department of Computer Science and nies have major research and development computer graphics, databases, and networking by mail to Veritas DGC Engineering is in the College of Engineering facilities in our neighborhood. Opportunities are especially encouraged. Applicants should GeoServices HR and Information Technology and offers BE, for joint university-industry research projects have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or in a 10300 Town Park BS, ME, MS, and Ph.D. degrees to about and consulting are excellent. closely related field with demonstrated Houston, TX 77072 650 undergraduate majors and 175 graduate In addition to individual faculty worksta- strength in scholarly research. The positions Visit our website at www.veritasdgc.com. students. The University of South Carolina is tions, the department has twelve are at the Assistant Professor level, but excep- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. located in South Carolina’s capital and computer/research laboratories equipped with tional candidates at the Associate Professor technology center and is the comprehensive around 200 high performance workstations level (tenured) will also be considered. Virginia Tech graduate institution in the state, with an and high-end PCs. The Academic Computer Successful candidates will be expected to Department of Computer Science Center supports both UNIX based worksta- enrollment of more than 26,000 students. teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute For more information, see www.cse.sc.edu. tions and PCs as well as high-speed dial-in in addition to establishing a strong and highly access to campus computing facilities. For The Department of Computer Science and Applicants should submit a curriculum visible research program. the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) vitae along with the names and addresses of more information, contact Dr. D.T. Huynh, Further information about the department Department Head, at 972-883-2169 or 972- seek applications for tenure-track positions in three references to: may be found at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/. the Department of Computer Science from Chair, Faculty Search Committee 883-2808; send e-mail to [email protected], Applicants should submit a curriculum or view the Internet Web page at individuals desiring to make fundamental con- Department of Computer Science and vitae, statement of research objectives, sample tributions to both computer science and the Engineering http://www.cs.utdallas.edu/dept/cs/. The search publications, and arrange for at least three let- committee will begin evaluating applications life sciences in bioinformatics. Special funding University of South Carolina ters of reference to be sent directly to: from the Commonwealth of Virginia provides Columbia, SC 29208 on December 1, 2001, and will continue until Chair, Faculty Recruiting Committee the positions are filled. competitive salaries and startup funding for Electronic applications should be sent to Computer Sciences Department five faculty positions over the next three years. [email protected]. Applicants will be accepted Applicants should mail their résumé with a University of Wisconsin-Madison list of at least five academic or professional ref- Three positions are currently open: one at the until positions are filled. 1210 West Dayton St. Professor rank and two at the The University of South Carolina is an erences as soon as possible to: Madison, WI 53706 Academic Search #748 Associate/Assistant rank. affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Applicants are encouraged to submit their Applicants for the senior position must The University of Texas at Dallas applications as soon as possible, but no later P. O. Box 830688, M/S AD 23 have a significant track record of grant fund- The University of Texas at Austin than February 15, 2002. ing. All applicants must have a demonstrated Richardson, TX 75083-0688 The University is an Equal Opportunity/ Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas is an record of publications in computer science or Tenure Track Positions Affirmative Action employer and encourages computational science, and a commitment to Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action women and minorities to apply. Unless The Department of Computer Sciences of employer and strongly encourages applications addressing significant life science problems. A the University of Texas at Austin invites confidentiality is requested in writing, infor- demonstrated record of accomplishments in from candidates who would enhance the diver- mation regarding the applicants must be applications for tenure-track positions at all sity of the University’s faculty and administration. bioinformatics is preferred. Ability to collabo- levels. Excellent candidates in all areas will be released on request. Finalists cannot be guar- rate with other computer scientists, researchers seriously considered. One senior position anteed confidentiality. in VBI, and faculty in the life sciences is University of Waterloo required. Successful applicants will be requires experience in developing and main- Department of Computer Science taining strong relationships with government University of Wisconsin- expected to secure significant external fund- agencies and industrial partners. Faculty Positions Milwaukee ing, conduct a highly productive research pro- All tenure-track positions require a Ph.D. The University of Waterloo invites appli- Computer Science gram, attract and advise doctoral students in or equivalent degree in computer science or a cations for several tenure-track faculty posi- Tenure-Track Faculty Positions computer science, and help develop interdisci- related area at the time of employment. tions in Computer Science. The Department The Computer Science Program at the plinary graduate programs in bioinformatics. Successful candidates are expected to pursue prides itself on being a leader in Computer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is seeking The university has a strong commitment an active research program, perform both grad- Science education. Our Computer Science qualified candidates to fill several