Computing Research News A Publication of the Computing Research Association

January 2010 Vol. 22/No. 1 Congress Approves Increases for Science, Computing Research Final Budgets Still Fall Short of President’s Request By Peter Harsha

Computing research programs at over concerns raised by Senate the President’s requested budget to FY 2009, plus an additional $77 the National Science Foundation and appropriators about management for the agency. Included in that million in congressionally directed the Department of Energy’s Office issues at the agency. increase is an even larger percentage spending. The appropriation includes of Science are among those slated for While these science agencies will increase for NSF’s Computer and funding for the Advanced Scientific increases in fiscal year 2010, thanks see budget increases in FY 2010, in Information Science and Engineering Computing Research (ASCR) to appropriations legislation that each case the approved increase falls (CISE) directorate. CISE will receive program, which will receive $394 would keep those agencies on a path short of the President’s requested $620 million in FY 2010—less than million in FY 2010, an increase of to double their budgets over the next budget for FY 2010 for that agency. the $633 million requested by the nearly 7 percent over FY 2009. six years. Congress approved the last Typically, congressional appropriators President. but 8.1 percent greater of twelve annual appropriations bills use the shortfall between what the than the FY 2009 budget. National Institute of necessary to fund the operations President requested and what they NSF’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure Standards and Technology of government on December 18, appropriate to pay for congressionally (OCI) also fared well in the final NIST will receive $603 million for providing a healthy increase to the directed projects (also known as appropriation, receiving $215 million its core research efforts in FY 2010, an NSF budget, a more modest increase “earmarks”) to provide increases in FY 2010. This represents an increase of 9.6 percent compared to to DOE’s Office of Science, and a Congress believes the Administration increase of 7.7 percent over FY 2009, FY 2009. Included in that funding is slight increase in real terms for the wrongly failed to request for other but below the President’s requested nearly $58 million in congressionally National Institute of Standards and agencies or programs. increase of 10 percent. directed programs. Removing that Technology. NSF’s Education and Human National Science Foundation earmarked spending results in a real Basic research at the Department of Resources directorate received $873 decrease of 1.0 percent compared Defense also will see an increase in FY Funding for NSF will grow million for FY 2010, an increase of 6 to FY 2009—a level below the 2010, though the Defense Advanced to $6.93 billion in FY 2010, an percent over FY 2009, and $15 million Administration’s requested funding Research Projects Agency (DARPA) increase of 6.7 percent over FY more than the President’s request. level of $637 million. will see a 4.5 percent decrease 20091, but $118 million lower than Department of Energy’s Department of Defense Office of Science The FY 2010 Defense Inside CRN On October 28, 2009 Congress Appropriations Bill includes funding finished work on the FY 2010 Energy for all DOD research, including Expanding the Pipeline...... 2 Discovery and Innovation in Health IT...5 and Water Appropriations bill (P.L. DARPA and the Defense research Undergraduate Award Winners...... 3 Professional Opportunities...... 8 111-85) containing funding for DOE’s labs. In the run-up to the final bill, Musings from the Chair...... 4 Snowbird Preliminary Program..... 23-24 Office of Science. The Office received just over $4.8 billion in core funding, Congress Approves Increases an increase of 3 percent compared Continued on Page 7 PAID U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 993 NONPROFIT ORG. WASHINGTON, DC Connecting Teachers with Computer Scientists By Jan Cuny

Hands-on, discovery-based, true of many students’ hands-on responsibility to change this. National lab experiences are known to be experiences of computing, which too Lab Day gives us the opportunity. an essential part of middle and often are limited to keyboarding, National Lab Day is an high school students’ education word processing, and spreadsheets. unprecedented, national effort to in all STEM disciplines, including Some schools do a great job bring more high-quality, hands-on, computing. We tend to think of teaching computing, but many discovery-based lab experiences to “labs” as test tubes and beakers, more do not. Many of our students middle and high school students. ramps and levers, or frogs and bugs, are taught computer literacy but It is more than just a day. It’s a but in reality they can be defined not computational thinking, not nationwide movement to support much more broadly. A lab can STEM education in our schools. It’s be any place where students can teachers working with community explore, experiment, test, design, volunteers, and communities rallying and get their hands dirty and their “The quality of current around teachers to give kids access minds engaged. A lab could be to well-equipped labs and to the a mountaintop to a geologist, a lab experiences is poor for professional scientists, engineers, computer link to a distant particle most students.” and mathematicians who can inspire accelerator to a physicist, a factory them. Scientists and engineers in floor to an industrial engineer, or computing are certainly included; we a laptop to a software engineer. A are an integral, though often ignored, lab can be physical or virtual; it can the fundamentals of computer part of the STEM community. But we be anywhere that authentic lessons science. Many of our students can only be integral to Lab Day if we in science, technology, engineering, never experience the empowerment step up to the plate. math, and computer science can be that comes from being able to National Lab Day focuses on designed to happen. adapt and bend computation to the needs of participating teachers. The National Research Council’s their ends; they are users but not Teachers are the experts who best 2006 America’s Lab Report creators of technology. Too often know their students and their concluded that: “The quality of they do not understand what they

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Computing Research Expanding the Pipeline Association Board Officers CRA-W Showcases Its Programs at the Grace Eric Grimson Chair Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Massachusetts Institute of Technology By Joann J. Ordille Laura Haas Vice Chair IBM Almaden Research Center On September 30, the Grace of tomorrow. Funding for this year’s several CRA-W and CDC programs Susanne Hambrusch Secretary Hopper Celebration of Women Robotics Track was provided by that provide research experience Purdue University in Computing opened at the J.W. CRA-W and CDC programs. The for undergraduates (www.craw. Philip Bernstein Marriott Conference Center in track was led by CRA-W Board org/UgradResearch). Work by Treasurer Tucson. The sold-out crowd totaled Members Professor Maria Gini undergraduates in these programs Microsoft Research 1,570 women and men including of the University of Minnesota was presented in eight posters Board Members 520 industry and government and Professor Manuela Veloso of during the conference. The posters Sarita Adve professionals, 213 academic faculty Carnegie Mellon. covered such wide-ranging topics as University of Illinois, and staff, and 678 students. The The Robotics Track included talks the computation of RNA structures, Urbana-Champaign conference attracted globe-spanning on “Engineering and Self-Organizing reduction of energy consumption, Annie I. Antón participation with attendees from 22 Systems,” by Professor Radhika rapid prototyping, and social North Carolina State University countries and all continents except Nagpal of Harvard; “Living Better network privacy. William Aspray University of Texas at Austin Antarctica. You could see leaders with Robotics,” by Professor Cynthia In the final undergraduate session, Carla Brodley from Africa, educators, executives Breazeal of MIT; and “Challenges Professor Eleni Stroulia (University of Tufts University from popular technology companies, and Results of Multi-Robot and Alberta), Professor Andrea Danyluk Andrew A. Chien students, prominent researchers, Multi-Human Systems” by Professor (Williams College), and PhD Intel Corporation presidents of universities, and social Manuela Veloso. Participants Candidate Ramya Raghavendra (UC Alva Couch change agents in excited conversation. discussed how the life of insects Santa Barbara), both entertained and Tufts University Combining excitement and fun with can inspire better robot design, informed with stories of overcoming Richard A. DeMillo Georgia Institute of Technology learning and mentoring is one of the how robots can be made invisible the hurdles and reaping the rewards Mary Fernández best ways to strengthen the computer to help people in everyday tasks, of graduate school. ATT Labs Research science pipeline. and how symbiotic relationships The undergraduate workshop Kathleen Fisher The Computing Research of robots and humans can achieve expanded on the CRA-W and CDC ATT Labs Research Association Committee on the Status even better results. The track also Distinguished Lecture Series (www. Mary Jean Harrold of Women in Computing Research included a panel on “Career Paths cra-w.org/dls) in which distinguished Georgia Institute of Technology (CRA-W) is a founding sponsor of in Robotics” chaired by Professor lecturers visit colleges, universities, Jeffrey Hollingsworth University of Maryland the Grace Hopper Conference, and Gini and including panelists Dr. and regional conferences in North H.V. Jagadish has participated in every conference Sonia Chernova of MIT, Dr. Ashley America to provide a panel discussion University of Michigan from the very first. This year, CRA-W Stroupe of JPL, and Dr. Kristen on applying to and succeeding in Norman Jouppi expanded its participation and Stubbs of iRobot. graduate school. Hewlett Packard leveraged its long history of successful Also new to the conference this The three graduate school Rangachar Kasturi programs to contribute to two year were three CRA-W Career workshops sometimes attracted senior University of South Florida important new conference programs: Mentoring Workshops which undergraduate students too. Professor James Kurose University of Massachusetts the Robotics Track and the CRA-W received an enthusiastic, packed- Yvonne Coady of the University Margaret Martonosi Mentoring Workshops. CRA-W house reception from conference of Victoria helped new graduate Princeton University also launched a new effort at the attendees. The workshops, sponsored students hone their graduate school J Strother Moore conference to help undergraduates by CRA-W and the Henry Luce survival skills. Professor Susanne University of Texas at Austin build and execute a strategy for Foundation, addressed the needs of Hambrusch (Purdue University) David Notkin applying to graduate school. undergraduates, graduate students suggested ways to start technical University of Washington CRA-W Board Members and early career researchers, conversations with conference M. Tamer Özsu University of Waterloo participated in a variety of conference respectively, in advancing to the next attendees, and may even have helped Martha E. Pollack leadership positions. CRA-W Board stage of their careers. The workshops prepare some for a future pitch to University of Michigan Member, Professor Tracy Camp were organized by Dr. Joann Ordille venture capitalists. Professor Lori Jane Prey of the Colorado School of Mines, of Avaya Labs Research. Clarke (University of Massachusetts, Microsoft Research was this year’s Program Chair and The undergraduate workshop Amherst), addressed how to write and Fred B. Schneider will be General Chair in 2010. included sessions that moved from publish papers while maintaining the Cornell University CRA-W Board Member and Past why a student might consider, ethical standards of the profession. Robert Schreiber Hewlett Packard Co-Chair, Professor Lori Pollock of and even be excited by, a career in The graduate workshop provided Valerie Taylor the University of Delaware, will be computer science, to how to prepare a sampler of the types of programs Texas A&M University Program Co-Chair. for and apply to graduate school, included each year in CRA-W’s David Tennenhouse Grace Hopper 2009 included and to what life is like once there. Grad Cohort for Women New Venture Partners keynotes from leaders of research and One student commented that she (www.cra-w.org/gradcohort). The Sebastian Thrun industry, the special research track on was inspired by the world of possible Grad Cohort is a two-day program Stanford University robotics, a session with technology jobs and specialties described by that provides career-building Jonathan Turner Washington University at St. Louis executives on how to join their Professor Soha Hassoun of Tufts sessions and creates a community Dick Waters ranks, technical papers by graduate and Dr. Tessa Lau of IBM Almaden for sustaining students through their Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs students and recent PhDs, a student Research Center. graduate work. The Cohort is open poster session, special talks on using Professor Jodi Tims of Baldwin- to first- and second-year graduate Executive Director computer technology to ignite social Wallace College and PhD Candidate students, and is generously funded Andrew Bernat change, and a variety of sessions on Shannon Steinfadt of Kent State by Google and Microsoft. technology, research results, career caused a rush of sign-ups to another The workshop for early career CRN Editor skills, and expanding participation in CRA-W program that provided researchers also attracted advanced Jean Smith the computer science pipeline. one-on-one advising sessions on graduate students who were curious The Robotics Track was applying to graduate school. As about what lies ahead. The sessions inspired, in part, by the success of one student commented: “There is provided techniques for building Affiliate Societies the Discipline-specific Mentoring more to applying to graduate school one’s research program and preparing Workshops (www.cra-w.org/cdc) than meets the eye.” In the advising for promotion in the initial five years sponsored by CRA-W and CDC, the sessions, students learn to position after graduation. Coalition to Diversify Computing themselves as beginning researchers Dr. Cecilia Aragon (Lawrence (www.cdc-computing.org/). These and to match their interests and Berkeley National Laboratory) workshops bring senior researchers talents to academic programs. and Professor Justine Cassell in an area together with beginning The emphasis on positioning (Northwestern University) explained researchers from underrepresented a student as a researcher on their groups to help mentor the new graduate school application naturally Expanding the Pipeline CACS/AIC researchers into the senior researchers leads students to be interested in Continued on Page 6 Page 2

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CRA Announces Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Winners

The Computing Research the particularly challenging task of mathematical skills, Elyot is an expert a perfect GPA, Di has solved an open Association honors the recipients of detecting sarcasm. programmer and has had a number of problem in theoretical Computer its 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate In addition to her research, Lucy programming jobs while in college. Science with applications to Awards, sponsored this year by taught a summer course in robotics computer vision, and begun research Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs at Pomona for local high school Winner, Male Award on practical application of his ideas (MERL). Microsoft Research and students. While she received support Richard to image processing. MERL sponsor the awards in from the CS department, she initiated Matthew Di’s work focuses on the NP-hard alternate years. and created the entire program McCutchen problem of Quadratic independently. is a Junior at Unconstrained Binary Optimization Winner, Female Award the University (QUBO), which captures the Justine Runner Up, Female Award of Maryland essence of a variety of vision problems. Prior work by Prof. Endre Sherry is Xuexin majoring in Boros has identified a family of a senior at (Alice) Zhu Computer lower bounds of the optimal value, University of is a Senior Science and denoted by C2,C3,C4,..., and C2 Washington at Harvey Mathematics. can be computed using network with a double Mudd College Matt has a long history of research flow. Two questions are of great major in majoring in going back to high school. His interest about these bounds: Computer Computer high school work on the “popular 1) Can our understanding about C2 Science and Science. matching” problem (e.g., matching a be generalized to C3,C4,..., and International A central set of people to jobs trying to satisfy 2) Can we identify partial optimal Studies. problem their preferences) has already been assignment from the computation A longstanding impediment to the in pen-based interfaces is how to cited by several other researchers. of these lower bounds. For the study of the Internet is that it does not transition smoothly between drawing At Maryland, Matt has worked on particular bound C3, Di’s work explicitly expose information about and editing. Beginning In her streaming algorithms for clustering answers both questions in its topology, paths or performance. sophomore year, Alice proposed, built and developed a new algorithm for the affirmative. Utilizing the IP timestamp option (an and tested a novel pen-based interface handling outliers. Matt also has technique and has continued to work worked on various projects in the area obscure and little-used aspect of the Finalists, Female Award IP specification) Justine developed on the system. In 2009, she won first of programming languages. several techniques to measure place in the ACM student research Aside from research, Matt has Andreea Bodnari, Worcester unknown aspects of the Internet. She competition for this work. maintained a near-perfect GPA and Polytechnic Institute; Svetlana contributed critical timestamp-based In addition to doing high-quality has had great success at programming Lockwood, Washington State algorithms to the Reverse Traceroute research, Alice is a superior student contests. He has qualified for the University; Kyle Rector, Oregon project, which discovers routing paths maintaining the best GPA of any International Olympiad of Informatics State University; Rita Sodt, from a distant host back to a local CS major in her class while doing three times, winning two gold medals University of Washington; Olga source, improving both its accuracy extensive work as a TA. She has and one silver medal. Zverovich, Harvard University. and coverage. Having become probably won many prestigious awards in the world’s greatest expert on the IP computer science, including an Anita Runner Up, Male Award Finalists, Male Award timestamp option she then turned Borg Scholarship and a Microsoft Zachary Aleksandr Arkhipov, MIT; Paul to developing solutions to two other Scholarship. Abel is a senior Caravelli, Georgetown University; Internet measurement problems using at Harvard George Chen, UC Berkeley; IP timestamps: router alias resolution Winner, Male Award University Andrew Owens, Cornell University; and measuring the one-way latency of Elyot Grant majoring in Volodymyr Kuleshov, McGill backbone links. is a Senior at Mathematics University; Tom Morgan, MIT; In addition to performing valuable the University and Computer Peng Shi, Duke University; John research, Justine served last year as of Waterloo Science. Silberholz, University of Maryland; vice chair of the student chapter of majoring in Working and Edgar Solomonik, University of ACM at her university, where she Mathematics with an MIT Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. worked to engage other undergraduate and Computer professor, Zachary attacked the students in research by revamping Science. problem of whether hinged dissections Honorable Mentions, graduate student poster sessions Working always exist—that is, whether a single Female and introducing the undergraduate under an connected, hinged assembly can always Jacqueline Addesa, Virginia research information sessions at the undergraduate research award, Elyot fold between arbitrary configurations. Tech; Christina Brandt, Cornell University of Washington. She is was presented with a list of well-known Hinged dissections have been studied University; Heather Buletti, currently the chair of the student open problems and rapidly proceeded for more than 100 years, and many Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; ACM-W women’s chapter. to solve several of them. The most believed that they do not always exist Jeannette Chang, University of important relates to Kuratowski’s However, Zachary proved that they do Southern California; Jennifer Runner Up, Female Award theorem on closures in topological in fact always exist. Chen, Princeton University; Lucy spaces and how it relates to formal Based on the strength of this work, Nina Chen, New York University; Vasserman languages. In particular, he discovered Zachary was invited to participate in Milka Doktorova, Mount Holyoke is a Senior a clever and subtle proof that there a yearly collaborative Computational College; Shelley Gao, University of at Pomona is a clopen partition between two Geometry Workshop at which he Victoria; Allison Hoch, University College words if, and only if, the words do made significant contributions in of Maryland; Beenish Jamil, majoring in not commute. In the short time since both 2008 and 2009. In addition to George Mason University; Kateryna Computer then, Elyot’s ideas on the topological all this, Zachary has maintained a Kuksenok, Oberlin College; Rachel Science. separation of words have already been near-perfect GPA. Lathbury, University of Virginia; Lucy’s taken up by researchers in Europe, Ainsley Lawson, University Toronto; research has which shows that these ideas are Runner Up, Male Award JaMia Moore, University of Arkansas focused on creating a mood classifier important and in the mainstream of Di Wang at Little Rock; Jamila Salari, for text—a system that identifies theoretical computer science. is a Senior University of British Columbia; the prevailing emotion conveyed After completing the work above, at Cornell Corietta Teshera-Sterne, Mount by a given section of text as anger, Elyot joined a separate research University Holyoke College; and Manasi Vartak, happiness, sadness, etc. This required project in the area of Combinatorics majoring in Worcester Polytechnic Institute. creating a computer learning system and Optimization, and produced Computer that could deal with sparse and interesting results on approximation Science. noisy training data. Following that, algorithms for NP-hard covering While Undergraduate Award Winners she has made significant progress in problems. In addition to possessing maintaining Continued on Page 4 Page 3