tenure-track to bioinformatics. The Virginia Bioinformatics uate and undergraduate teaching, and super- department houses a diverse research program faculty positions. We invite applications from Institute currently employs over 25 faculty and vise graduate students. with international stature. Because of its rec- strong candidates at all levels and in all areas staff, and is projected to grow to 75 faculty and The department is ranked among the top ognized capabilities, the Department attracts of Computer Science, subject to the needs of staff in the next year and to a level of $13 mil- ten computer science departments in the exceptionally well-qualified students at both the Department. All candidates for faculty lion in annual state funding by 2004. VBI country. It has 36 tenure-track faculty mem- undergraduate and graduate levels. Waterloo positions should have a demonstrated promise already has attracted over $10 million in bers across all areas of computer science. The pioneered the co-operative education system in research and teaching in Computer external funding in its first year. The department participates in the University’s in Canada and now has the largest co-opera- Science. Senior candidates should have excel- Department of Computer Science has an out- Computational and Applied Mathematics tive education program in North America. lent research records. standing record of multidisciplinary research, interdisciplinary program. Austin, the capital The University of Waterloo’s Computer The Computer Science Program at UWM and has projects in human-computer interac- of Texas, is located on the Colorado River, at Science Department is one of the largest and is poised for continued development. Our tion, high performance computing, problem the edge of the Texas Hill Country, and is the most eclectic department within Canada. Program has an excellent record in hiring out- solving environments, digital libraries, and famous for its live music and outdoor recre- Over twenty new faculty members have joined standing junior faculty and in helping them bioinformatics. Additional information on the ation. Austin is also a center for high-technol- the Department recently, resulting in nearly develop their careers. Several of the eligible positions and the department is available at ogy industry, including companies such as 60 full-time faculty members. The Department faculty in our Program have received the NSF http://www.cs.vt.edu. Additional information IBM, Dell, Motorola, Sematech, AMD, MCC, enjoys an excellent reputation in pure and Early CAREER Award. Program faculty are about VBI is at http://www.vbi.vt.edu. Tivoli, Trilogy, Dejanews, and Origin Systems. applied research and is supported by 14 depart- engaged in research projects that span many Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, a For more information please see the depart- mental research laboratories. The University areas including Artificial Intelligence, scenic, lively, All-American Award winning ment web page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/. has an enlightened intellectual property policy Computational Geometry, Computer town in southwest Virginia with affordable To apply, please send a curriculum vita, in which the rights are vested in the inventor; Graphics, Cryptography and Data Security, housing. Nearby is the white water of the New home page URL, description of research inter- in part, this policy is responsible for many Distributed Systems, and Programming River and 1.7 million mountainous acres of ests, and selected publications, and ask three spin-off companies such as Waterloo Maple Languages and Software Systems. Many of the national forest. referees to send letters of reference directly to: and Open Text Corp. For further information projects include collaborative work with Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, Faculty Search Committee about the Department, please see researchers from other academic units, institu- a 1-2 page statement of research goals in both Computer Science Department http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/index.html tions and industrial organizations. computer science and life science, and at least University of Texas at Austin Exceptional candidates at all levels of Our University, the home of about 24,000 three letters of reference to: Austin, Texas 78712 USA experience and in our priority recruiting areas: students, is located in a very pleasant residen- Bioinformatics Faculty Search Inquiries about your application may be bioinformatics, distributed systems, graphics, tial neighborhood near the shores of Lake Dept. of Computer Science, 660 McBryde directed to [email protected] networks, scientific computation, software Michigan. Our location in a major metropoli- Hall (0106) Applications will be considered immedi- engineering, and user interfaces are encour- tan area helps facilitate easy interactions with Virginia Tech ately until the positions are filled. To ensure aged to apply. Successful applicants are industry and affords many cultural and recre- Blacksburg, VA 24061 full consideration, please apply by January 15, expected to develop and maintain a produc- ational activities. Review of candidates will begin October 2002. Women and minority candidates are tive program of research, to attract and Applicants should send a hard copy vita by 15, 2001, and continue until the positions are especially encouraged to apply. The University develop highly qualified graduate students, to post or fax, and we also request at least three filled. The College of Arts and Sciences is of Texas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. provide a stimulating learning environment letters of reference be sent to: deeply committed to recruiting, selecting, pro- for undergraduate and graduate students, and Faculty Recruitment Coordinator for moting, and retaining women, persons of to contribute to the administration of the Computer Science color, and persons with disabilities. We The University of Texas at Dallas Department. A Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Science Department Department of Electrical Engineering and strongly value diversity in the