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Musings from the Chair Are We Fully Training Our Graduates? By Eric Grimson, CRA Board Chair

tizing and managing multiple time changed our requirements for all of do you do when confronted with demands, and communication skills. our undergraduates, installing a set an apparently unmotivated student? Of course, some of our best students of communications-intensive courses How do you deal with interpersonal have these skills: natural teachers, that all students must take, at least conflicts that could jeopardize your leaders, and facilitators. But perhaps one per year. research? How does your modus one of the reasons there are so few Many departments opted to aug- operandi help or limit you in different computer scientists as CEOs of major ment existing courses, for example, by situations? How would you communi- companies or presidents of universi- providing instruction and feedback cate successfully with that key donor ties (there are exceptions of course!) on report writing in laboratory- or who thinks very differently from is because we as educators don’t project-intensive courses. We opted, you?” (Quoted from the MIT Faculty sufficiently refine or encourage the however, for a different perspective— Newsletter, Vol. XVIII No. 5, May/ non-technical skills that are essential we created a course explicitly about June 2006.) To address these chal- to success in leadership roles. And communication, tackling topics such lenges, one of my colleagues created a while not every newly hired faculty as: how does one form a model of the course to provide training for junior member will aspire to academic audience and use that to guide oral faculty—a course that has helped many Many institutions are about to leadership, even average young faculty communication; how does one send to better run their groups, communi- head into recruiting season, during members can benefit from skills that email without annoying the recipient; cate with their peers, and train their which we carefully scour applications, will improve their ability to run their how does one create and deliver an students to refine their own leader- statements of research interest, letters group, teach their students, and com- elevator pitch; how does one respond ship skills. of reference, and sample publications, municate their ideas. to challenging questions; how does The point of these examples (and looking to identify that great candi- This is not to imply that our com- one conduct a negotiation; and so on. of course many other institutions date who is going to boost our institu- munity fails to pay attention to this More formally, the outcomes of the have incorporated similar efforts) is to tion’s productivity and reputation for issue. Many institutions have tackled course state that upon completion stu- illustrate a broader issue. As research the next 40 years. the problem, providing seminars on dents will have learned how to: criti- institutions, we understandably focus For our own students hitting the developing these skills or leading cally evaluate technical presentations; on training our students to succeed market, we all spend time honing discussion groups with graduat- architect technical presentations; within what we perceive to be the con- their research skills, helping them ing students on ways to manage present technical material to different straints of a research career. But we craft their job talk, and providing research groups. But I suspect that audiences at different levels of detail; should not ignore the non-scientific advice on how to get through the more attention to this topic would give and receive constructive feedback; and non-technical, but equally impor- rounds of interviews with senior enhance the ability of our graduates and communicate more effectively in tant, aspects of a research leader— faculty if they are headed onto the to lead future institutions. a professional setting. someone who can communicate with academic market, or with professional Two examples from my own institu- While students in initial versions a wide range of audiences, mediate recruiters if they are headed to indus- tion illustrate possible approaches, of the course questioned its value, conflicts, and manage groups, as well try. Many of us think of those research though of course there are many other claiming that such “soft skills” were as articulating and executing exciting skills as critical, and separately we options and many other institutions of little value, current students get the new research directions. And if we do hope that the job talk will be polished also have developed solutions. Like point—they see the impact of these this, perhaps in a few years we will no enough to give a hiring institution many institutions, we regularly survey skills in lining up summer intern- longer lament the lack of corporate some confidence that our student will our alumni and alumnae, seeking ships or jobs upon graduation, and in and policy leadership with a sound develop into a solid teacher. insights into what skills have served fostering professional growth. computational background. While we often send our students them well in their careers and how While communication skills can out with great research credentials, well we helped develop those skills. always benefit from refinement, there Eric Grimson is the Bernard Gordon what we don’t do as well, however, is Several years ago, we found that com- are other soft skills that are equally Professor of Medical Engineering and to provide training and experiential munication was deemed essential by important, especially for young faculty head of the Electrical Engineering and opportunities for developing the our alumni/alumnae, but we were members or industrial researchers. Computer Science Department at MIT. ❚ “softer” skills: leadership, interper- not doing a particularly good job in Examples of issues that confront a sonal mediation, teamwork, priori- instilling those skills. In response, we young faculty member include: “What

Undergraduate Award Winners from Page 3 Department Chairs and

Honorable Mentions, Male Gabriel Martinez, Virginia Lab/Center Directors Ali Assaf, McGill University; Tech; Sajid Omar Mehmood, Stephen Bach, Georgetown Princeton University; David S. CRA Conference at Snowbird University; Brandon Blakeley, Noble, Jr., University of Virginia; University of Texas at Austin; Gabriel Oleg Ovchinnikov, University of MARK the DATES! — July 18-20, 2010 — Charette, McGill University; Jesse Tennessee; Jordan Rhee, UC San Cohen, Harvard University; Yi Diego; Garett Ridge, University See Draft Program on pp. 23-24 Ding, University of Massachusetts, of Louisville; Daniel Ritchie, UC Amherst; Daniel Eisenberg, Berkeley; Alejandra Vega, University Carnegie Mellon University; Adam of Texas at El Paso; and John Wright, Ernst, Princeton University; Ethan University of Texas at Austin. Fast, University of Virginia; William This year’s selection committee Hamilton, Texas A&M University; included Richard Waters (Mitsubishi CRA Service Awards 2010 Robert Hendry, Hobart and William Electric Research Labs), Chair; Smith Colleges; Jonathan Jenkins, Michelle Craig (University of Toronto); Distinguished Service Award Lafayette College; Sam Kerr, Purdue Ann Gates (University of Texas at El University; Eric Kimbrel, University Paso); Eric Grimson (MIT); and Hank A. Nico Habermann Award of Washington; Boyan Li, University Korth (Lehigh University). ❚ of Wisconsin, Madison; Cedric Yen Yu Lin, University of British Nominations Due: January 29, 2010 Columbia; Christopher Louie, UC San Diego; Barry Lumpkin, Arizona Details: http://www.cra.org State University;

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Discovery and Innovation in Health IT By Susan L. Graham and Erwin P. Gianchandani

On October 29-30, 2009, ninety- encies within the healthcare arena. Web-based communication standards be robust in the face of uncertainty seven people gathered at the Parc 55 Their backgrounds spanned robot- and protocols, facilitating improved and incompleteness. Access to that Hotel in San Francisco, CA, for the ics, imaging, mobility and sensing, process flows for patients, provid- information must be contextual “Discovery and Innovation in Health decision support systems, electronic ers, and caregivers. Feied described and use-driven. It must be easily IT” workshop (see: www.cra.org/ccc/ health records, privacy and security, “five forces” that would alter the and quickly understood. It must healthit.php). This invitation-only genomics, data mining and analysis, healthcare landscape: truly definitive protect privacy, while not hiding event, co-sponsored by several federal social and behavioral science, and tests; systems biology approaches to what is needed for the situation. agencies and non-profit organizations, human-computer interaction. unraveling the complexity of biologi- The evolution of healthcare and sought—through a series of plenary These diverse research interests cal interactions; improved imaging the advances in information tech- and breakout sessions—to explore and were apparent during the workshop’s techniques; evidence-based medicine; nology, broadly construed, create define fundamental research chal- plenary talks. William Stead, M.D., and true data liquidity. the need and also the opportunity lenges and opportunities in using and Latanya Sweeney, Ph.D., led off Later in the day, Eric Horvitz, for both long-term and short-term information technology to improve the meeting. Stead, the Chief Strategy M.D./Ph.D., a Principal Researcher research. During the final session, the health and healthcare. and Information Officer as well as a at Microsoft Research and a co- participants discussed some of the In co-sponsoring the workshop, Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt founder of Microsoft’s Healthcare factors (apart from the obvious need the National Science Foundation University, summarized the results Solutions group, gave a short presen- for funding) that would facilitate (NSF), Office of the National Co- and recommendations of a National tation to lead off the final session. research progress. The needs include ordinator for Health Information Research Council report on “Com- Horvitz demonstrated the promise of the availability of publicly available Technology (ONC), National Insti- putational Technology for Effective predictive modeling, including learn- de-identified data sets, open research tute of Standards and Technology Healthcare: Immediate Steps and ing models from the large amounts infrastructures, for instance, for (NIST), National Library of Medi- Strategic Directions” that he co-edit- of data being generated, to inform comprehensive simulations, mecha- cine (NLM), Agency for Healthcare ed earlier this year. Stead illustrated decision-making in healthcare. He de- nisms for the migration of results Research and Quality (AHRQ), key research challenges, including scribed a new advisory tool that helps to deployment, lowering of legal Computing Community Consor- patient-centered cognitive support, inform clinicians’ decisions on wheth- barriers to research, and appropri- tium (CCC), and American Medical modeling, automation, data sharing er to discharge a patient from the ate forums to report the results of Informatics Association (AMIA) and collaboration, data management emergency room on the basis of the this multi-disciplinary research. A asked leading computer scientists, at scale, and automated capture of probability of that patient “bouncing major challenge is to circumvent the medical practitioners, systems engi- patient-doctor interactions. Sweeney, back,” i.e., being readmitted to the cultural differences in research styles neers, and social scientists spanning Distinguished Career Professor of hospital with a new diagnosis within and research evaluation and to enable academia, industry, and govern- Computer Science, Technology, and a certain time window (days or weeks) federal agencies with health IT-related ment to identify mutual interests in Policy at Carnegie Mellon Univer- in the future. interests to strengthen their ability health IT, as they relate to near- and sity’s School of Computer Science, While the workshop covered a to support meaningful collaboration long-term challenges and solutions; and a member of the Federal Health wide variety of topics, several themes and to lower the barriers for research- and to define a range of “model” Information Technology Policy Com- ultimately emerged: ers to work together. proof-of-concept, integrative systems mittee, described research problems • Both technical and non-technical that might serve as motivating and for computer science and information factors are causing healthcare to Susan Graham, Ph.D., (graham@ unifying forces to drive fundamental technology in the context of a nation- undergo major changes. Many cs.berkeley.edu) is Pehong Chen research in health IT and accelerate al health information infrastructure. aspects of healthcare are shifting Distinguished Professor Emerita and the translation of research outcomes In particular, she articulated steps to the home, and family members Professor in the Graduate School in the into products and services. to data consolidation, analytics, and are taking on an increasing role as Department of Electrical Engineering and The workshop was structured as a privacy/confidentiality. caregivers. Individuals are taking Computer Science at the University of series of four half-day sessions. The William Rouse, Ph.D., Professor on a greater role in managing their California, Berkeley, and was co-chair of first three sessions were comprised of of Industrial & Systems Engineer- own health. Professional caregiv- the workshop organizing committee. two plenary talks followed by small- ing at Georgia Tech, and Dietrich ers are offered the promise of Erwin Gianchandani, Ph.D., is group (about 10 people per group) Stephan, Ph.D., the co-founder and increased benefit from IT, but the an American Association for the breakout discussions in which par- Chief Science Officer at the personal- reality of inefficiencies and barriers Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science ticipants defined particular research ized genomics company Navigenics, make their jobs more difficult. The & Technology Policy Fellow in the challenges, multiple lines of attack, addressed the workshop at the start business of healthcare delivery is Directorate for Computer & Information and possible test-beds or demonstra- of the second session. Rouse called becoming increasingly complex. Science & Engineering at the National tion systems. At the conclusion of healthcare a “complex adaptive • The emerging technologies that Science Foundation, and helped with each session, the groups delivered system” and charted a systems-based can be used to improve health and planning of the workshop. ❚ short presentations summarizing their approach focused on information healthcare are rich and diverse. conversations. (Videos of the plenary management and the creation of Massive amounts of data about talks and report-outs will be avail- incentives and challenges that would individuals, about the biol- able at www.cra.org/ccc/healthit.php motivate stakeholders to provide qual- ogy of disease and wellness, and shortly.) Workshop organizers selected ity, affordable care. Stephan placed about treatments and outcomes the group participants for the first two his work at Navigenics, “the first fully are becoming available in elec- sessions, opting to assemble people integrated entity to make ‘person- tronic form. Increasingly powerful with diverse backgrounds within each alized medicine’ a reality,” in the techniques for data analysis are group, while participants self-selected context of a future in which the latest emerging. Sophisticated imaging CRA-W the groups for the third session. knowledge is applied to prevent, delay techniques, sensing and monitor- The groups were asked to ap- onset, or cure disease. He described ing technologies, and communica- Anita Borg proach their discussions by consider- embedding one’s genome into the tion infrastructures are providing ing the “perspectives” of patients and electronic medical record, with role- access to specialized information Early Career caregivers during the first session; based access to the genomic data. in real-time. Robotic and speech “processes” such as prevention, On the second morning of the technologies are enhancing human Award prediction, diagnosis, intervention, workshop, Richard Bucholz, M.D., capabilities. Understanding of rehabilitation, and monitoring dur- Professor and Director of Neurosur- human behavior, awareness, incen- Nomination Deadline: ing the second session; and their own gery at the Saint Louis University tives, and cognition is advancing. research interests during the third ses- School of Medicine, and Craig Feied, • Both integration and specializa- February 15, 2010 sion. The fourth half-day session pro- M.D., Chief Strategy Officer for tion will play important roles. vided an opportunity for workshop Microsoft Research’s Health Solu- Health information, be it about an participants to synthesize the research tions Group, provided “out-of-the- individual, a disease, or a therapy, Details: opportunities defined throughout the box” ideas to stimulate participants’ and be it longitudinal or immedi- earlier parts of the meeting and frame creativity. Bucholz presented his ate, needs to combine data from http://www.cra-w.org/borg a call-to-action for the future. view of a future medical delivery multiple sources, multiple scales, The workshop was comprised system in which interoperable devices and multiple representations. It of individuals carefully selected to would unobtrusively, inexpensively, must have high integrity, it must represent the wide variety of interests, and efficiently collect, store, display, be comprehensive, it must be expertise areas, needs, and constitu- and exchange information through integrated over time, and it must Page 5

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classrooms. Whether it’s additional with science fairs, tutor a student, college students intending to major Don’t limit yourselves to lab equipment, personal mentoring chaperone field trips, provide in computer science declined again in computing classes. Computational from a scientist, tech support, help internship opportunities, donate 2008, to a 25-year low. The CS/10K thinking is everywhere; it’s in K-8 as with a lesson plan, or just an extra set materials, help with lesson plans, Project (see http://www.csedweek. well as high school. Science teachers of hands for a class project, teachers or be an advisor for an after-school org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ often want help in introducing know what they need to improve program.The hope is that for many ACM-Ed-Week-CS10K.pdf) expects technology into their classrooms. their students’ hands-on learning of these volunteers, this will be just to change this in the long term, but Help them arrange activities using experiences, but often they do not the first step—or the next step—in an there are things that you can do right that technology, but choose activities know how, or do not have the time, ongoing involvement with their local now using National Lab Day as that build computational thinking to access the extra support or that schools and teachers your entrée. skills. Don’t limit yourself to needed resource. Teachers will set More than 200 professional Find out whether your local classrooms either. Lots of what gets the Lab Day agenda, organizing organizations—including CRA, high school is participating in Lab taught gets taught outside of school. and coordinating their own set of ACM, and IEEE-USA—have joined Day. If not, encourage them to do Consider working with providers of local volunteers. They will begin by this effort, along with the major so. If they are participating, what informal education as well. describing proposed projects on the teacher organizations—including do they need? (Make sure that you If you are a faculty member, National Lab Day site. Volunteers the Computer Science Teachers follow the teachers’ lead!) It could encourage your students to get will respond with offers of time, Association (CSTA). It’s not be help with a new computer lab: involved. K-12 service learning expertise, and resources. Later both enough, though, to have these What should they buy? How can experiences teach valuable skills to groups will use the site to find endorsements. As individuals in they get it installed? What software the college students who participate resources, schedule meetings and the computing research community, do they need? What will they need as well as the students they serve. events, keep track of funds raised, we have the responsibility to in terms of tech support? It could be This can be as simple as having and stay in touch. get involved, and we have a big that teachers want help introducing the college students field questions Volunteers will engage in activities incentive: education in computing is new activities or software. Can you during a lab time. If you work to strengthen laboratory experiences in much worse shape than in any of introduce them to CS Unplugged? for a company, get your company in their local schools or in outreach the other STEM disciplines. How about Scratch or Alice? Can to encourage and support the to other high-need schools. They Many college-bound high school you get them started in robotics? Can participation of its employees. might, for example, install software students do not have the opportunity you help them with cell phone apps? Don’t consider this to be a one- or identify useful web resources, to take even a single rigorous, Perhaps the teachers are interested in shot volunteer effort. Consider it fix or find equipment, implement academic computer science course. curriculum redesign. Can you point to be the beginning of an ongoing hands-on projects, start a fundraising Perhaps as a result, HERI data show them to resources and expertise? relationship between you and your effort to buy needed supplies, help that the percentage of incoming Can you advise on lesson plans that local teacher, school, or organization. highlight computational thinking and As you become more aware of the problem-solving? Can you help with constraints of the school environment specific activities in your own area and the teachers become more Summer 2010 of expertise? Can you be on call as confident of you as a resource, your they wrestle with new material? Often partnership will grow and have an Paid Summer Research Internships teachers need experts who can convey increasing impact. the range of application and promise Start now by registering at the for Underrepresented Students of computing. Can you show their National Lab Day website (www. kids what’s new and exciting? Can nationallabday.org). ❚ Via CRA-W/CDC DREU you help the kids understand the link between computation and their Jan Cuny (mail2jec at gmail dot com) is Application Deadline: February 15, 2010 real-world interests? Can you provide Program Director of the National Science an internship or research experience Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Details: parasol.tamu.edu/dreu/ for a student? Can you let them job Computing program. shadow? Can you help them develop a science fair project?

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how expanding both your research major conferences. The CMW-R major. I met a few women doing award- intelligent women working or studying in and your contacts are important addresses the needs of those in, winning research in parallel computing, a computer science related field.” to success. While it is natural for or aspiring to, research faculty and people that had worked for decades It is likely that all the participants academic researchers to form close positions. The CMW-E serves at the likes of HP and Lockheed Martin, have similar stories of inspiration, working relationships with members those in undergraduate education. along with many young women just a few learning and new resolve, and that of other institutions, it is also The CMW-L Workshop addresses years older than me who were already collectively strengthens the computer important for members of industrial the needs of those in industrial or pursuing PhDs, and I have begun to think science pipeline for all of us. ❚ and government research labs to stay government research labs. a lot more seriously about what I would connected with the external CRA-W, with sponsorship from like to do when I graduate because of Dr. Joann J. Ordille is a Consulting research community. AT&T Research Labs, also hosted the conference. It was also just incredibly Member of the Technical Staff at Avaya Professor Emerita Carla Schlatter a luncheon for those interested in reassuring to find such a vast network of Labs Research. Ellis (Duke University), and Professor industrial and government research Danyluk (Williams College) helped labs. This annual luncheon provides a participants identify ways to balance unique opportunity for lab members the demands in their personal and to meet, address common concerns, professional lives. Dr. Dilma da and recommend programs to both Distributed Research Silva (IBM T.J. Watson Research CRA-W and the Grace Hopper DREU: Center) and Professor Nancy Amato Conference. Experiences for Undergraduates (Texas A&M) guided participants in Ms. Elizabeth Kierstead, an (formerly the DMP, Distributed Mentor Project) preparing for promotion, both tenure undergraduate from Columbia, in academic institutions and more perhaps summed it up best when Application Deadline: senior positions in research labs. she said: February 15, 2010 The early career workshop “Grace Hopper was an incredible provided a small subset of three experience for me, as it was a great way Details: Career Mentoring Workshops to connect with female computer science (CMW) (www.cra-w.org/ professionals further along in their careers, http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/dmp/index.php mentorWrkshp) held periodically by and to explore the array of options open to CRA-W, often in conjunction with me as an undergraduate computer science Page 6

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there was some significant concern community and Congress shared, and This same bandwidth constraint For a full breakdown of all the final in the science community about has proposed a number of new efforts also affected the movement of a spending numbers, and continuing the levels included for DARPA in designed to re-engage DARPA with number of other research-related updates on the progress of bills of both the House and Senate versions university researchers, we argued. We pieces of legislation. In May, the interest to the computing research of the bill, but particularly for the did not want to see this new approach House passed the Networking and community, see CRA’s Computing Senate levels. Both the House and derailed or hamstrung by the proposed Information Technology Research Research Policy Blog at http://www.cra. Senate included significant cuts to reduction, and we joined with other and Development Act (H.R. 2020), org/blog. the President’s request for DARPA— members of the community to weigh a bill designed to reauthorize much the House trimmed $200 million in with Congress in an attempt to of the existing federal Networking from the request, the Senate about mitigate the reduction. That effort and IT R&D program, and enact End Notes $500 million. In the Senate’s case, proved only partially successful, as some of the recommendations of the 1Each reference to FY 2009 budgets appropriations staffers indicated they the final bill funds DARPA at a $246 President’s Council of Advisors for omits the substantial increases that did not feel that the agency, given million reduction from the requested Science and Technology, stemming year provided by the American its recent history of under-spending level for FY 2010. from their review of the NITRD Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which its appropriation—a behavior linked Overall, defense basic research program.2 However, the bill has provided a one-time, though quite to the agency’s previous leadership— (6.1 research, in DOD parlance), will yet to be considered in the Senate, significant, funding influx to these warranted an increase in FY 2010, increase $1.8 billion in FY 2010, an primarily because of time constraints. science agencies. Comparisons are and instead used that money to fund increase of 10.1 percent over FY 2009. In November, the House Science and to the non-ARRA, baseline FY 09 increases elsewhere in their bill. CRA, The final resolution of the FY Technology Committee passed the funding. along with many other groups in the 2010 appropriations process was Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2For more detail on H.R. 2020, see science advocacy community, reacted delayed considerably as debate 2009 (H.R. 4061)3, which reauthorizes http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/ strongly to this reduction. Under in both the House and Senate much of the federal cyber security archives/000735.html new leadership, the agency appears to over comprehensive health care research program. However, that bill 3For more detail on H.R. 4061, see be making a serious effort to reverse reform legislation consumed has yet to make it to the floor of the http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/ many of the policies that generated nearly all the available legislative House for a vote and faces a very archives/000748.html the concerns that the university “bandwidth” throughout the fall. uncertain future in the Senate.

Transitions, Awards, and Honors NSF-Sponsored Academic Workshop for CRA is pleased to welcome Snowbird 2010 committees. five new members to its Board of George Cybenko (Dartmouth Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities and Directors. Sebastian Thrun, Professor College) who has represented of Computer Science & Electrical IEEE-CS since 2005, is currently People with Disabilities at the Level of Engineering and Director of the a member of CRA’s Government Stanford AI Lab, was appointed to Affairs and Distinguished Service Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, complete the term of Peter Lee who Awards committees. resigned from the board when he Among Computer Society and Senior Doctoral Student assumed a position at DARPA. members recently elevated to Fellow Robert Schreiber, Assistant Director by IEEE were CCC Council members of the Exascale Computing Lab at David Kaeli (Northeastern University) Friday, March 5, 2010 to Sunday, March 7, 2010 Hewlett Packard Labs, has been and Robin Murphy (Texas A&M Hotel ZaZa in Houston, Texas appointed SIAM’s representative. University). Also honored was CRA http://www.hotelzazahouston.com/ Carla Brodley, Professor of Computer Board member Margaret Martonosi Science at Tufts University and of Princeton University. Our co-chair of CRA-Women, was congratulations to these honorees Deadline for Participant Applications - Friday, January 15, 2010 appointed AAAI’s representative and all other members of the CS http://apply2.cse.tamu.edu/AcademicCareerWorkshop/ in July. Alva Couch, Associate community who were honored by Professor of Computer Science at IEEE (see: http://www.ieee.org/ The Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization Tufts University, became the USENIX web/membership/fellows/Societies/ of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Computing representative in July. Effective January COMP.html). Research Association (CRA), and the IEEE Computer Society 1, 2010, Jane Prey, Senior Research Stephen Seidman, Dean of (IEEE-CS), and the Center on Minorities and People with Disabilities in Program Manager at Microsoft the College of Science at Texas IT (CMD-IT) are organizing the third annual Academic Workshop for Research, became one of two IEEE-CS State University, has been named Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities and People with Disabilities with representatives on the board. President of the Computing Sciences funding from NSF Broadening Participation in Computing program. CRA appreciates the contributions Accreditation Board (CSAB) for The BPC Demonstration grant provides funding for participant travel, of members who have completed 2009-11. lodging, and meeting logistics. their service on the Board. Marie Francine Berman, Vice President The goal of the workshop is to provide unique, tailored experiences desJardins, University of Maryland, for Research at Rensselaer Polytechnic for underrepresented ethnic minorities and people with disabilities at has represented AAAI since 2006. Institute, received the inaugural the assistant- and associate-level faculty and senior doctoral students Peter Honeyman, University of Ken Kennedy Award from the IEEE about the academic career ladder. It is well known that mentoring Michigan, completed his term (2008- Computer Society and the Association activities are critical for successful promotions in the professoriate. 09) as the USENIX representative. for Computing Machinery at the Such activities are especially needed in the field of computing, where Long-term SIAM representative SCO9 Conference in November. Dr. the number in the targeted groups at a given institution is usually very Bobby Schnabel (Indiana University), Berman received the award for her small. The workshop will include panels of diverse senior faculty talking who joined the board in 1999, leadership in building national-scale ❚ about the tenure and promotion process, launching a research program, continues to be active as a member cyberinfrastructure. professionalism, and a detailed session on proposal writing. The work- of the Government Affairs and shop organizers include Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M University), Bryant York (Portland State University), Illya Hicks (Rice University), Domingo CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women Conference Rodriguez (University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez), and Richard Ladner (University of Washington). April 23-24, 2010 We invite candidates to complete an on-line application at the fol- lowing URL: http://apply2.cse.tamu.edu/AcademicCareerWorkshop/ Bellevue, WA by Friday, January 15, 2010. Participants will be notified by Monday, January 25, 2010. Funding will be provided for all participants. Application Deadline: Questions about the program can be sent to Valerie Taylor, taylor@cse. tamu.edu. February 1, 2010 http://www.cra-w.org/gradcohort

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Bowdoin College opportunity employer. We encourage California Institute of Technology Columbia University Computer Science Department inquiries from candidates who will Divisions of EAS and HSS Department of Computer Science Tenure-Track Position enrich and contribute to the cultural, Tenure-Track Position Faculty Position The Computer Science Department socio-economic, and ethnic diversity of The faculty of the Division of The Department of Computer at Bowdoin College invites applications our college. Bowdoin College does not Engineering and Applied Science and Science at Columbia University in for a tenure-track position at the rank of discriminate on the basis of age, race, the Division of the Humanities and New York City invites applications for Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2010. creed, color, religion, marital status, Social Sciences of the California Institute tenured or tenure-track faculty positions. A Ph.D. in computer science is required gender, sexual orientation, veteran of Technology invite applications for a Appointments at all levels, including (advanced ABD will be considered). status, national origin, or disability tenure track position in computer science assistant professor, associate professor Preference will be given to candidates status in employment, or in our and economics. Examples of research and full professor, will be considered. whose research interests include education programs. areas of interest include multi-agent Priority themes for the department software — especially systems — and Bowdoin College recognizes that systems, game theory, mechanism design, include Computer Systems, Software, complement the Department’s current recruiting and retaining faculty may and distributed systems, although the Artificial Intelligence, Theory and research areas of theory, algorithms, and involve considerations of spouses and quality of the work is more important Computational Biology. Candidates artificial intelligence. domestic partners. To that end, where than the area. We are seeking highly who work in specific technical areas The successful candidate will be possible, the College will attempt to qualified candidates who are committed including, but not limited to, Computer expected to share with all the members accommodate and respond creatively to a career in research and teaching. Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, of the department in the teaching of to the needs of spouses and partners of The term of initial appointment is and Simulation and Animation, with introductory and mid-level courses, and members of the faculty. normally four years, if untenured, and is research programs that can significantly to teach upper-level courses in their area contingent upon completion of the Ph.D. impact the above priority themes of research. The regular teaching load is Bucknell University For a list of documents required and full are particularly welcome to apply. two courses per semester. Department Department of Computer Science instructions on how to apply on-line, Candidates doing research at the members are strongly committed Assistant Professor please visit: interface of computer sciences and the to providing research opportunities Applications are invited for a tenure http://www.eas.caltech.edu/positions/ life sciences and the physical sciences are for undergraduate students and the track entry-level (up to four years of full- cs-econ/index.html also encouraged to apply. successful candidate will be expected time teaching experience with a recent Questions about the applications Candidates must have a Ph.D degree, to guide independent projects and to Ph.D.) assistant professor position in process may be directed to: search@ or DES, and are expected to establish actively encourage student involvement computer science beginning mid-August cs.caltech.edu. a strong research program and excel in their research. 2010. Outstanding candidates in all areas Caltech is an Equal Opportunity/ in teaching both undergraduate and The Computer Science Department will be considered. We are particularly Affirmative Action Employer. Women, graduate courses. Positions at Assistant shares a science building with the interested in candidates whose research minorities, veterans, and disabled persons Professor rank require demonstrated Mathematics and Physics Departments. area is in AI, data mining, bioinformatics, are encouraged to apply. potential for scholarly success and Departmental lab facilities include an or databases. Candidates must have teaching contributions. Positions at iMac lab for introductory courses, a lab completed their Ph.D. requirements in College of William and Mary the Associate Professor rank require with high-end Mac Pro machines for computer science or a closely related Computer Science Department candidates to have a demonstrated record intermediate and advanced courses, and field before the beginning of employment Faculty Position Assistant Professor of scholarly and teaching achievement a robotics lab featuring 16 Sony Aibos, at Bucknell. A strong commitment to We invite applications for a tenure- and have a national reputation in the 4 Aldebaran Naos, and 2 Pioneer DXs. excellence in teaching and scholarship is track assistant professor position in field of their specialization. At the Further information about the college required. The successful candidate must Computer Science for Fall 2010. We are Professor level, candidates are expected to and the department is available at be able to participate in the teaching interested in individuals with research be scholars and teachers who are widely http://www.bowdoin.edu and questions of required core courses and be able to expertise in all areas of computer recognized internationally for their can be e-mailed to Stephen Majercik, develop elective courses in the candidate’s science. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in distinction in their chosen field. The the chair of the department, at area of expertise. computer science or a related field at the Department is especially interested in [email protected]. Bucknell is a highly selective time of appointment, must have a strong qualified candidates who can contribute, Bowdoin is now accepting electronic private university emphasizing quality research record, and should have an through their research, teaching, and/or submissions. Please visit https://careers. undergraduate education in engineering interest in teaching. service, to the diversity and excellence of bowdoin.edu to submit a cover letter, and in liberal arts and sciences. The B.S. The College of William and Mary the academic community. a curriculum vitae, a statement of programs in computer science are ABET consistently ranked in the elite group Our department of 34 tenure-track research plans, a statement on teaching accredited. The computing environment is of the Best National Universities faculty and 1 lecturer attracts excellent philosophy, and contact information Linux-based. More information about the Doctoral by U.S. News and World Ph.D. students, virtually all of whom are for three references who will provide department can be found at: Report has committed to a multi-year fully supported by research grants. The letters of recommendation. Review of http://www.bucknell.edu/ effort to strengthen its computer science department has active ties with major applications will begin December 15, ComputerScience/ research program. industry partners including Adobe, 2009 and will continue until the position Applications will be considered as The department currently consists of Autodesk, Disney, Dreamworks, Nvidia, is filled. received and recruiting will continue until fourteen faculty members who support Sony, Weta and also to the nearby Founded in 1794, Bowdoin is one the position is filled. Candidates are asked B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs. More research laboratories of AT&T, Google, of the oldest and finest coeducational, to submit a cover letter, CV, graduate information about the department and IBM (T.J. Watson), NEC, Siemens, residential liberal arts colleges in the transcript, a statement of teaching university can be obtained at: Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. country. Bowdoin’s reputation rests philosophy and research interests, and the http://www.cs.wm.edu Columbia University is one of the leading on the excellence of its faculty and contact information for three references. Applicants should submit a current research universities in the United States, students, its intimate size, strong sense Please submit your application to resume, research and teaching statements, and New York City is one of the cultural, of community, genuine socioeconomic http://jobs.bucknell.edu/ the names of at least three references, financial, and communications capitals of diversity, and treasured links with the by searching for the “Computer Science and supporting documents they consider the world. Columbia’s tree-lined campus people, history, and natural beauty of Faculty Position”. most relevant. We prefer that the is located in Morningside Heights on the Maine. Bowdoin’s diverse student body Please direct any questions to Professor application materials be submitted as Upper West Side. comprises 29% students of color, 3% Xiannong Meng of the Computer Science PDF attachments in email to 09search@ Applicants should apply online at: International students and approximately Department at [email protected]. CS.WM.EDU. If necessary, hard copy https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/ 15% first generation college students. Bucknell University values a diverse may be submitted to: applicants/Central?quickFind=52306 With some 185 FTE faculty, Bowdoin has college community and is committed Faculty Search Committee and should submit electronically the a 9:1 student-to-faculty ratio, and 69% of to excellence through diversity in its Department of Computer Science following: curriculum-vitae including a all Bowdoin classes have fewer than 20 faculty, staff and students. An Equal The College of William & Mary publication list, a statement of research students. This academic year Bowdoin Opportunity/Affirmative Action P.O. Box 8795 interests and plans, a statement of enrolled slightly over 1,700 students Employer, Bucknell University especially Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 teaching interests, names with contact from 49 states and 26 foreign countries. welcomes applications from women and Review of applications will begin information of three references, and Bowdoin is located in Brunswick, a minority candidates. December 15 and continue until the up to four pre/reprints. Applicants can vibrant community on the Maine coast position is filled. The College is an EEO/ consult www.cs.columbia.edu for more two hours from Boston. AA employer. information about the department. Bowdoin College is committed to Professional Opportunities equality and diversity and is an equal Continued on Page 10 Page 8

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Successful candidates can look forward to internationally competitive remuneration, and assistance for relocation to Singapore.