college commu- equivalent is required, with evidence of excel- Computer Science nity, and seek to assure equality in education Tenure-Track Positions lence in teaching and research. Rank and The Computer Science Department of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and employment. Individuals with disabilities salary will be commensurate with experience. P.O. Box 784 desiring accommodations in the application The University of Texas at Dallas invites Applications should include a curriculum applications for tenure track faculty positions Milwaukee, WI 53201-0784 process should notify Dr. Dennis Kafura, vita and the names and e-mail addresses of E-mail: [email protected] 540/231-6931, TTY: 800/828-1120. in Computer Science at all levels, starting three references. The application should be January or September 2002. Visiting positions Fax: 414-229-6958 directed to: Evaluation of all candidates will begin Fall Wake Forest University may also be available. Chair, Department of Computer Science Candidates for tenure-track positions must of 2001 and will continue until the positions Computer Science University of Waterloo are filled. Female and minority candidates are have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Endowed Chair in Computational Software Engineering, Computer Engineering strongly encouraged to apply. Faculty applica- Biophysics [email protected] tions must be accompanied by a statement of or equivalent. Candidates for junior positions To expedite handling of applications, can- Wake Forest University invites applica- should show strong potential for excellent plans for research and teaching. Please visit tions for an endowed chair with the title of didates should ask those named as references our website at http://www.cs.uwm.edu for peri- teaching and research; candidates for senior to direct supporting letters to the same Reynolds Professor of Physics and Computer positions should have a strong record of odic updates on the status of our recruitment. Science. Wake Forest is a highly ranked, pri- address. The positions are expected to com- UWM IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ research, teaching, and external funding. mence during the 2002 calendar year. vate university with about 3800 undergradu- Candidates in all areas of Computer Science, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTION ates, 600 graduate students, and 1,500 students Applications will be considered as soon as COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY. including algorithms, networking, graphics, they are complete and as long as positions in the professional schools of medicine, law, architecture, bioinformatics, distributed sys- remain available. and business. The Physics Department has a tems, embedded systems, software engineering, The University of Waterloo encourages significant focus in biophysics and is recruiting and multimedia, will be considered. applications from all qualified individuals, for an Assistant Professor in Computational The Department of Computer Science including women, members of visible Biophysics in addition to this joint position offers the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science minorities, native peoples, and persons with with Computer Science. A significant number (cont’d) Page 23 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS November 2001
Professional Opportunities of the Faculty in Computer Science focus their Dr. Catalin Roman, Chairman should arrange to have at least three letters of management, mathematics, medicine, psychol- research on Scientific Computing, with Department of Computer Science recommendation, including one letter which ogy, physics, and statistics. Yale faculty regu- applications in astrophysics, biophysics, and Campus Box 1045, Washington University evaluates teaching qualifications, sent directly larly have the opportunity to teach excellent biomedical imaging. One Brookings Drive to the following address: students, both graduate and undergraduate, in The successful candidate will have St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Computer Science Search Committee relatively small classes. received international recognition of excel- Applications will be considered as they are Department of Mathematics & Computer Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in com- lence in the area of computational biophysics, received. Those arriving after February 1, Science puter science or related discipline. preferably in functional genomics. The candi- 2002, may not be given full consideration. Wesleyan University Applications submitted by January 1, 2002 will date should also have demonstrated excellence Washington University is an equal opportu- Middletown, CT 06459-0128 be given highest priority. Qualified women in the teaching of courses relating to topics in nity/affirmative action employer. and minority candidates are encouraged to physics, biophysics, and computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute apply. Yale is an affirmative action/equal the undergraduate and graduate levels. Wayne State University Computer Science Department opportunity employer. Our home page may be Continued excellence in research, teaching, Department of Computer Science Tenure-Track Faculty found at www.cs.yale.edu. and obtaining external funding will be Faculty Positions Do you want the combination of a Send vitae and have at least three letters expected. Collaboration with researchers in The Department of Computer Science of research university teaching load with a lib- of reference sent to: other Departments such as Chemistry, Wayne State University invites applications eral-arts college environment? Do you like Faculty Recruiting Committee Biology, Mathematics, and the WFU Medical for several tenure-track faculty positions at all engaging undergraduates together with gradu- Department of Computer Science School will be encouraged. Applicants should levels to start in January 2002 or August 2002. ates in long-term, open-ended projects? Would Yale University send a copy of their CV and statements All areas of computer science will be considered. you enjoy doing interdisciplinary research, P. O. Box 208285 regarding their research interests and teaching Candidates should have a Ph.D. in com- experiencing the interplay between technol- New Haven, CT 06520-8285 philosophy to: puter science, engineering or a closely related ogy and society, and helping students apply The Reynolds Professor Search Committee field, a strong interest in and commitment to their technical skills in global settings? If so, Box 7507, Wake Forest University both research and teaching, a publication you should consider joining the faculty at WPI Workshops Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7507 record in their area and show potential for WPI’s acclaimed and long-standing proj- from Page 11 Applications are due January 5, 2002. obtaining external research funding. ect-based undergraduate curriculum and a sig- More information is available at Applicants for a senior position should nificant graduate program offer its faculty a second and final workshop for under- http://www.wfu.edu/csphy/recruiting. demonstrate a strong record of external fund- unique balance between research and teach- Wake Forest University is an equal oppor- ing and significant impact in their field. ing. The department of computer science graduate teachers of computing- tunity/affirmative action employer. Wayne State University, located in expects to hire several tenure-track faculty to related disciplines. The workshop Detroit’s Cultural Center, is a comprehensive start in January or August 2002. Candidates Washington University in Saint (Carnegie I) urban research university serving should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a will examine ways to use history to Louis 33,000 students. The University has made a closely related field, and the potential for improve undergraduate teaching. Department of Computer Science strong commitment to information technology excellence in research and teaching. Faculty Positions Available and academic computing. Two of the positions are targeted for appli- The speakers and topics will have www.cs.wustl.edu The Department of Computer Science cants in the areas of Software Engineering, little overlap with those from the Applications are invited for tenure-track offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Federal Databases and computer graphics/vision; the first workshop, which was held at faculty positions at the Assistant, Associate agencies as well as industries support a variety other positions are open to excellent candi- and Full Professor levels. Applicants should of research programs within the Department. dates in all areas. We will consider applicants Amherst College in August 2001. hold a doctorate in Computer Science or a The Department maintains active collabora- at any rank for all positions. Thus, people who attended the first closely related field, have a record of accom- tive relationships with the Institute for The department currently has 16 tenure- plishment in research, and demonstrate a Scientific Computing, Institute for track faculty and enjoys an exceptionally workshop, as well as newcomers, are strong commitment to teaching. Manufacturing Research, Smart Sensor close-knit, collegial atmosphere. The depart- welcome and should find material of Building upon the impressive recruiting Program, Life Science Corridor initiative and ment grants B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in successes of the last three years that included many other centers and departments within Computer Science, and has a Computer and interest. Although exact dates have ten new tenure-track faculty, the Department the university, which provide research Communications Networks graduate program, not been set, the workshop will most plans to fill several additional faculty posi- opportunities in computer science. jointly with the Electrical and Computer tions. The Department continues to seek out- Applicants should send a letter of intent, a Engineering department. Faculty research is likely be held in Minneapolis in late standing candidates likely to develop statement of research and teaching interests, a funded by both federal agencies (such as NSF April 2002. synergistic relationships with existing areas of resume and the names of at least three refer- and DARPA) and industrial collaborators. We In a fast-moving, forward-looking research excellence. Academic couples seeking ences including the reference’s address, email, plan a large increase in faculty size over the to co-locate are strongly encouraged to apply. telephone and fax number. Please send this coming years. The department currently is the field such as computer science (or Research groups in search of a highly support- information to: largest at WPI in terms of student body, with other computing-related disciplines) ive institutional environment may also want Dr. Farshad Fotouhi, Chair more than 500 majors and over 100 full-time to consider relocating to Washington Faculty Search Committee M.S. and Ph.D. Students. where curricular concerns are often University. With the strong backing of the Wayne State University WPI, the nation’s third oldest college of focused on cramming in as much University and the School of Engineering and Department of Computer Science engineering and science, has approximately Applied Science, the Department is commit- 5143 Cass Avenue, Room 431 State Hall 2,700 undergraduates and over 1,000 full- and technical information as possible, the ted to making significant investments in Detroit, MI 48202 part-time graduate students, with over 220 addition of modest amounts of his- promising new areas of study and to providing 313-577-3107 (voice) tenure track faculty. the kind of resources and environment that 313-577-6868 (fax) For further information about the univer- tory into the established curriculum will enable new faculty members to flourish [email protected] sity see the WPI and the Computer Science can have highly salutary effects. intellectually. Candidates with a strong back- Applications will be accepted until the Department web-sites (www.wpi.edu and ground in networking (including wireless com- positions are filled. www.cs.wpi.edu). The WPI campus is situated The purpose of this workshop is to munication and