To apply for the above mentioned positions, applicants should visit our job portal at: www.su.edu.sg, where you can also find more comprehensive information about the University and types of programmes we offer.

Enquiries can also be addressed to Tommy Lee at [email protected]

founding head of Pillar for architecture, inforMation systeMs, engineering and Product Singapore University of Technology and Design (SU) is looking for foundation pillars to build our departments on.

As a Founding Head of the Pillar, our search criterion is nothing short of the best and most reputable in the field. Shortlisted candidates must minimally have an excellent doctoral qualification and be an international award recipient for academic and research contributions to the relevant Be Part of the founding faculty of specialised field, with publications in renowned and reputable leaders and inventors journals recognised by the international research community. The singapore university of technology and design (su) will admit its first intake of students in 2011. The University’s The final selection for the Founding Head of Pillar will be based on: programmes will initially be based on four pillars leading to • Your current senior academic position in a renowned/ separate degree programmes tentatively named (i) Architecture prestigious University and Sustainable Design, (ii) Engineering Product Design, (iii) Engineering Systems and System Design, and (iv) Information • Your successful history in attracting funding for research Engineering and Design. Design as an academic discipline cuts across all four pillars and will be the framework for novel • Your proven track record in managing research projects research and educational programmes. • Your ability to leverage diverse teams and effectively manage people and resources The University is seeking exceptional individuals who embrace its educational and research focus on technology and design. • Your passion to share SU’s vision on the ‘Big D’ approach, The qualifications for the position include: an earned doctorate focusing on the art and science of ‘design’ within your in Architecture, any field in engineering, or basic sciences field of specialisation and social sciences, a strong commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, a demonstrated • Your appetite for entrepreneurship and risk taking record of or potential for scholarly research, and excellent • Your ability to innovate and create an environment that communication skills. promotes creativity and experimentation

Singapore is Asia’s powerhouse for research and technology, • Your ability to inspire and motivate young minds to given its infrastructure, industry diversity and economic become leaders and inventors of tomorrow development. By joining the University you will be immersed in unparalleled educational and innovative research activities, Please send your resume detailing the above mentioned criteria have the opportunity to work closely with outstanding to Ms Jaclyn Lee, Director of Human Resources, students, faculty colleagues and industry leaders, as well as be at [email protected] able to pursue your academic ambitions.

faculty MeMBers We invite applications for an interdisciplinary, faculty appointment at the Assistant or untenured Associate Professor level. Faculty duties include teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, research, supervision of student research SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY and advising on undergraduate student projects. In addition, the candidates will be expected to develop and sustain a OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN strong research programme.

For more information about us, please visit www.su.edu.sg

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Professional Opportunities The position will close no sooner proprietary trading activities. We’re Research on Algorithms and Architectures in the natural sciences and/or scientific than February 9, 2010, and will remain a global investment and technology for Computational Biochemistry programming, exceptional quantitative open until filled. Columbia University development firm with approximately Extraordinarily gifted computer abilities, and superb communication skills. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative US $29 billion in aggregate investment scientists, systems architects, electrical The group’s current research Action employer. capital and a decidedly different approach engineers, and systems software activities are aimed at the discovery and to doing business. The application of professionals are sought to join a rapidly development of innovative scientific Cornell University advanced technology is an integral part growing New York-based research group techniques to direct unprecedented Department of Computer Science of virtually everything we do, from pursuing an ambitious, long-term project computational power toward the Faculty Positions developing computationally intensive aimed at achieving major scientific solution of key problems in the fields of Multiple faculty positions are available strategies for trading in securities advances in the field of biochemistry and biomolecular simulation and design. This at Cornell’s Department of Computer markets around the globe to designing a fundamentally transforming the process research effort is being financed by the Science. Candidates are invited to apply at supercomputer intended to fundamentally of drug discovery. D. E. Shaw group, a global investment all levels including tenured, tenure-track, transform the process of drug discovery. Among the group’s current and technology development firm with or lecturer. Developers at the firm work on a variety research activities is a project aimed at more than US $30 billion in aggregate We are interested in applications from of interesting technical projects including developing a massively parallel special- investment capital. The project was any area of computer science, including real-time data analysis, distributed purpose supercomputer and innovative initiated by the firm’s founder, Dr. David artificial intelligence, computational system development, and the creation of mathematical and computational E. Shaw, and operates under his direct biology, databases, game design, tools for mathematical modeling. They techniques to direct unprecedented scientific leadership. graphics, machine learning, networking, also enjoy access to some of the most computational power toward the solution We are prepared to offer above-market programming languages, robotics, security, advanced computing resources in the of key scientific and technical problems compensation to candidates of truly scientific computing, systems, and theory world. If you’re interested in applying in the fields of molecular simulation and exceptional ability. Interested applicants of computation. your intellect to challenging problems of molecular design. Successful candidates should send a resume to cra-sa@career. To ensure full consideration, software architecture and engineering in a will be working closely with a number DEShawResearch.com applications should be received by stimulating, fast-paced environment, then of the world’s leading computational EOE December 15, 2009, but will be accepted we’d love to see your resume. chemists and biologists, and will have until all positions are filled. You can learn more about us and apply the opportunity to make fundamental Duke University Applicants should submit a curriculum online at: contributions within the fields of biology, Department of Computer Science vitae, brief statements of research and Full time: https://www.deshaw.com/ chemistry, and medicine. Tenure-Track Faculty Positions teaching interests through the web at recruit/jobs/Ad/CRA/Prog Serious candidates will have an The Department of Computer Science http://www.cs.cornell.edu/apply and Internship: exceptionally distinguished history at Duke University invites applications arrange to have at least three references https://www.deshaw.com/recruit/ of academic and/or industrial and nominations for tenure-track faculty uploaded on the Web. jobs/Ad/CRA/ProgIntern

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Professional Opportunities knowledge and skills that enable students Reporting to the Dean of the College latinamericangrid.org). Co-founded by perspective. In particular, we are seeking to make the most of IT as a powerful of Engineering and Computing, the IBM, and with 12 academic and industry candidates with a strong software systems tool for completing tasks and meeting Director is responsible for promoting partners sharing over 1,500 systems in background with an emphasis on building challenges in their respective subject area, excellence in interdisciplinary research an experimental grid, LA Grid brings secure systems to solve hard theoretical but with a special emphasis on methods, and teaching, mentoring faculty, together computer scientists, domain and applied problems. A record of concepts and principles which extend building research teams, administration experts, and industry experts to produce software releases and open source projects beyond short-lived trends. of School’s budgetary and personnel the next generation of leaders of the IT is desirable. Publications in top-tier In this regard, the Department of operations, and collaborating with the industry by synergistically combining conferences are sought. Computer Science is seeking someone community and industry. research, education and workforce Strong references and a PhD in with a sound education in IT, including a With a student enrollment of over development activities. It explores “society Computer Science or a related field is doctorate, on the one hand, and who can 39,000, FIU has achieved Carnegie critical” areas such as disaster mitigation, required or should be expected soon. demonstrate a high level of expertise in at Research University status (with high healthcare, and bioinformatics. Interested candidates should submit least one scientific area of application such research activity) and is one of the 25 FIU offers a competitive salary and their CV, a research statement, and at as biology or environmental sciences on largest universities in the nation. SCIS benefits package, and an excellent work least three names and contact information the other. Particular interest in teaching is the 6th largest computer science environment. of references to Dr. Anup Ghosh at at university level, as well as willingness to program in the nation and is a major Application review continues until the [email protected] via email with subject take on an above-average teaching load are school in the College of Engineering and position is filled. A letter of application, PostDoc. indispensable requirements for this post. Computing at FIU. SCIS has 32 faculty CV, statements of administrative, A very good knowledge of the German members who support its offerings of teaching, and research philosophies, The George Washington language is essential. BS (ABET accredited), MS, and PhD and a list of three references should be University Interested candidates are requested programs in Computer Science, BS/BA submitted to: Department of Computer Science to submit their electronic documents (in in IT, and MS in Telecommunications http://www.fiujobs.org Three Faculty Positions pdf format), including a CV and list of and Networking. The School serves Applications are especially encouraged The Department of Computer Science publications, online via www.jobs.ethz. approximately 1,150 undergraduates, 170 from members of under-represented at The George Washington University ch. Documents should reach the Head masters, and 90 doctoral students, and minorities, women and persons with is seeking applicants for three faculty of Department no later than February provides service courses to many students disabilities. FIU is an equal opportunity/ positions. The first is (A) a tenured 15th, 2010: ETH Zurich, Professor Jürg in various Engineering, Business, and equal access/ affirmative action employer senior position in security, at the rank of Gutknecht, Department of Computer Arts & Sciences departments. In 2008- and institution. Associate or Full Professor. The second Science, Clausiusstrasse 59, 8092 Zurich, 09, the SCIS received external funding www.fiu.edu/index.htm position is (B) a tenure-track position in Switzerland. in excess of $4.2M. The School’s IT staff the area systems security, and the third For further information, please contact operates and maintains research and FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. is (C) a tenure-track position in the area Professor Jürg Gutknecht by e-mail at instructional computing infrastructure Research Scientist of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on [email protected] (do not enclose any and 25 laboratories, including a 10GB FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. Robotics. Position B and C will be at the application documents). network backbone, virtualization-capable (FXPAL) provides multimedia and rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. data center, multimedia classrooms, and collaboration technology research for Fuji The rank for all positions will depend on Florida International University open graduate and undergraduate labs, Xerox Co., Ltd., a joint venture between experience. Successful candidates may (FIU) and IT hands-on teaching labs. Xerox Corporation of America and start as early as Fall 2010. School of Computing and Information The School’s faculty is involved FujiFilm of Japan. Basic Qualifications: All applicants Sciences in research areas including databases We have an immediate opening for must have a Ph.D degree in Computer Director Position (data mining, visualization, knowledge a Research Scientist eager to embrace Science or a closely related field. (A) Position number 45871: Florida discovery, GIS), software systems (high new challenges in cloud computing and Applicants to the tenured senior International University (FIU) invites performance computing and networking, distributed applications. Applications position in security must currently have applications for the position of Director large scale modeling simulation, include social networks, large scale data well-funded research programs, must of School of Computing and Information parallel and distributed systems, and mining, document management, media be a recognized scholar in the research Sciences (SCIS, www.cis.fiu.edu) in the adaptive, autonomic, pervasive, and processing, 3D mixed reality worlds, community, and must be prepared to College of Engineering and Computing to grid computing), software engineering and distributed collaboration. The take on a leading research role within begin on July 1, 2010. (architecture, design, verification, testing, preferred applicants will have extensive the department and in the field. (B and Candidates must have a doctorate component technology, and verification), experience with scalable internet C) ABD candidates may apply for the in Computer Science or a closely machine learning, telecommunications systems, database management systems, Assistant Professor rank, but they must related field, a reputation for academic and networking, security, health distributed programming tools, or complete their Ph.D degree by August and research excellence necessary for informatics, Bioinformatics, algorithms computer networks. 15, 2010. Applicants for the Assistant appointment as a tenured professor, and programming languages. Candidates should be interested in Professor rank must demonstrate a demonstrated leadership skills, One of the School’s signature working on practical applications in potential for developing an advanced management or supervisory experience, University/Industry partnership projects a collaborative setting and be able to research program and for attracting and a strong interest in working is the Latin American Grid (LA Grid, perform leading edge original research. significant research funding. Applicants with students and the community. pronounced “lah grid,” http://www. This position requires a Ph.D. in for the Associate Professor rank must Computer Science or related field, strong have well-established and well-funded programming skills, and an excellent research programs. All applicants must publication record. have demonstrated teaching excellence For more information about FXPAL, or potential at both undergraduate and please visit our website at www.fxpal.com. graduate levels To apply send resume to The George Washington University [email protected]. Please reference is the largest academic institution in The William and Gloria Jackson Endowed Professorship job code CRN-5 the nation’s capital with close access in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Entrepreneurship to many Federal funding agencies and Michigan Technological University invites applications from highly motivated, creative individuals for George Mason University research laboratories. The University the William and Gloria Jackson Endowed Professorship in electrical engineering, computer science, and Center for Secure Information Systems offers comprehensive programs of entrepreneurship. Applicants in areas of expertise that are forward-looking and cross traditional disciplinary Postdoctoral Position in Cyber Security undergraduate and graduate liberal arts boundaries are strongly encouraged to apply. This is an endowed position at the full professor level (tenure pos- sible at the time of appointment), with academic department or departments to be determined, created in support The Center for Secure Information studies as well as degrees in engineering, of Michigan Tech’s Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative (SFHI) in Computational Discovery and Innovation. Systems at GMU, established in 1990 in law, medicine, public health, education, The University seeks leadership for a proposed on-campus research center that brings together experts in electri- Fairfax, VA, is seeking highly qualified business and international affairs. cal engineering, computer engineering, and computer science, and promotes technology transfer of successful candidates for a postdoctoral position A private institution, GW prides research results. We envision a center that gives us new ways to think about computation and how computation might be applied and commercialized in critical technological areas as well as everyday life. Possible research areas in cyber security. We are considering itself on excellent research, quality may include embedded systems, VLSI and nanotechnology-based circuit design, biochip design, wireless sensor researchers in the early stage of their education, and low student-teacher networks, GPU and multicore architectures, systems software, systems security, virtualization, and many others. career with an academic focus and a ratio. The exceptional location affords Michigan Tech is an ADVANCE institution located in the Upper Peninsula and one of a limited number of universi- strong publication record in one of the GW community unique cultural ties with NSF funds to support diversity and the participation and advancement of women in STEM (science, the following areas: operating systems and intellectual opportunities. In the technology, engineering, and math.) Academic units that are cooperating in the search include the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the School of Business and security, virtualization security, high-tech sector, the Washington, DC Economics. To learn more about the university, please visit: http://www.mtu.edu/campus/ network security, malicious code Metropolitan area is one of the largest Send application materials as a single PDF document to Prof. Daniel R. Fuhrmann, Chair of the Department of Electrical analysis, software vulnerability analysis, IT areas in the nation, putting us in the and Computer Engineering, at [email protected]. Include cover letter, curriculum vitae, and the names and contact or programming language security. center of activities such as security and information of five evaluators who have agreed to write letters of reference. The PDF should also include a 1-page Information about the Center is biotechnology. statement on each of the following areas: a) the applicant’s vision for the future of education, research, and technology transfer in cross-disciplinary areas of electrical engineering and computer science, b) a preliminary vision for a multi- available from http://csis.gmu.edu/. disciplinary research center, and c) a description of the applicant’s leadership experience and philosophy. The successful candidate will have Review of applications begins immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Michigan Technological a strong theoretical foundation in Professional Opportunities University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Equal Opportunity Employer. computer science with an applied systems Continued on Page 12

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Professional Opportunities The Department of Computer Science (a) a current CV; (b) a statement of program and be committed to excellence John Jay College of Criminal offers an accredited Bachelor of Science research interests (including a description in teaching undergraduates and graduate Justice, of the City University of program, a Bachelor of Arts program, of current and planned research funding); students. Applications are accepted New York and Master’s and Ph.D degrees. The and (c) the names of three people who will from candidates in all areas of computer Department of Mathematics and Department has 18 faculty members, write letters of recommendation; science, though we are especially Computer Science numerous affiliated and adjunct faculty by mail to: interested in candidates with expertise Assistant Professor members, and over 425 students. The Chair of Computer Science Search in web technology, algorithms in high We invite applications for a Department has educational and research Committee performance computing, biocomputing, tenure-track position at the Assistant programs in security, networks, graphics, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science databases, visual analytics, and network Professor level to begin in Fall 2010. biomedical applications, search and data CUNY Graduate Center security. In addition to teaching undergraduate mining, human computer interaction, and 365 Fifth Avenue The application must consist of mathematics and computer science machine intelligence, with funding from New York, NY 10016 a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, courses, the successful candidate will various agencies; a NSA-designated Center or email to: [email protected] and a statement of research direction teach and mentor student research of Academic Excellence and Center of If you have questions about the and teaching interests. Applicants in the Department’s M.S. program Academic Excellence-Research in security, position, you may email them to above should also arrange for three letters of in Forensic Computing. Candidates with funding from NSF, DOD, and other address. recommendation to be mailed directly to are expected to bring enthusiasm and agencies; and NIH-funded collaborations The Graduate Center is centrally the Committee. demonstrated commitment to teaching with the medical school in the biomedical located in midtown Manhattan, across The department is committed to and to develop and maintain and areas. For further information please refer the street from the Empire State Building, achieving excellence through diversity. active research and publication agenda. to http://www.cs.gwu.edu. on Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Applications and nominations of Successful candidates will be expected Review of applications will begin on Streets, near public transportation to women, persons of color, applicants with to coordinate the college’s introductory December 1, 2009, and will continue Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey disabilities, and members of other under- statistics for social science majors. The through the Spring 2010 semester, and Connecticut. It is a college of The represented groups are desired. position requires the faculty member to until the position is filled. Application City University of New York, the nation’s Send all materials to: develop an active research program that Procedure: To be considered, applicants largest public urban university with 31 Faculty Search Committee endeavors to secure external funding. must send a letter containing (i) a doctoral programs. Visit our website for Department of Computer and Candidates with a strong background brief statement that clearly indicates further information about our program: Information Science and interest in applications of computer the position and rank of interest, (ii) http://cs.gc.cuny.edu IUPUI science to problems in Statistical Machine a curriculum vitae, (iii) a statement of EQUAL EMPLOYMENT 723 W. Michigan Street, SL 280 Learning, Disk Forensics, Network research and teaching interests, and (vi) OPPORTUNITY Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132 Security, and Systems Security are of complete contact information for at least The City University of New York is E-mail applications may be sent to particular interest. The position requires three references. These and other relevant an Equal Opportunity Employer which [email protected]. Consideration of a Ph.D. in Mathematics or Computer supporting materials should be sent to: complies with all applicable laws and applications will begin on February 1, Science. Applicants should submit their Chair, Faculty Search Committee regulations, and encourages inclusive 2010 and will continue until the positions cover letter, CV, research and teaching Department of Computer Science excellence in its employment practices. are filled. statements, and names of 3 references PHIL 703 IUPUI is an EEO/AA Employer, electronically to Prof. Spiros Bakiras, The George Washington University IMDEA Networks M/F/D. For further information about at [email protected]. Review of Washington D.C. 20052 Call for Researchers the department, please visit applications will begin December 1st and Electronic submissions are preferred, IMDEA Networks is an independent, www.cs.iupui.edu. will continue until the position is filled. and can be sent to [email protected]. non-profit research institute whose John Jay College is a senior college Only complete applications will be multinational team is engaged in cutting- of the City University of New York considered. Inquiries about applying will edge fundamental science in all areas (CUNY), and offers bachelor’s and be accorded the utmost discretion. For of networking. As a growing, English- master’s degrees and participates in complete instructions on the application speaking institute located in Madrid, the doctoral programs of the Graduate process, please visit the department Spain, IMDEA Networks offers a unique School of CUNY. The College is the website www.cs.gwu.edu. opportunity for scientists to develop their The George Washington University is pioneering ideas and to shape the future an equal opportunity/affirmative action of networking over the coming years. employer. We are looking for excellent researchers at all levels of their The Graduate Center, CUNY professional career, ranging from those Computer Science - Simulation or who have recently achieved their Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Visualization (Staff and Post-Doc Researchers) to Tenure-Track Faculty Position(s) Associate, Full or Distinguished Professor tenured Senior Researchers and very Applications are invited for one or more tenure-track faculty positions beginning August 2010. Candidates are of Computer Science distinguished Chief Researchers. expected to have a Ph.D. in computer science or a closely related field and to demonstrate potential for The Ph.D. Program in Computer Successful candidates should have: excellence in teaching and research. Candidates with interests in all areas of computer science will be considered. Of particular interest are candidates who are likely to participate in interdisciplinary research Science at the Graduate School of • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or collaborations. Individuals with ongoing research support may be considered for research faculty positions. the City University of New York is Computer Science The Department has 350 undergraduates in three degree programs (Computer Science, Computer Systems seeking to fill a position at the level of • High level of English (please note: Science and Software Engineering) and approximately 50 M.S. and Ph.D students. Faculty research interests Associate Professor or higher to begin Spanish is not required) include artificial intelligence, computer architecture, computer science education, compilers, distributed Fall 2010; a particularly strong candidate • Research experience in the field of systems, graphics, human computer interaction, networks, parallel computing, security, software engineering, and visualization. In addition, the Department has a central role in the interdisciplinary Computational Science will be nominated as a Distinguished networking and Engineering Ph.D. Program which fosters research and teaching in the application of computer science to Professor. Duties involve mentoring • Significant scientific record backed by engineering and scientific problems. Ph.D- level students, conducting high impact international publications In January 2005 the Department moved into the new Rekhi Computer Science Hall which includes space for research, and teaching doctoral-level • Ability to undertake academic research graduate student and faculty offices, research and instructional labs, and classrooms. The facility also houses the Computational Science and Engineering Research Institute, providing access to high performance courses. This is one of a number newly at the highest level computing platforms. Internet2 access is available. created positions at the university as • Substantial experience in leading Michigan Tech is a research university with approximately 7,000 students and 400 faculty with educational and part of its commitment to improved research groups (in the case of research programs in computing, engineering, physical and social sciences, forestry, humanities and business. cyberinfrastucture. applicants for Chief and Senior Michigan Tech is located in Michigan's scenic Upper Peninsula and is surrounded by Lake Superior and nearby forests. The community offers year-round recreational and cultural opportunities. This environment, combined The successful candidate will have Researcher positions). with a competitive compensation package and a low cost of living, results in an excellent quality of life. a doctorate in Computer Science or Apply now through our online form at Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Women and minorities are particularly closely related field. The candidate must www.networks.imdea.org encouraged to apply. Applicants should send resume, email address, and a list of at least three references to: have a record of significant research published in peer-reviewed journals and Indiana University-Purdue Linda M. Ott, Chair Department of Computer Science an established ongoing program of grant- University Indianapolis Michigan Technological University supported research in either simulation Department of Computer & Information Houghton, Michigan 49931 [email protected] methodology or in computer visualization. Science (906) 487-2209 In addition, the successful candidate Tenure-Track Faculty Positions For more information see our web page http://www.cs.mtu.edu/. will be an effective teacher and academic The Department of Computer and mentor; he/she may also be expected Information Science invites applications In addition to the present search in the Department of Computer Science, a two-year university-wide search to fill up to ten positions in each of the areas "Next-Generation Energy Systems" and "Health:Basic Sciences, to provide academic leadership in the for two tenure track faculty positions at all Technologies, and Medical Informatics” is underway. Qualified candidates are encouraged to send a separate cyberinfrastructure initiative. levels, beginning August 2010. application, following the "How to Apply" guidelines at www.mtu.edu/sfhi. The review of applications will begin Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in Michigan Tech is an ADVANCE institution, one of a limited number of universities in receipt of NSF funds in on November 30, 2009, and continues Computer Science or closely related field support of our commitment to increase diversity and the participation and advancement of women in STEM.

until the position is filled. To apply please at time of appointment, and are expected Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer. send a letter of applications that includes to develop a high-quality funded research

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Professional Opportunities largest Hispanic serving four-year college Knox College strong advising system, and an emphasis Ph.D. requirements will be completed in the northeastern US. Department of Computer Science on independent research foster close by Fall 2010. Successful applicants For more information about this Assistant Professor of Computer Science student/faculty interaction. Please will be able to teach computer science position including responsibilities, salary The Department of Computer visit us at www.knox.edu for more courses across our curriculum- and applying, please visit our website: Science at Knox College invites information about the College, and introductory courses and upper-level www.jjay.cuny.edu/jobs applications for an anticipated tenure- at cs.knox.edu for information on the electives. It is possible that this will be The City University of New York track position at the Assistant Professor department and our facilities. converted into a tenure-track position An Equal Employment Opportunity/ level to begin Sept. 1, 2010. We seek To apply, please send us a curriculum in the future. Affirmative Action/Immigration Reform candidates with the potential for vitae, a letter detailing your research A highly selective liberal arts and Control Act/Americans with excellence in teaching and research in a interests and teaching philosophy, college located in a suburb of Disabilities Act Employer. liberal arts institution. While all areas and copies of current letters of Chicago, Lake Forest College enrolls of specialization will be considered, the recommendation from three references, approximately 1,400 students from Johns Hopkins University following areas would be particularly one of which must address your teaching. over 45 states and 65 countries. At Biomedical Engineering and Computer complementary to the current faculty: Electronic submissions are preferred. Lake Forest College, the quality of a Science database management systems, modeling Send your application to: faculty member’s teaching is the most Postdoctoral Researcher, Data Mining and and simulation, human-computer John F. Dooley, Chair important criterion for evaluation. Data Management Bioinformatics interaction, and artificial intelligence. A Department of Computer Science The college also expects peer-reviewed Candidates are sought for multiple PhD in Computer Science is preferred, Knox College, Box K-138 publication or creative works and active funded positions to create an although candidates that are ABD will 2 East South Street participation in the college community. international repository for protein chip be considered. Galesburg, IL 61401-4999 Lake Forest College embraces data (NSF DataNet Conservancy), to The Department offers a major (e-mail: [email protected]) diversity and encourages applications develop innovative data mining tools and a minor in Computer Science. Review of applications will begin from women and members of other (NIH Roadmap Center for Networks Departmental computing facilities as soon as they are complete and will historically underrepresented groups. and Pathways), and to design and include student laboratories, a student continue until the position is filled. Applicants should send letter of synthesize artificial chromosomes. independent research laboratory, a quad- Knox College is an affirmative application, CV, and documentation of Technically excellence and database processor Intel Xeon server running Red action, equal opportunity employer. In teaching experience to: experience override previous work in Hat Linux, a departmental Macintosh keeping with its 171-year commitment Prof. Craig Knuckles computational biology. laboratory with virtualization software to equal rights, the College particularly Chair, Dept. of Mathematics & Email CVs with names of at least 3 that permits running Windows or Linux, welcomes applications from individuals in Computer Science references to [email protected]. a 192 core parallel processing graphics underrepresented groups. Lake Forest College system, and access to the College’s other 555 N. Sheridan Road The Johns Hopkins University Windows and Macintosh laboratories. Lake Forest College, Lake Lake Forest, IL 60045 Department of Computer Science The campus is completely wireless. Forest, IL Applicants must also arrange to have Tenure-Track Faculty Positions Knox is a highly selective independent Computer Science three letters of reference sent separately. The Department of Computer liberal arts college with students from Assistant Professor For full consideration, applications should Science at The Johns Hopkins University 48 states and 41 countries. The college The Department of Mathematics arrive by Jan 31, 2010. is seeking applications for tenure- is consistently ranked as one of the and Computer Science invites track faculty positions at the Assistant “Best Values” among national liberal applications for a two-year position at Max Planck Institute for Software Professor level, as well as applications for arts colleges in the U.S. News & World the assistant professor level, beginning Systems (MPI-SWS) a focused search at the Associate or Full Report survey of quality and price Fall 2010. The position requires a Ph.D. Tenure-track Openings Professor level. in higher education. Small classes, a in computer science or evidence that all Applications are invited for tenure- At the Assistant Professor level all track and tenured faculty positions in areas will be considered, but candidates all areas related to the design, analysis with research agendas in computational and engineering of software systems, genomics, computer systems, and including programming languages, health-related applications will receive formal methods, security, distributed, special attention. At the Associate networked and embedded systems, or Full Professor level we are seeking databases and information systems, and outstanding applicants in the security human-computer interaction. A doctoral area. All applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in computer science or related in computer science or a related field areas and an outstanding research record and are expected to show evidence of an are required. Successful candidates are FACULTY POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE / ability to establish a strong, independent, expected to build a team and pursue COMPUTING SYSTEMS / INFORMATION SYSTEMS multidisciplinary, internationally a highly visible research agenda, both WITH NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY recognized research program. independently and in collaboration with Commitment to quality teaching at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore is ranked globally as one of the best other groups. Senior candidates must have universities in the World. Under the University’s College of Engineering, the School of the undergraduate and graduate levels will Computer Engineering (SCE)-NTU, established in 1988, offers undergraduate training demonstrated leadership abilities and be required of all candidates considered. leading to a BEng (Hons) in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, as well as recognized international stature. The department webpage at http://www. graduate training leading to MSc, MEng and PhD. A research intensive institution with a MPI-SWS, founded in 2005, is part of strong R&D infrastructure and networked alliance with industry and academia, the School cs.jhu.edu provides information about the offers its academic staff the opportunity to pioneer cutting-edge research in a wide a network of eighty Max Planck Institutes, department, including links to research spectrum of technological areas. Germany’s premier basic research laboratories and centers. SCE comprises four divisions; Division of Computer Communications (CCM), Division of Computer facilities. MPIs have an established record Applicants should apply using the Science (CSC), Division of Computing Systems (CPS) and Division of Information Systems (IS), of world-class, foundational research in and is home to over 2,052 students as well as 100 academic staff from across the globe. online application which can be accessed the fields of medicine, biology, chemistry, In light of the rapid growth of the Information Technology arena, high-calibre PhD holders from http://www.cs.jhu.edu/apply with a proven track record in research, and teaching at a university level are invited to apply physics, technology and humanities. (for full consideration, by January 4 for suitable appointments as Associate Professor (A/P) or Assistant Professor (Ast/P) Since 1948, MPI researchers have won 17 2010). Questions should be directed to in the following areas: Nobel prizes. MPI-SWS aspires to meet • High Performance Computing or Distributed Systems (A/P or Ast/P in CSC) [email protected]. The Department • Artificial Intelligence or Computational Intelligence (A/P or Ast/P in CSC) the highest standards of excellence and is committed to building a diverse • Audio, Speech & Signal Processing (A/P or Ast/P in CPS) international recognition with its research educational environment; women and • Bioinformatics (Ast/P in IS) in software systems. • Machine Learning & Intelligent Agents (Ast/P in IS) minorities are strongly encouraged to • Agents, Services Computing & Text Mining (A/P or Ast/P in IS) To this end, the institute offers a apply. The Johns Hopkins University is Candidates for appointment at an Associate Professor level must possess an outstanding unique environment that combines the an EEO/AA employer. track record of research through publication in top ranking journals, obtaining grants and best aspects of a university department academic leadership, as well as a willingness and demonstrated ability to teach at the Faculty Search undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidates for appointment at the Assistant and a research laboratory: Department of Computer Science Professor level must demonstrate strong research potential and a willingness and ability to a) Faculty receive generous base Room 224 New, Engineering Building teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Successful candidates are expected to carry funding to build and lead a team of out research in one of the research centres hosted by SCE, as well as teach MSc, MEng and Johns Hopkins University BEng Computer Engineering/Computer Science programmes offered by the School. graduate students and post-docs. They Baltimore, MD 21218-2694 Based on the qualifications and experience, successful candidates can look forward to an have full academic freedom and publish Fax: 410-516-6134 excellent remuneration package, and start-up grants to pursue research interests in the their research results freely. Phone: 410-516-8775 broad field of Computer Engineering/Computer Science. b) Faculty have the opportunity to [email protected] Further information about the school can be obtained at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce. supervise doctoral theses, teach graduate Informal enquiries and submission of application forms can be made to http://www.cs.jhu.edu/apply [email protected]. Guidelines for application submission and application forms can and undergraduate courses, and have the be obtained from http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/Career/SubmitApplications/ flexibility to incorporate teaching into Pages/default.aspx. their research agenda. Closing Date: 15 March 2010 Professional Opportunities www.ntu.edu.sg Continued on Page 14 Page 13