security), software systems Wayne State University is an equal oppor- in the heart of Worcester, close to the city’s offer teachers practical advice about (particularly embedded systems, mobile com- tunity/affirmative action employer. Wayne major cultural attractions, including the how to use history to enhance their puting and database), computer engineering, State University - People working together to American Antiquarian Society, the Worcester theory, multimedia communications, human provide quality service. All buildings, struc- Art Museum and several major music current instructional practices. This interfaces, and computational science will tures and vehicles at WSU are smoke-free. performance venues. workshop will likely include a tour of receive special consideration. Worcester, the third-largest city in New The Department enjoys a great research Wesleyan University England, is forty miles west of Boston. The the Charles Babbage Institute for the reputation and impressive levels of research Department of Mathematics and city offers access to the diverse cultural and History of Information Processing activity, e.g., annual research expenditures Computer Science recreational resources of a major city. recently reached a record high of $450,000 per The Department of Mathematics and Worcester is also the seat of nine other col- and practicums to get advice about faculty member. Research areas which are well Computer Science at Wesleyan University is leges and universities, including the Medical using historical materials in your own represented in the Department include: net- seeking to fill a tenure-track computer science School of the University of Massachusetts. working and communications; distributed soft- position at the Assistant Professor level start- WPI is close to numerous high-tech compa- courses, as well as some lectures by ware systems; graphics and computer vision; ing in the fall term of 2002. Candidates for the nies (in town and along the I-495 and Rt. 128 leading historians. artificial intelligence; computer and system position should have a Ph.D., or be near com- corridors); it is three miles from a thriving bio- No registration fee will be charged. architecture; and computational biology. Our pletion of a Ph.D., in Computer Science or a technology industrial park and offers ample doctoral graduates have been heading for suc- related area. opportunities for industrial interaction. Approximately 20 scholarships, cov- cessful careers in academia and industrial The Department (http://www.math-cs. To apply, submit a letter of application, ering hotel and meal costs (but not research centers while noteworthy entrepre- wesleyan.edu/) currently has four full-time resume and the names, postal addresses and e- neurial endeavors spearheaded by our faculty computer scientists with research interests in mail addresses of at least three references to: travel) will be available. (Faculty not and graduates (with the full support of the algorithms, bioinformatics, programming lan- Recruiting Committee receiving a scholarship will be wel- University) attest to a highly respected tech- guages, and computational logic. There is Computer Science Department nology transfer tradition and culture. Strict excellent interaction with mathematicians in WPI, 100 Institute Road come, but must pay for their own limits on University undergraduate enroll- the department in the fields of combinatorics Worcester, MA 01609-2280 housing and meals.) Faculty who are ments combined with the increasing popular- and logic and with faculty in the sciences Questions about the hiring process, as well ity of Washington University allows the through an inter-disciplinary initiative in inte- as electronic applications should be addressed interested in attending should send Department to continue to offer small classes grative genomic sciences. The Department has to [email protected]. For full consideration, an e-mail of interest to William and close personal attention to a diverse stu- undergraduate degree programs in both mathe- applications for positions beginning in January dent body of exceptional quality and to bene- matics and computer science as well as an 2002 should be received by 10/15, and for Aspray
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Special Insert Computing Research Association 2. Responsible Behavior. The academic participants in a commercialization activity are typically the creators of the IP, the faculty and graduate stu- dent inventors, and the administrators of the institution, the university. They are governed by guidelines, policies, and laws designed to circum- scribe and define acceptable behavior. The burden of acting legally, ethi- Best Practices Memo cally, and responsibly relative to these constraints falls to the inventors and the university. Integrity is essential to the process if the institution is to preserve academic freedom. As the University of California’s Statement On Conflicts of Interest points out, “A codification of the com- Commercialization Oversight for plex ethical questions involved, even if possible, would be unduly restric- Computer Research Departments tive.” In addition to these two principles, the commercial oversight concept is Summary founded on the premise that it is an internal—that is, a departmental—respon- sibility. The inventors are members of the department, and any ill effects of The relentless pressure to innovate in the information technology (IT) commercialization will have an impact on the students and faculty. Further, industry has drawn university researchers and graduate students into entrepre- situations in which a graduate student is exploited or a faculty member carries neurial situations to an increasing degree. The trend affects the academic the load for a moonlighting colleague are evident at the departmental level. enterprise in diverse ways, both favorable and unfavorable. The risks and They are invisible at the school, college, or university levels. So oversight is a rewards are outlined, and the concept of a Commercialization Oversight departmental responsibility. Committee is described as a mechanism that can facilitate the best outcomes when interests conflict. Role