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Professional Opportunities c) Faculty are provided with Staff, 703-292-4367 (Hearing impaired about turning research into high-impact Mathematics community as evidenced outstanding technical and administrative individuals may call TDD 703-292-8044). products and services. by NSF grants, publications, and support facilities as well as internationally Applications must be received by January For details about this position, please international invitations. competitive compensation packages. 29, 2010. visit: The College of Computer & Funds have been committed to grow In addition to these vacancies, http://www.nec-labs.com/careers/ Information Science maintains a strong the institute to a strength of 17 tenured the CISE Directorate is continuously careers-c6.php research program with significant funding and tenure-track faculty, and about 100 searching for a diverse group of candidates from major federal research agencies doctoral and post-doctoral positions. interested in joining the Directorate as Northeastern University and private industry, and is driven by Additional growth through outside Program Directors on Intergovernmental College of Computer & Information the broad interdisciplinary themes funding is expected. We maintain an Personnel Act (IPA) assignments. Initial Science & Department of Mathematics of Software Reliability, Information open, international and diverse work assignments under the IPA provisions may Joint Position in Mathematics and Assurance, Network Science, and Health environment and seek applications be made for a period of up to two years, Computer Science Informatics. Major research groups exist in from outstanding researchers regardless with a possible extension for up to an The College of Computer & algorithms and theory, network security, of national origin or citizenship. The additional two-year period. Qualification Information Science and the Department formal methods, programming languages, working language is English; knowledge requirements for these positions include of Mathematics at Northeastern information retrieval, and human- of the German language is not required a Ph.D. or equivalent professional University announce a joint position at computer interaction. for a successful career at the institute. experience in computer and information the Associate or Full Professor level. A The ideal candidate would be The institute is located in science and engineering fields. For more PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, exceptionally accomplished in research Kaiserslautern and Saarbruecken, in information, we encourage interested or a related field is required. and will bridge the strong research groups the tri-border area of Germany, France parties to contact us at (703) 292-8900 or Northeastern University, located in both programs. and Luxembourg. The area offers a high at [email protected]. on the Avenue of the Arts in Boston’s Applicants should submit a letter of standard of living, beautiful surroundings NSF is an Equal Opportunity historic Back Bay, is home to 20,000 interest, curriculum vitae, and the contact and easy access to major metropolitan Employer. students and to the nation’s premier information of at least five references. To areas in the center of Europe, as well cooperative education program. The past apply, visit http://www.ccs.neu.edu and as a stimulating, competitive and Naval Postgraduate School two decades have witnessed a dramatic click on the Faculty Positions button near collaborative work environment. In Computer Science Department increase in Northeastern’s international the bottom of the webpage. immediate proximity are the MPI for Assistant Professor(s) reputation for research and innovative Screening of applications begins Informatics, Saarland University, the It’s hard to beat the location educational programs. A heightened November 15, 2009 and will continue Technical University of Kaiserslautern, the and atmosphere of the U.S. Naval focus on interdisciplinary research and until the position is filled. German Center for Artificial Intelligence Postgraduate School. We are in Monterey, scholarship is driving a faculty hiring For questions about the search, please (DFKI), and the Fraunhofer Institutes for California, a scenic, uncongested Pacific initiative at Northeastern, which will e-mail [email protected]. Experimental Software Engineering and coast city one hour’s drive south of advance its position amongst the nation’s Equal Employment Opportunity for Industrial Mathematics. Silicon Valley. We are an all graduate top research universities. Northeastern University is an Qualified candidates should apply M.S. and Ph.D. program with top-notch The Mathematics Department Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action online at: U.S. and international military students currently sponsors research programs Educational Institution and Employer, http://www.mpi-sws.org/application and rich research opportunities in in many areas of pure and applied Title IX University. Northeastern The review of applications will begin both the defense and civilian sectors. mathematics, including algebra, University particularly welcomes on January 4, 2010, and applicants are The Computer Science Department combinatorics, analysis, and mathematical applications from minorities, women and strongly encouraged to apply by that date; currently has tenure-track openings at physics, and its top researchers are persons with disabilities. Northeastern however, applications will continue to be the Assistant Professor level in both internationally recognized by the University is an E-Verify Employer. accepted through January 2010. information security (2 positions) and The institute is committed to artificial intelligence/machine learning/ increasing the representation of robotics/natural language processing minorities, women and individuals (1 position). Faculty teach graduate with physical disabilities in Computer classes, supervise M.S. and Ph.D. theses, Science. We particularly encourage such and conduct cutting-edge scientific individuals to apply. research. The typical work load is 50% teaching and 50% research. The School National Science Foundation, has a strong commitment to research Careers with Mass Appeal Arlington, VA excellence, hosting about $100M Division of Computing and externally-funded research annually. Communication Foundations Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Director Computer Science or a closely related Tenure-Track or Bring your management experience field, and must be U.S. citizens, Tenured Associate Professor Positions and passion for innovation to NSF permanent residents, or in the process in Computer Science and help us in our mission to support of becoming a permanent resident. science and engineering research. Electronically send a cover letter, The Computer Science Department at UMass Lowell invites applications NSF’s Directorate for Computer and curriculum vitae (including a Web link for two faculty positions at the rank of Associate Professor to start in September 2010. These are tenure-track or tenured positions depending on qualifications, Information Science and Engineering to all supporting documents), research where an offer at the rank of Full Professor may also be considered. Applicants (CISE) seeks candidates for the statement, and a statement of teaching must hold a PhD in computer science or a closely related discipline and be Director, Division of Computing philosophy to the CS Search Committee committed to developing and sustaining externally funded research programs. We are looking for faculty members who have made substantial contributions to and Communication Foundations at [email protected]. Questions about their fields and have strong ongoing research projects funded by major US funding (CCF). CISE promotes basic research the application process should be directed agencies. All mainstream research areas will be considered. Successful applicants and education in the computer and to: Associate Professor Craig Martell, will be expected to create new programs and contribute to the collaborative research programs of the existing departmental groups. information sciences and engineering, and [email protected], (831) 656-2110. helps maintain the nation’s preeminence The Naval Postgraduate School is an UMass Lowell is located 25 miles northwest of Boston in the high-tech corridor of Massachusetts. The Computer Science Department has 16 tenured and tenure-track in these fields. New developments in Equal Opportunity Employer. faculty. It offers the BS, MS, and PhD degree programs. The Computer Science these areas of science and technology faculty received approximately $4M in the last two years in external research affect every facet of modern life, including NEC Laboratories America, Inc. funding from the NSF, DOD, DOH, and local companies. For information about sustainability, security, entertainment, Department of Information Analysis faculty research areas and the degree programs please visit http://www.cs.uml.edu. health and education. Information about Research Staff Member Initial review of applications will begin on December 20, 2009. Applications the Directorate’s activities may be found at NEC Laboratories America, Inc., received by January 20, 2010 are assured of full consideration. Women and under- represented minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. http://www.nsf.gov/home/cise/. (www.nec-labs.com) is a vibrant industrial Appointment to this Senior Executive research center renowned for technical Please follow the following directions to apply: Service position may be on a career basis, excellence and high-impact innovations. It 1. Submit a cover letter, a current CV, a research statement, a teaching statement, or a 2 to 3 year limited term basis, with is headquartered at Princeton, NJ and has and selected relevant publications through the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s website at http://jobs.uml.edu under “Faculty Positions”. Submissions a salary range of $153,200 to $171,882. a second location at Cupertino, CA, the directly to the department will not be accepted. Alternatively, the positions may be filled heart of Silicon Valley. 2. Arrange for at least three letters of recommendation to be sent directly under Intergovernmental Personnel The Information Analysis Department by email (PDF format preferred) to [email protected] (Applicant’s name should Act (IPA) assignment provisions. at Cupertino, CA, is seeking outstanding appear in the subject line). Announcement S20100017, with position researchers with background in machine 3. Other optional documents: Please attach to your application summaries of requirements and application procedures, learning and computer vision, to work Teaching Evaluations if available. are located on the NSF Home Page at on large-scale image and video tagging/ The University of Massachusetts is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Title IX, http://www.nsf.gov/about/career_opps/ recognition/search. We expect the H/V, ADA 1990 Employer and Executive Order 11246, 41 CFR60-741 4, 41 vacancies/executive.jsp or can be obtained candidates to be strong in conducting CRF60-250 4, 41CRF60-1 40 and 41 CFR60-1,4 are hereby incorporated. by contacting the Executive Personnel cutting-edge research, but also passionate

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PUBLICATION CRA News/Computer Research SIZE 4.5” x 7” SCREEN 100 lpi WO # 123226 IO # 580746 NOTES January 2010 Computing Research News CRA Ad Professional Opportunities Research, and has received three rounds multidisciplinary research. Up to three University of Cincinnati of funding in the Scholarship for Service positions at the Assistant Professor rank Open Faculty pOsitiOn: assistant prOFessOr OF cOmputer science (SFS) Program. It has a large number of are available. A joint appointment with PhD and MS students active in research another department within the College of The University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences invites applications for a junior tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Computer Science. The position starts in the Autumn quarter of 2010. Candidates in cyber security. Over a dozen security Science or the College of Engineering is should have strong commitment to advancing research and education in computer science. Candidates in all areas of courses are offered regularly and an MS likely for candidates with interdisciplinary computer science will be considered, but preference will be given to those in software engineering and databases. in cyber security with an optional on-line research interests. Qualifications for this position include a doctoral degree in computer science or a closely related field, the ability to component is also available. Current Purdue faculty have had a pioneering develop and sustain an externally funded academic research program, commitment to quality teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels, and interpersonal skills to motivate and engage students. research focuses on trusted hardware role in computational science and and software systems, digital forensics, engineering research and education, and The CS Department offers BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering. The Department has well equipped research and teaching laboratories, a mandatory co-op program for the BSCS, multimedia security, biometrics, and are currently involved in several large-scale and a strong and motivated student body. application and network security. The computing projects: e.g., the CSCAPES

The University, having completed a major building campaign, has one of the finest urban settings in American higher ideal candidate for this position would Institute funded by the Department education. The University of Cincinnati is a state supported, comprehensive Research 1 institution with an endowment help us expand in some of these areas as of Energy, and the PRISM project that is 22nd largest among public institutions in the nation, a research program that is funded at a level of more than $370 million annually, and student enrollment of about 37,000. well as into new areas. funded by the National Nuclear Safety (2) Position in data and knowledge Administration. The Computing Research Applicants must apply through www.jobsatuc.com (position # 28uc3197) and include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information of three references. The position will remain open until filled. Additional information management, web search and Institute facilitates collaborations in is available at http://www.cs.uc.edu/about-cs/job-openings. information retrieval, computer games, or high-performance computing by bringing The University of Cincinnati is an affirmative action/equal opportunity social networks and online communities: computational scientists and domain employer. Qualified women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with The department has existing research scientists together. Interdisciplinary disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University of Cincinnati buildings are a smoke-free environment efforts in relevant areas such as web graduate programs in Computational search, content distribution and Science and Engineering, and distributed systems, machine learning, Computational Life Sciences help train and games and computer interfaces. Our graduate students across departmental Oakland University Applicants should hold or be faculty is also involved in the recently boundaries. Software Engineering/Information completing a Ph.D. in CSE or a closely founded Games for Learning Institute The Department of Computer Science Technology related field, and have a commitment to (see http://g4li.nyu.edu/), which engages offers a stimulating and nurturing Faculty Position and demonstrated record of excellence faculty from several schools at NYU. academic environment. Forty-four faculty The Department of Computer in research as well as a commitment to We are looking for a faculty member members direct research programs Science and Engineering seeks applicants excellence in teaching. that would significantly strengthen or in areas including bioinformatics, for a tenure-track appointment at the To apply, please submit your complement our current efforts. Areas computational science and engineering, rank of Assistant Professor to start application via the online database. The of particular interest are (i) mining, databases, machine learning, networking, in January 2010. Applicants must link can be found at: search, and analysis of the web and of programming languages, security, have completed a Ph.D. in Software http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/ social networks and online worlds, (ii) software engineering, systems, theory, Engineering or Computer Science. department/positions.shtml principles and architectures of computer and visualization.The department has Candidates must show exceptional Review of applications will begin games, (iii) data engineering and mining implemented a strategic plan for future promise in both research and teaching. in January and will continue until the with applications in security, electronic growth and has recently moved into the Desired areas of interest include project positions are filled. commerce, or the web, or (iv) research Lawson building. Further information management, information systems The Ohio State University is that combines several of these themes in about the department is available at analysis and design, software quality an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative innovative ways. http://www.cs.purdue.edu. assurance, maintenance & evolution, Action Employer. Women, minorities, The Polytechnic Institute of NYU All applicants should hold a PhD CMMI, as well as evidence of successful or individuals with disabilities are (formerly known as Brooklyn Poly) and in computer science or a closely related teaching in software engineering/IT encouraged to apply. New York University are in advanced discipline, be committed to excellence in courses are highly desired. stages of merger proceedings, with teaching, and have demonstrated potential Applications should be submitted by The Pennsylvania State the goal of us becoming a school for excellence in research. Salary and January 15, 2010 but will be accepted University of NYU. The successful candidate benefits are highly competitive. Applicants until the position is filled. Applicants College of Information Sciences and will have excellent opportunities to should apply online at: should send a letter of intent, a statement Technology initiate interdisciplinary research and https://hiring.science.purdue.edu of research and teaching interests, Assistant Professor of IST educational collaborations with the Review of applications will begin resume, and the names of three references The College of Information Sciences diverse institutes and departments on October 1, 2009, and will continue to: Search Committee, Department of and Technology at The Pennsylvania State within NYU. The Computer Science until the positions are filled. Purdue Computer Science and Engineering, University, http://www.ist.psu.edu, has and Engineering Department (CSE) University is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Oakland University, Rochester, MI an opening for an assistant professor. The of NYU-Poly has a strong faculty with Access/Affirmative Action employer 48309-4478. E-mail: csesearch@secs. complete position announcement with all a vibrant research program and strong fully committed to achieving a diverse oakland.edu qualifications and application instructions course offerings, with existing strengths workforce. Oakland University, a public institute is available at: including security, networks and with over 19,000 students, is located in https://apps.ist.psu.edu/recruit/ distributed systems, algorithms, and web Purdue University Michigan’s Automation Alley. The CSE apply/ search technology. Our PhD program is School of ECE Department currently has an enrollment Review of applications will begin in one of a handful of programs ranked by Computer Engineering Faculty Position in of approximately 40 doctoral, 150 November 2009. US News and World Report with fewer Human-Centered Computing graduate and 315 undergraduate students. Penn State is committed to affirmative than 15 research faculty. We are located The School of Electrical and Computer Our undergraduate program in Computer action, equal opportunity and the diversity in Downtown Brooklyn and a 5-minute Engineering at Purdue University invites Science is accredited by CAC/ABET. of its workforce. subway ride from Lower Manhattan. applications for a faculty position at any For more information on the CSE Review of applications will begin in level in human-centered computing, Department, please visit: Polytechnic Institute of NYU January 2010 and will continue until including but not limited to visualization, www.cse.secs.oakland.edu (NYU-Poly) the position is filled. Applicants should visual analytics, human computer Oakland University is an equal Computer Science and Engineering send their curriculum vitae, statement of interaction (HCI), and graphics. opportunity employer. Department research and teaching interests, and the The Computer Engineering Area of Faculty Positions names and addresses of three referees, as the school (http://engineering.purdue. The Ohio State University The Computer Science and a PDF attachment, to [email protected]. edu/ECE/Research/Areas/CompEng) Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of the NYU-Poly is an Equal Opportunity has nineteen faculty members who Engineering Polytechnic Institute of NYU (NYU- Employer. have active research programs in areas Two Tenure-Track Positions Poly) invites applications for two faculty including AI, architecture, compilers, The Department of Computer positions in the areas listed below. Purdue University computer vision, distributed systems, Science and Engineering (CSE), We seek faculty at all levels with an Department of Computer Science embedded systems, graphics, haptics, The Ohio State University, invites exceptional record in research, teaching, Faculty Positions in High-Performance HCI, machine learning, multimedia applications for two tenure-track and professional accomplishments. Computing systems, networking, networking positions at the Assistant Professor The rank of initial appointment will The Department of Computer Science applications, NLP, OS, robotics, level. The positions are open to all CSE be commensurate with experience and at Purdue University invites applications software engineering, and visualization. areas (artificial intelligence, graphics accomplishments. for tenure track faculty positions in Eligible candidates are required to and animation, networking, software (1) Position in cyber security: NYU- the area of computational science and have a PhD in computer science/ engineering and programming languages, Poly has significant existing strength in engineering, and high-performance engineering or a related field and a systems, and theory) with priority cyber security. It is an NSA Center of computing and systems, beginning August significant demonstrated research consideration given to candidates Excellence in Information Assurance 2010. 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Professional Opportunities the position applied for. Applications Applicants for W1 positions (phase Simon Fraser University The Dallas/Fort Worth area, one should consist of a cover letter, a I of the program) must have completed School of Computing Science of the top three high-tech industrial CV, a research statement, names and an outstanding PhD. Upon successful Assistant Professor centers in the country, has the largest contact information for at least three evaluation after two years, W1 group The School of Computing Science concentration of telecommunications references, and URLs for three to five leaders are eligible for promotion to W2. at Simon Fraser University invites corporations in the US, providing online papers. Applications should Direct applicants for W2 positions (phase applications for a tenure-track position abundant opportunities for industrial be submitted to https://engineering. II of the program) must have completed a at the Assistant Professor level for its research cooperation and consulting. purdue.edu/Engr/AboutUs/ postdoc stay and must have demonstrated Software Systems program at the Surrey Dallas/Fort Worth is a multifaceted Employment/Applications. Review of outstanding research potential and the campus in the Metropolitan Vancouver business and high-tech community, applications will begin on 1 December ability to successfully lead their own area. A Ph.D. in Computing Science or offering exceptional museums, diverse 2009. Inquiries may be sent to ece-hcc- research group. Junior research groups are related area is required, with a strong cultural attractions, and a vibrant [email protected]. Applications equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k commitment to excellence in research economy. will be considered as they are received, Euros per year to cover research personnel and teaching. Applicants with a strong The CSE Department resides within but for full consideration should arrive and other costs. background in systems or software the Lyle School of Engineering and by 1 January 2010. Saarland University has leading engineering are invited. Candidates with offers BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Purdue University is an equal departments in computer science and expertise in embedded software systems Computer Engineering and Computer opportunity, equal access, affirmative computational linguistics, with more are particularly welcome. Science, as well as the MS in Security action employer fully committed to than 200 PhD students working on topics Simon Fraser University is consistently Engineering and Software Engineering. achieving a diverse workforce. related to the cluster (see http://www. one of the top-ranked universities in The department currently has 15 faculty informatik-saarland.de for additional Canada. The School of Computing members with research concentrations Saarland University information). The German Excellence Science currently has more than 200 in security engineering, VLSI and Computer Science Department Initiative recently awarded multi-million Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, more than 900 digital systems, computer arithmetic, Several Junior Research Groups (W1/W2) grants to the Cluster of Excellence undergraduate majors, and 55 faculty bioinformatics, software engineering, data Saarland University is seeking “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” members, across two campuses. The mining and database systems, network to establish several Junior Research as well as to the “Saarbrücken Graduate Surrey campus of SFU is located in an and telecommunication software systems, Groups (W1/W2) within the Cluster of School of Computer Science”. An award-winning architectural complex in and related areas. Additional information Excellence “Multimodal Computing and important factor to this success were the the centre of Surrey. may be found at: www.lyle.smu.edu/cse. Interaction” which was established by close ties to the Max Planck Institute for All qualified candidates are Interested individuals should send a the German Research Foundation (DFG) Informatics, the German Research Center encouraged to apply, however Canadian complete resume and names of three within the framework of the German for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and the citizens and permanent residents will be references, including a one-page statement of Excellence Initiative. Max Planck Institute for Software Systems given priority. Simon Fraser University research interests and accomplishments to: The term “multimodal” describes the which are co-located on the same campus. is committed to employment equity [email protected] different types of digital information Candidates should submit their and encourages applications from all or such as text, speech, images, video, application (curriculum vitae, photograph, qualified women and men, including CSE Faculty Search graphics, and high-dimensional list of publications, short research plan, visible minorities, aboriginal people, Department of Computer Science data, and the way it is perceived and copies of degree certificates, copies of the and persons with disabilities. Under the and Engineering communicated, particularly through five most important publications, list of authority of the University Act, personal SMU vision, hearing, and human expression. five references) to the coordinator of the information that is required by the Dallas, TX 75275-0122 The challenge is now to organize, cluster, Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI for University for academic appointment The committee will begin its understand, and search this multimodal Computer Science, Campus E1 4, 66123 competitions will be collected. For further review of the applications on or about information in a robust, efficient and Saarbrücken, Germany. Please, also send details see: February 1, 2010. To ensure full intelligent way, and to create dependable your application as a single PDF file to www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/Faculty_ consideration, applications must be systems that allow natural and intuitive [email protected]. Openings/Collection_Notice.html time and date stamped before February multimodal interaction. We are looking The review of applications will begin Review of applications will commence 1, 2010. However, the committee will for highly motivated young researchers on January 15, 2010, and applicants in January 2010, however applications continue to accept applications until the with a background in the research areas are strongly encouraged to submit will be accepted until February 15, 2010. position is filled. Hiring is contingent of the cluster, including algorithmic applications by that date; however, For additional information see www. upon the satisfactory completion of a foundations, secure and autonomous applications will continue to be accepted cs.sfu.ca. The position is subject to final background check. networked systems, open science web, until January 31, 2010. Final decisions budgetary approval. SMU will not discriminate on the basis information processing in the life will be made following a candidate To apply, provide curriculum vitae, of race, color, religion, national origin, sciences, visual computing, large-scale symposium that will be held during evidence of research productivity, and sex, age, disability, or veteran status. SMU virtual environments, synthetic virtual March 8 - 12, 2010. the names and email addresses of three is committed to nondiscrimination on the characters, text and speech processing Saarland University is an equal referees at: www.cs.sfu.ca/JobOpp basis of sexual orientation. and multimodal dialog systems. opportunity employer. In accordance with Faculty Search (Surrey campus) Additional information on the Cluster its policy of increasing the proportion of School of Computing Science Stony Brook University of Excellence is available on http:// women in this type of employment, the 8888 University Drive Department of Computer Science www.mmci.uni-saarland.de. Group University actively encourages applications Simon Fraser University Assistant Professor (Multiple Positions) leaders will receive junior faculty status from women. For candidates with equal Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Stony Brook University’s Department at Saarland University, including the qualification, preference will be given to V5A 1S6 of Computer Science invites applicants right to supervise Bachelor, Master and people with physical disabilities. [email protected] for tenure-track faculty positions for Fall PhD students. Positions are limited to 2010. Highly qualified junior candidates five years. Southern Methodist University in areas related to intelligent computing, Department of Computer Science and particularly in natural language Engineering processing, data mining, machine Faculty Position in Computer Engineering, learning, artificial intelligence, computer Position number 50679 vision, and intelligent user interfaces are The Department of Computer Science encouraged to apply. Applicants should and Engineering in the Lyle School of hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a    Engineering at Southern Methodist closely related discipline.       University invites applications for a The Department currently has over faculty position in computer engineering 40 faculty members and is expected to                                  beginning Fall 2010. Individuals with recruit additional members in the next few                experience and research interests in years. There are five main research areas                all areas of computer engineering are in the department: computer systems,                                 encouraged to apply. Priority will be given visual computing, logic programming/              to individuals with expertise in computer database, concurrency/verification, and                     architecture, embedded systems, and algorithms. Detailed information on the related areas. Candidates at all ranks research activities of these groups can be                                   will be considered. The successful found in the department home page: www.                    candidates must have or expect to have cs.sunysb.edu. The Department is in a                                    a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering or stage of significant expansion, including           a closely related area by date of hire. a new Computer Science building, along                   Successful applicants will demonstrate with a new Center of Excellence in                                       a deep commitment to research activity Wireless and Information Technology                     in computer engineering and a strong (CEWIT) building. The Department is                                            potential for excellence in teaching. also associated with the New York Center

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Professional Opportunities for Computational Sciences (NYCCS) and The Lab is one of India’s premier Texas A&M University in candidates who will link to existing the New York Blue supercomputer. R&D centers in Computer Science and Department of Computer Science and research strengths in the department. Home to many highly ranked graduate is part of Tata Consultancy Services Engineering We invite applications at all ranks. research programs, Stony Brook University Ltd, the largest Indian IT company. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Senior applicants should have an is located 60 miles from New York City R&D work here leads to creation of Applications are invited for tenure- internationally renowned research on Long Island’s scenic North Shore. intellectual assets that address some of track positions, starting fall 2010, in program and a strong track record of Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 the most challenging problems faced the Department of Computer Science outside funding. Junior applicants undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral by the IT industry and, more generally, and Engineering of the Dwight Look must hold a Ph.D. in Computer students and more than 13,500 faculty by the computing science research College of Engineering at Texas A&M Science or closely related field at time and staff, including those employed at community. You can collaborate with University. As part of a long-term plan of appointment, and are expected Stony Brook University Medical Center, academia, start-ups, industrial partners, to increase the size and improve quality, to develop a high-quality funded Suffolk County’s only academic medical TCS clients, and end-users; publish the department is expanding with an research program. At all levels, we seek center. Stony Brook University is a R&D results in top-tier conferences/ assistant professor position in the area outstanding candidates with a strong member of the prestigious Association of journals; and instantiate their findings to of security, with the goal of having the commitment to undergraduate and American Universities and co-manager of create novel products and services. The faculty member take advantage of some graduate teaching and mentoring. nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory Lab offers a friendly and informal research unique opportunities made available Tufts is among the smallest universities (BNL), a multidisciplinary research environment. You can also pursue a PhD through the Multi-program Research and to have been nationally ranked as a laboratory supporting world class while working. Education Facility (MREF) at TAMU. “Research Class 1” University. Located scientific programs utilizing state-of-the- If you have a top-flight academic MREF allows for faculty to conduct in Boston, it has a dynamically growing art facilities such as the Relativistic Heavy record and a passion for R&D, come join top secret or confidential research in a Computer Science Department. We Ion Collider, the National Synchrotron us! Write to us at: [email protected] with secure facility. Hence, preference will be are part of the Tufts Engineering Light Source, the Center for Functional ‘Opportunities’ as the subject. For details given to faculty candidates who will be school which has recently entered an Nanomaterials, and the NewYorkBlue view: http://www.tcs-trddc.com able to obtain federal security clearance exciting growth phase with a focus on IBM BG/L+P supercomputer, owned within the first two years. Top candidates interdisciplinary research. The Tufts by Stony Brook and managed by BNL. Texas A&M University in other areas at all professor levels Center for Scientific Visualization Stony Brook is a partner in managing Department of Computer Science and (Assistant, Associate, and Full) will also provides a unique opportunity the Laboratory for the Department of Engineering be considered. Candidates must have for collaboration on graphics and Energy, and is the largest institutional Post-Doctoral Position, Computational a Ph.D. degree and will be expected to visualization within the school. Tufts scientific user of BNL facilities. As such, Science teach, perform research, and supervise faculty have many opportunities for cross many opportunities exist for collaborative Postdoctoral positions are available in graduate students. school interdisciplinary collaborations research, and in some cases, joint the Department of Computer Science and Texas A&M University CS faculty and benefit from the rich intellectual life appointments can be arranged. Engineering at Texas A&M University in applicants should apply online at: of the Boston area. Applicants should apply online at: the area of computational science as part https://apply2.cse.tamu.edu/gts/ We request that applications include https://hiring.cs.stonybrook.edu. Review of the Institute for Applied Mathematics applicant/faculty/ the following materials (a) a curriculum of applications will begin immediately and Computational Science (IAMCS). For questions about the positions, vitae, (b) a statement describing current and will continue until the position is Texas A&M is an equal opportunity contact: [email protected]. and planned research, (c) a statement filled. For a full position description employer. Applicants must have clearly Applications are welcome from dual of teaching philosophy, (d) names and or application procedures, visit www. demonstrated experience and skills in career couples. affiliations of three to five potential stonybrook.edu/jobs (Ref. #F-6062-09-10). computational science. Familiarity with Texas A&M University is an equal references and (e) a sample of scholarly Equal opportunity/affirmative action high performance computing, parallel opportunity/affirmative action employer work. All these should be submitted employer methods, and performance analysis is a and actively seeks candidacy of women online though. Letters of recommendation definite plus. and minorities. will be solicited only with the candidate’s TCS Innovation Labs — (TRDDC) Responsibilities include research in the explicit approval. Software and Systems R&D area of computational science, interaction Toyota Technological Institute at Review of applications will begin Members of Research Staff with colleagues and agency scientists, and Chicago (TTI-C) January 5, 2010 and will continue until TCS Innovation Labs (TRDDC) preparing technical papers. Computer Science the position is filled. (Pune, India)invites applications from Please send a letter of interest and Faculty Positions at All Levels For more information about the exceptional and highly motivated MS/ your CV, and ask three evaluators to send Toyota Technological Institute at department, the position please visit: MTech/PhD candidates with research letters of reference, by email, to Chicago (TTI-C) is a philanthropically http://www.cs.tufts.edu aptitude in all areas of Computer Ms. Kathy Waskom (k-waskom@tamu. endowed degree-granting institute To apply for the position go to: Science. edu), (979) 845-3535 for computer science located on the https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/ Specific areas of interest include Attention: Computational Science University of Chicago campus. The TuftsCS/ComputerScience/256 algorithms; formal methods; model- Post-Doc Institute is expected to soon reach a Inquiries should be emailed to driven software development; program See the IAMCS web page http:// steady-state of 12 traditional faculty [email protected]. and requirements analysis; software iamcs.tamu.edu for more information. (tenure and tenure track), and 12 Tufts University is an Affirmative testing; distributed/operating systems The position is currently available. limited term faculty. Applications are Action/Equal Opportunity employer. and networks; data privacy and security; being accepted in all areas, but we are We are committed to increasing the databases and data warehouses; particularly interested in: diversity of our faculty. Members of statistical data analysis and data Theoretical computer science underrepresented groups are strongly mining; machine learning; information Speech processing encouraged to apply. extraction and retrieval; decision Machine learning support systems; among others. Computational linguistics Tufts University Computer vision Tufts Medical Center & Computer Science Scientific computing Department Programming languages Postdoctoral Fellowship in Machine Positions are available at all ranks, and Learning      we have a large number of limited term A postdoctoral position is available positions currently available. for an outstanding individual capable      For all positions we require a Ph.D. of taking a leading role in research Degree or Ph.D. candidacy, with the on machine learning, algorithms for Computer Science Assistant Professor Position degree conferred prior to date of hire. information extraction, social network             Submit your application electronically at: analysis and information retrieval.                 http://ttic.uchicago.edu/facapp/ This project is joint with the Tufts                             Toyota Technological Institute Medical Center and Computer Science               at Chicago is an Equal Opportunity   Department. The fellow will work           Employer directly with the Tufts machine learning                 group (http://www.cs.tufts.edu/research/             Tufts University                  ml/) headed by Profs. Carla Brodley       Computer Science Department and Roni Khardon and researchers               Faculty Search 2010 in Graphics and/or in Evidence Based Medicine and                             Visualization (all ranks) Biostatistics at the Medical School. The                 The Department of Computer Science initial period for the fellowship is 1.5 to    at Tufts University invites applications for          2 years. A Ph.D. in Computer Science in           a faculty appointment in Graphics and/ the area of machine learning is required.       or Visualization to begin in September Professional Opportunities The University of New Mexico is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and Educator. 2010. We are particularly interested For additional information about UNM see http://www.unm.edu Continued on Page 18 Page 17

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Professional Opportunities The ideal candidate is expert in both Information Act and persons hired must University of Massachusetts earned doctoral degree (or must receive information extraction and algorithms have proof of legal authority to work in Boston the degree prior to the appointment for social network analysis. the United States. Department of Computer Science - www. date) in Computer Engineering, The start date is negotiable, but cs.umb.edu Computer Science, or a closely related applicants who can start in the next University of California, Merced Assistant Professor field. Applicant’s record must include few months are preferred. Applications School of Engineering The Computer Science Department an indication of quality research such as should be submitted online at Tenured and Tenure-Track Professorships at the University of Massachusetts high quality publications. The preferred AcademicJobsOnline.org and should in EECS Boston invites applications for Fall research areas include but are not limited include a curriculum vitae, a brief Applications are invited for tenured 2010 for one full-time tenure-track to Digital design, Hardware/software summary of research, and three letters and tenure-track faculty positions in Assistant Professor position in Network co-design, and CAD. Duties include teach of recommendation. To apply for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Security. We are most interested in at the graduate and/or undergraduate position go to: Science to begin July 1, 2010. We seek a network researcher who wants to levels in areas of disciplinary expertise https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/ exceptionally qualified candidates in teach in, and develop curriculum and in other CSE areas, conduct research TuftsCS/ComputerScience/257 all areas of Electrical Engineering and for, a new and growing Information and supervise graduate students. Review All applications received before Computer Science. A Ph.D. in Electrical Technology major with an emphasis of applications will begin on January 4, 12/15/09 will be considered. Engineering or Computer Science or a in System Administration. We offer 2010 and will continue until the search Tufts University is an Affirmative related field and demonstrated excellence a BS in Computer Science, a BS in is closed. Action/Equal Opportunity employer. in research are required. Information Technology, an MS with an For additional information and to We are committed to increasing the For more information: emphasis on software engineering, and apply please visit: https://facultyjobs.unt. diversity of our faculty. Members of http://eecs.ucmerced.edu a Ph.D. in computer science. Current edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50584 underrepresented groups are strongly AA/EOE faculty interests include bioinformatics, and submit a letter of application, encouraged to apply. computer and human vision, data curriculum vitae along with three letters of University of Delaware mining, databases, information recommendation. University of Arkansas — Department of Computer and Information technology, networks, software More information about the Fayetteville Sciences engineering, system modeling, and department can be found at: College of Engineering Two Faculty Positions theoretical computer science. http://www.cse.unt.edu/ Computer Engineering - Assistant Applications are invited for tenure- Evidence of significant research UNT is an AA/ADA/EOE Professor track faculty positions in two new potential and a PhD in computer science The University of Arkansas — programs to begin Fall 2010: or a related area are required. We offer a University of Ontario Institute of Fayetteville, a leader in engineering • Software Engineering Faculty Position competitive salary and a generous start-up Technology (UOIT) education and research, is seeking (#4759) package. Send cover letter, curriculum Digital Technologies for Collaborative applications for tenure track faculty • Bioinformatics & Computational vitae, statements about research and Knowledge Discovery positions at the Assistant Professor rank. Biology Faculty Position (#4807) teaching, and the names and email Canada Research Chair The College of Engineering offers ten We are introducing an MS program addresses of three references to: The University of Ontario Institute of ABET accredited degrees and Ph.D. in Software Engineering. The new faculty [email protected]. Technology (UOIT) invites applications programs through its seven departments. member will have the opportunity to Our campus overlooks Boston for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in The college has 1,775 undergraduate, play a major role in this as well as our harbor; our faculty and students enjoy Digital Technologies appointment. The 750 graduate students and supports 33 undergraduate and PhD programs. More professional life in a center of academia chair is expected to provide visionary and endowed faculty chairs/professorships. information is available at: and the software industry. For more transformative leadership in developing During the past year, the research http://www.cis.udel.edu/SEposition information, visit us at http://www. digital technologies for the discovery, expenditures of the college totaled $23.7 Additionally, we have recently cs.umb.edu. construction, visualization, cataloguing, million. established the Center for Bioinformatics Review of applications has begun and and dissemination of knowledge. This • Successful candidates are expected & Computational Biology and are will continue until the position is filled. leadership will be directed to applying to be placed in Biological and establishing a new graduate degree UMass Boston is an affirmative action, advances in digital technologies to Agricultural, Chemical, Civil, program in the discipline. The Center has equal opportunity Title IX employer. research and teaching in all faculties of the Computer Science and Computer affiliated faculty from over 10 departments university and more broadly to the local, Engineering, Electrical, Industrial across four colleges. More information is University of North Texas national and international communities. or Mechanical Engineering and will available at: Department of Computer Science and The chair should have strong technical be specialists in one or more of the http://bioinformatics.udel.edu/ Engineering expertise in a field such as computer following areas: facultysearch Faculty Position science, information technology or • Sustainable, renewable and alternative The University of Delaware is an Equal Applications and nominations are software engineering, as well as in areas energy sources, and distributed power Opportunity Employer which encourages invited for an Assistant Professor position such as communication, education, social generation applications from Minority Group in the Department of Computer Science science or law. • Biomolecular materials and processes Members and Women. and Engineering at the University of Applications will be accepted until Sustainable/alternative construction North Texas. Applicant must hold an February 1, 2010 or until a suitable materials for transportation systems University of Kentucky • Pervasive computing, parallel and Computer Science Department distributed architectures, cloud Assistant Professor computing, agile and adaptive systems, The University of Kentucky Computer security models Science Department invites applications Applicants must hold a Ph.D. and for a tenure-track position beginning be capable of developing independent August 15, 2010 at the assistant professor Department Head, Computer Science and collaborative research and teaching level in vision/graphics. Candidates Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