of Commercialization Oversight Background From the two principles outlined above, it is evident that the role of the CO Committee is not to enforce regulations, but to facilitate high standards in The dramatic proliferation of information technologies and the rapid order to preserve collegiality. Although there are many ways to do this, the rate at which IT research is being commercialized have recently put pressures CO activity will likely fulfill four basic functions: on computer science and allied departments, as their faculties and graduate stu- dents ponder the opportunities presented by entrepreneurship. Commer- 1. Serving as a focal point for commercialization information. cialization is an outcome of research that society values and is one of the 2. Vigilance on behalf of the student-faculty relationship. justifications for research funding; hence, it is important to facilitate it. But it 3. Vigilance on behalf of the faculty-faculty relationship. is clear that the traditional standards of collegiality, scholarly respect, and peer 4. Periodic review of commercialization activity. governance that are typical of academic departments can be jeopardized by commercialization opportunities. These functions can be fulfilled by groups of one to several people, but a The problem is not new. Commercialization opportunities have been avail- committee of two neutral senior faculty offers the advantage of providing mul- able since the invention of ENIAC. And, as observed in the ENIAC experi- tiple points of view and, possibly, some wisdom. In this case, ‘neutral’ means ence, commercial potential can engender conflicts and disputes. The current that the faculty are not themselves involved in commercialization activities problem, however, differs in magnitude and appears to have been precipitated that would be of concern to the committee. (Consulting is not typically an by two recent departures from past experience. First, the scale and speed of the issue for this committee.) It is appropriate, and possibly advantageous, if the startup opportunities seem to be greater than in the past. These changes seem members have had previous commercialization experience. The goal is to to be propelled by the recent business concepts of “time to market” and ensure independent judgment, both in appearance and in fact. “winner take all” that are critical to IT commercialization. Focal Point. It is likely that many faculty members proceed through their Second, federal legislation, known as the Bayh-Dole Act, requires universi- careers, oblivious to university policies on commercialization and unaware of ties to assess the commercialization potential of any intellectual property (IP) their obligations under federal laws such as the Bayh-Dole Act. Graduate stu- created with federal funding. Obligated by statute to set up technology transfer dents are even less well informed. Then one day they realize their research offices and motivated by the possibility of helping the institution in the event efforts have produced IP of commercial value. The CO Committee can serve of a commercialization success, universities, like faculty and students, are as a neutral source of information or, more typically, can direct inventors to torn between the altruism of a scholarly paradise and the essentials of a campus resources related to technology transfer. business incubator. The existence of the CO Committee is perhaps most critical to graduate Some issues to be considered include: students whose closest academic confidant may be their advisor, a person who • Should a faculty member starting a company take a leave of absence, or is will have a conflict of interest if the IP has been developed jointly. (See starting a company compatible with a full-time faculty position? How Vigilance.) By making the committee visible within the unit and emphasizing long can a leave be? How often can a leave be taken? its role as an unbiased facilitator, students can be confident of receiving inde- • Can a graduate student work for a company founded by a faculty member pendent and unbiased advice about commercialization. Note that the student and also be advised by that person? Who decides what is best for the stu- doesn’t have to have commercial interests to meet with the committee. A stu- dent’s academic career vs. what is best for the university? dent whose advisor is too busy with a commercialization activity to fulfill his or • If a company is started, will everyone who participated in the ideas her role as advisor might seek input from the committee as well. at the university feel that they have received a fair reward for Another focal-point aspect of the CO Committee, especially if it maintains their contributions? some continuity from year to year, is its role as the repository of corporate • If a project at the university is related to the company, how does infor- knowledge regarding past commercialization activities. Although commercial- mation flow between the two? ization situations are generally very different from one another—which is why • Will the number or content of publications or the distribution of soft- the process cannot be so easily codified—experience always teaches lessons. ware be restricted to preserve commercial advantage? Mistakes should not be repeated, and successes should be. Vigilance on Behalf of the Student-Faculty Relationship. There are several Some of these issues should be discussed within the department and guide- aspects of the student-faculty relationship1 with which the CO Committee lines should be established for faculty. Other issues are complex and situation- should be concerned: specific, eliminating any possibility of simple or universal solutions. One component of a solution that can address a few critical aspects of com- 1. The advisor/advisee role. mercialization and is widely applicable is the concept of a departmental 2. The faculty/student economic standing. Commercialization Oversight (CO) Committee. This memo describes the CO 3. The faculty/student job performance. concept and a typical charter. Principles of Commercialization Oversight Advisor/Advisee. Although faculty and graduate students may be equals in the creation of IP and in their roles as “economic individuals,” they are not A commercialization oversight activity is founded on two basic principles. equals in their academic relationships. The graduate student is typically subor- Although these principles have been adopted at a number of universities, they dinate in the following contexts: are perhaps articulated best in the University of California’s documentation. • As a research assistant on a grant, which is likely the source of the 1. Primacy of the University. The University of California states this princi- student’s livelihood. ple clearly in its Guidelines on University-Industry Relations: “First consid- • As a thesis student, who needs the approval and signature of the faculty eration must be given to the University’s mission of teaching, research advisor to receive his or her degree. and public service. In pursuing relationships with industry, the University • As a candidate for employment, grants, awards, etc., after graduation must keep the public trust and maintain institutional independence when the advisor may be asked to provide letters of recommendation. and integrity to permit faculty and students to pursue learning and research freely.” In addition, the faculty member may have considerable stature and influ- ence in the scholarly community into which the student is likely to enter, November 2001 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS
Special Insert which constitutes additional, if less direct, authority over the student’s future. to such potential conflicts is, first, to bring the matter to the attention of The existence of the above relationships affects other faculty-graduate stu- those affected. Second, the committee should promote an environment where dent interactions that, under different circumstances, would be equalized. For conflicts are limited to faculty who are essentially involved with the commer- example, suppose a faculty advisor starts a company and later asks a graduate cialization activity. That is, only people who are not involved in making student to work for the company, perhaps for the summer or on a consulting Promotion and Tenure decisions should be the negotiators for the institution. basis. The student’s willingness to agree or to accept the proffered terms of Workload Distribution. Founding or working at a startup is extremely diffi- employment may be tempered by the knowledge that the advisor could exploit cult to do concurrently with fulfilling academic duties. Although this fact is his or her advantage in the academic relationships. evident to anyone trying to do both, it is sometimes necessary to remind partici- The CO Committee must advise faculty to avoid such situations. (In the pants that they must choose the activity to which they will devote their time. cited example, the faculty member should delegate the negotiations to another This reminder is an appropriate activity for the CO Committee. principal of the company, or to an intermediary.) Students should be notified The signs that a faculty member is not shouldering his or her load are rarely that faculty have been so advised, and that they should not enter into such as flagrant as failing to show up for class. Rather, it will be visible in such situations. Although this protocol does not fully equalize the negotiation, it things as performance on committee assignments; lack of participation in strengthens the student’s position. Since eliminating such contact is impossible departmental decisions, governance, or research group leadership; diminished because of the strong economic incentives, both sides may have to cooperate, publication record; poor record as (undergraduate) student advisor; an unwill- perhaps making the “intermediary” solution the best that can be achieved. ingness to participate in department-wide projects, and so on. Other faculty This crucial role of alerting all participants to the potential risks of the type have an interest in their colleague’s poor performance, of course, because they just outlined is obviously most successful when accomplished early in the will have to take up the slack. commercialization activity. When the academic tradition of one-consulting-day-per-week no longer suf- Economic Standing. Because the Bayh-Dole Act requires institutions that fices for faculty to meet both their academic and commercialization responsibili- receive grants to pursue commercialization where appropriate, the investigators ties, some remedy must be sought. Leaves of absence for a limited duration are must disclose IP to the university if it was developed with federal funding. perhaps the most common solution. Reducing one’s commitment to half time After evaluating the IP, if the university decides it has commercial potential it is another possibility. A more extreme remedy is for the affected faculty mem- will proceed to secure its commercial interest (a patent, for example) and seek ber to resign, possibly assuming an adjunct role that allows for teaching or companies to license the IP. It is at this point that a faculty member might graduate-student advising at a lower level of commitment. found a company to license the IP from the university. For faculty involved in a commercialization activity, there are other con- Because the faculty-student relationship is often collaborative—while con- cerns beyond time allocation. To avoid conflicts of ownership, a faculty mem- ducting research or writing papers, for example—it is possible for both students ber’s university research and research advising should be kept separate from and faculty to misunderstand the change in their relationship, relative to the commercial R&D efforts. A faculty member or graduate student wishing to formation of a company. For example, students often assume that, if a faculty publish should not be restricted because a company claims ownership. The member founds a company based on IP to which they have both substantially greater the distance between the two, the clearer it is that there is no conflict. contributed, they will also both be founders. Periodic Review. Although the role of the CO Committee is more impor- But the decision to found a company is an economic decision open to both tant when a commercialization activity is just beginning, there is an ongoing the faculty member and the student equally, and others for that matter. role as well because the relationships evolve over time. Whether a faculty-initiated company includes the student as a founder, or vice Periodically, the committee should meet with faculty and graduate students versa, is a business decision. If the inventors receive a portion of the revenue involved in commercialization activities to review how the situation has derived by the university from the license, as is typical in most universities, changed, and to determine whether further facilitation is necessary. A regular then they will both share in the rewards of their IP despite the business activity schedule of meeting every six months to a year should suffice. of others.2 An additional committee responsibility might be to maintain a Web page Job Performance. Faculty members or graduate students involved in a com- that includes university policies and resources relevant to commercialization, a mercialization activity may neglect their academic responsibilities. description of the CO Committee’s role, and other information of potential When a faculty member is distracted by commercialization activity to the interest to students and faculty. detriment of graduate-student advising (typically advising students not involved in the commercialization), the CO Committee may receive com- Conclusion plaints. But the committee should be alert to this possibility and inquire—some Although this memo necessarily raises problems that can occur in the students may be reticent to complain, fearing retaliation from the advisor. One process of commercialization, it is not intended to denigrate the process. obvious remedy is for the student to switch advisors, but this is often not easy Indeed, significant technologies—processors, servers, operating systems, data- for students who are heavily invested in a particular research topic. And advi- bases, search engines, and so on—that we use every day were invented by stu- sors may not be eager to lose the student despite the problems. It is a delicate dents and faculty at universities, and were disseminated through the formation situation where the CO Committee may have to play the role of mediator. of new companies. Commercialization, despite the potential concerns outlined The case of a graduate student, but not the advisor, being distracted by in this memo, is an effective means of transferring the accomplishments of the involvement in commercialization usually takes care of itself. The advisor research community into practice for the benefit of society. keeps after the student to make progress. However, before an advisor issues a The conclusion, therefore, is not that commercialization carries with it too “progress or leave” ultimatum, options such as a leave of absence should be many risks for the university to be worth pursuing. The risks, though real, can considered. If graduate students are tempted to quit school and join the be managed, as has been described. Rather, the conclusion is that commercial- business, they should be counseled to consider the long-term career ization carries too many opportunities and benefits to let these manageable implications of that decision. risks stand in the way of transferring university-produced knowledge Graduate students whose dissertation research becomes the intellectual into practice. property of a commercialization effort should establish during negotiations that they retain unencumbered publication rights to their dissertation, and/or any related research papers that can help launch their career. End Notes Vigilance on Behalf of the Faculty/Faculty Relationship. Faculties de- 1. The relationship of concern is principally the one between faculty and their graduate emphasize power relationships among their members to promote the vitality of students. The relationship with undergraduate students is also important; however, intellectual interactions and the free flow of ideas. The term “collegiality” when the intellectual property is created, undergraduates are often tuition payers derives from this tradition. The ideal is worth preserving, but commercializa- rather than research assistants who receive stipends. This fact further complicates tion introduces two challenges to collegiality: the problem beyond the scope of this discussion. As the overall guideline empha- sizes, all relationships should be conducted in a fair and ethical way. 2. This arrangement, where the university licenses to a company formed by anyone, is 1. Conflicts of interest connected with the Promotion and Tenure process. based on the university’s ownership of the IP stipulated in Bayh-Dole for federally 2. Workload distribution. funded research. Other IP may or may not be owned by the university, depending on university policy. If graduate student and faculty inventors own and control the IP The CO Committee should be alert to both challenges. themselves, their interactions become even more complex. Promotion and Tenure. Though de-emphasized, there is still a significant power differential within a faculty between the tenured and non-tenured fac- Approved by the ulty and, to a lesser degree, between ranks. Those with senior rank typically Computing Research Association decide the promotion and/or tenure question for those with junior rank. If the Board of Directors person being promoted or tenured is involved in commercial activity with one July 2001 or more of the faculty deciding the question, including the chair or dean, there is a conflict of interest. Note that the conflict exists even if the senior person Prepared by: has no personal interest in the commercialization, but perhaps is negotiating David Patterson (University of California, Berkeley) agreements on behalf of the institution. Larry Snyder (University of Washington) It can be argued that the conflict might help or might hurt the candidate’s chances, depending on individual circumstances. But the issue is one of propriety, and the expectation is that the senior person will recuse himself or herself from the deliberations and decision. The CO Committee’s responsibility relative