programs. A demonstrated research must have a PhD in Computer Science. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a private, research-oriented university in record and potential are required in Specific information about the position Troy, New York, is undergoing unprecedented growth in the area of addition to a competitive record of and the application process is available Biotechnology, Information Technology and Nanotechnology and enabling publications. Women and candidates from at http://www.cs.uky.edu/employment/ fields as a result of major capital investments and faculty hires guided by the Rensselaer Plan (http://www.rpi.edu/president/plan/index.html). underrepresented minority groups are positions.php. strongly encouraged to apply. The University of Kentucky Computer The Department Head in Computer Science will work with the administration Please submit an electronic copy of Science Doctoral Program recently ranked and faculty to create and implement strategies for faculty recruitment and expansion of the graduate and undergraduate programs in Computer Science your curriculum vitae and a one page in the top 20% of such programs (30 commensurate with the Rensselaer Plan. cover letter using the Online Form. out of 157) in a nationwide analysis. Review of applications will begin on The rankings — produced by Academic The successful candidate must bring an established reputation in research and December 1, 2009 and will continue until Analytics — are based on the Faculty teaching that complements the existing strengths and needs in the department. The successful candidate will also show evidence of administrative experience the positions are filled. Scholarly Productivity Index(tm), a and leadership. An earned Ph.D. or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or For additional information, you may measure of actual faculty publication, closely related field is required. The candidate must be qualified for a tenured contact: citation, and funding rates. Among faculty position.

University of Arkansas doctoral programs at public universities, Applicants will submit a curriculum vitae/resume, a description of research College of Engineering UKCS was ranked 16th. plans and names of at least three references to Chair of Department Head Kathy Jones—Assistant to the Dean The University of Kentucky is an equal Search Committee, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Bell Engineering Center, room 4183 opportunity employer and encourages Institute, 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent to [email protected]. The search will begin immediately Fayetteville, AR 72701 applications from minorities and women. and remain open until the position is filled. See also http://www.cs.rpi.edu The University of Arkansas is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome candidates who will bring diverse intellectual, All applicants are subject to public geographical, gender and ethnic perspectives to Rensselaer’s work and disclosure under the Arkansas Freedom of campus communities.

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Professional Opportunities candidate is found. For detailed University of Rochester will also be considered for an endowed UTPA is situated in the lower Rio information on UOIT, the chair position Department of Computer Science chair position. Grande valley of south Texas, a strategic and the application process, please visit Assistant to Full Professor of Computer The UTA College of Engineering location at the center of social and www.uoit.ca/09-71. Science provides the most comprehensive economic change. With a population of UOIT is an equal opportunity The UR Department of Computer engineering program in North Texas and over one million, the Rio Grande Valley employer and welcomes applications Science seeks applicants for a tenure- one of the most comprehensive in the is one of the fastest growing regions in the from qualified women and men, track position for 2010. Candidates in nation with eight baccalaureate programs, country. The region has a very affordable including members of visible minorities, computer vision, machine learning, twelve master’s and ten doctoral. The cost-of-living. UTPA is a leading educator Aboriginal Peoples and persons with networks, security, or algorithms are of college has over 3,700 students and seven of Hispanic/Latino students, with disabilities. particular interest, but strong applicants academic departments. The college has enrollment of 18,400. from all areas of computer science state-of-the-art facilities at the Nanofab The positions start Fall 2010. Salaries University of Pittsburgh are welcome. Candidates must have Research and Teaching Facility (www. are competitive. Please send: (1) a cover School of Information Sciences a PhD in computer science or related nanofab.uta.edu), the Characterization letter noting your specialization, (2) vitae, Tenure-Stream Faculty Position discipline. Senior candidates should have Center for Materials and Biology (http:// (3) statements of teaching and research The School of Information Sciences an extraordinary record of scholarship, ccmb.uta.edu) and an institute dedicated interests, and (4) names and contact (http://www.ischool.pitt.edu) at the leadership, and funding. to research in robotics and automation information of at least three references to: University of Pittsburgh is seeking The Department of Computer Science (www.arri.uta.edu). The college is in the Dean’s Office candidates for a tenure-stream faculty is one of the best small, research-oriented midst of a major expansion program with Computer Engineering Search position at the Assistant Professor departments in the nation, with an the recent or near completion of three new College of Science and Engineering level in the Telecommunications and unusually collaborative culture and strong engineering construction projects including The University of Texas-Pan American Networking Program starting in the fall ties to cognitive science, linguistics, and the Engineering Research Building, the 1201 W. University Drive term of 2010. Applicants must have a electrical and computer engineering. Civil Engineering Laboratory Building, Edinburg, Texas 78541-2999 strong commitment to and record in Over the past decade, a third of its PhD and the Engineering Laboratory Building. Email: [email protected] research and scholarly activities. Research graduates have won tenure-track faculty Over the last five years, faculty size has Review of materials will begin interests of the applicants should be in positions, and its alumni include leaders been increased from 100 to over 160, and immediately and continue until the one or more of the following areas: at major research laboratories such as research expenditures have increased from position is filled. Networking aspects of cloud Google, Microsoft, and IBM. $12M to over $40M annually. NOTE: UTPA is an Equal computing, data centers, and storage The University of Rochester is a The University is located in the center Opportunity/Affirmative Action networks private, Tier I research institution of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex (the employer. Women, racial/ethnic Network management or security located in western New York State. The nation’s fourth largest metropolitan area minorities and persons with disabilities related to emerging network computing University of Rochester consistently ranks with a population of over 6 million) which are encouraged to apply. This position applications (e.g., social computing) among the top 30 institutions, both has the largest concentration of high-tech is security-sensitive as defined by the Network Protocols public and private, in federal funding industry in the State of Texas and second Texas Education Code §51.215(c) and Large scale automated network for research and development. Half of its in the nation after silicon valley. The Texas Government Code §411.094(a) management and anomaly/fault diagnosis undergraduates go on to post-graduate college fosters a collaborative and collegial (2). Texas law requires faculty members Networked and mobile applications or professional education. The university culture with strong interdisciplinary whose primary language is not English The faculty member in this includes the Eastman School of Music, research teams and ties to the region’s to demonstrate proficiency in English as area is expected to contribute to a premiere music conservatory, and the extensive number of high technology determined by a satisfactory grade on the undergraduate and graduate education University of Rochester Medical Center, companies. International Test of English as a Foreign with teaching interests and practical a major medical school, research center, Applications including a curriculum Language (TOEFL). expertise in computer networks, and hospital system. The Rochester vitae, cover letter, and the names of five network management, and application area features a wealth of cultural and references will be accepted through online University of Toronto development. recreational opportunities, excellent submission at: UTSC: Computer & Mathematical Candidates with (or expecting) a Ph.D. public and private schools, and a low cost www.uta.edu/engineering/ Sciences in Computer Science or closely related of living. distinguishedfacultysearch Assistant Professor -Computer Science field are encouraged to apply. Electronic Candidates should apply online at Inquiries about the position may be -0900922 applications should be sent to telesearch@ http://www.cs.rochester.edu/recruit. directed to: Job Field: Tenure Stream sis.pitt.edu. Applications should include Review of applications will begin on Professor E.I. Meletis, Chair Search Faculty / Division: University of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and Dec. 1, 2009, and continue until all Committee ([email protected] or 817-272- Toronto Scarborough the names, addresses (with e-mail), and interview openings are filled. The 2398). Campus: Scarborough telephone numbers of three references. University of Rochester has a strong Review of applications will begin Posting Date: 3010ctl09 For full consideration, applications must commitment to diversity and actively immediately and continue until the Closing Date: 17/Jan/10 be received by January 31, 2010. encourages applications from candidates position is filled. This is a security The Department of Computer and Dr. Martin B. Weiss, Associate from groups underrepresented in higher sensitive position, and a criminal Mathematical Sciences, University of Professor education. The University is an Equal background check will be conducted Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), and the Chair, Search Committee Opportunity Employer. on finalists. The University of Texas at Graduate Department of Computer School of Information Sciences Arlington is an Equal Opportunity & Science, University of Toronto, invite University of Pittsburgh The University of Texas at Affirmative Action Employer. applications for a tenure-stream 720A IS Building Arlington appointment at the rank of Assistant 135 N. Bellefield Avenue College of Engineering University of Texas-Pan American Professor, to begin July 1, 2010. Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Associate/Full Professor Position Computer Science Department We are interested in candidates with Successful candidates will demonstrate The College of Engineering at the Assistant Professor Faculty Positions research expertise in Computer Systems, a strong interest and current awareness University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) The Department of Computer Science including Operating Systems, Networks, of the technological and cultural context invites applications for a senior faculty (CS) at the University of Texas-Pan Distributed Systems, Database Systems, in which their knowledge contributes position at the Associate/Full Professor American (UTPA) seeks applications Computer Architecture, Programming to issues of contemporary society. (tenured) level. The candidate must have for two tenure-track Assistant Professor Languages, and Software Engineering. The iSchool at Pitt is a top-ranked outstanding academic qualifications positions in Computer Engineering The University of Toronto is an information school and emphasizes and stature, demonstrated excellence (F09/10-18). All candidates must have international leader in computer the synthesis of people, information in teaching, a nationally competitive a potential/proven record in teaching science research and education, and and technology. The iSchool offers externally funded research program and and active research. The positions the Department of Computer and opportunities for research, instruction, national and international recognition. require a Ph.D. in computer science, Mathematical Sciences enjoys strong ties and service spanning the diverse needs Outstanding candidates in all engineering computer engineering or a closely related to other units within the University. The and interests of an information-intensive, disciplines will be considered. Preferred area. . Highest priority will be given to successful candidate for this position multi-cultural, and increasingly digital research areas include but not limited candidates who can support the software will be expected to participate actively in society. Degree programs offered in the to nano-scale materials, sensors, devices track of the Computer Engineering the Graduate Department of Computer school include the BSIS, MST, MSIS, and systems, micro- and nano-fabrication, program with expertise in software Science at the University of Toronto, as MLIS, and Ph.D. programs. Further computer engineering, computational engineering and databases. well as to contribute to the enrichment of information regarding the School and materials and application of these fields The program is administered jointly computer science academic programs at this position can be found at: to human health, energy, environment/ by the CS Department and the Electrical the University’s Scarborough campus. www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/ sustainability and security. The position Engineering (EE) department leading to Candidates should have, or be facultyopenings.php is interdisciplinary and the candidate BS degree in Computer Engineering. The about to receive, a Ph.D. in computer The University of Pittsburgh is an must demonstrate leadership to interface department also offers the BSCS (ABET/ science or a related field. They must Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action with faculty in both the sciences and CAC Accredited) and BS undergraduate demonstrate an ability to pursue employer and strongly encourages women engineering. The compensation package degrees, MS in Computer Science and innovative research at the highest level, and candidates from under-represented is competitive and will be commensurate MS in Information Technology. http:// Professional Opportunities minorities to apply. with qualifications. Exceptional candidates cs.panam.edu Continued on Page 20 Page 19

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Professional Opportunities and a commitment to undergraduate We will consider applicants in all areas including operating systems, networking, synergistic program in digital media with and graduate teaching. Evidence of of computer science, but are especially security, programming languages, strong collaboration with faculty in the excellence in teaching and research is interested in applicants who will help compilers, software engineering, and College of Fine Arts. necessary. Salary will be commensurate advance our curriculum in computer testbeds. The group has been a part of These new hires will work with with qualifications and experience. systems and software engineering. research initiatives sponsored by NSF, Digital Media faculty in the Film Studies Application materials, including The University of Toronto is an DARPA and several major companies. Division in the College of Fine Arts and curriculum vitae, research statement, international leader in computer One of the group’s ongoing and best- Digital Media Faculty in the School of teaching statement, and three to five science research and education, and known projects is Emulab, a network Computing in the College of Engineering. letters of recommendation, should be the Department of Computer and testbed with global impact. The Emulab These positions are part of the Utah submitted online at www.mathjobs.org, Mathematical Sciences enjoys strong ties software runs testbeds at dozens of Science, Technology and Research preferably well before our deadline of to other units within the University. sites, and the installation at Utah, in Initiative (USTAR) which was funded January 17, 2010. The successful candidate for this operation for eight years, is used by by the Utah State Legislature to attract PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE position will be encouraged to engage in thousands of researchers at hundreds of focused teams of outstanding researchers ONLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS collaborative research with other computer institutions worldwide. who have the potential of helping build AT: www.mathjob.org science faculty at the university, as well Applicants should have earned a major research programs and creating For more information about the as to contribute to the enrichment of Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely new technology that can ultimately Department of Computer & Mathematical computer science academic programs at related field. The University of Utah is lead to commercial products and/ Sciences @ UTSC, please visit our home the University’s Scarborough campus. located in Salt Lake City, the hub of a or new industries for Utah. For more page www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~csms. Candidates should have, or be about large metropolitan area with excellent information about USTAR, visit: http:// to receive, a Ph.D. in computer science or cultural facilities and unsurpassed ustar.utah.gov/ University of Toronto a related field. They must demonstrate an opportunities for outdoor recreation only The School of Computing offers a UTSC: Computer & Mathematical ability to pursue innovative research, and a few minutes’ drive away. Additional specialized M.S. and Ph.D. Computing Sciences a commitment to undergraduate teaching. information about the school can Degree graduate track in Computer Lecturer -Computer Science -0900916 Application materials, including be found at www.cs.utah.edu. Please Graphics and Visualization and has an Job Field: Teaching Stream curriculum vitae, research statement, send curriculum vitae, a research goals Entertainment Arts and Engineering Faculty / Division: University of teaching statement, and three to five statement, a teaching goals statement, program at the undergraduate level Toronto Scarborough letters of recommendation, should be and names and addresses of at least four that spans art and computer science. Campus: Scarborough submitted online at www.mathjobs.org, references to: Applicants should have earned a Ph.D. Posting Date: 30/0ctl09 preferably well before our deadline of Faculty Recruiting Committee in Computer Science or a closely Closing Date: 01/Mar/10 January 17, 2010. c/o Mr. Chris Coleman related field. The Department of Computer and The University of Toronto is [email protected] The University of Utah is located Mathematical Sciences, University of strongly committed to diversity within Via email in PDF format in Salt Lake City, the hub of a large Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), invites its community and especially welcomes Applications will be evaluated as metropolitan area with excellent cultural applications for a full-time position in applications from visible minority group received until the position is filled. offerings and unsurpassed opportunities Computer Science at the rank of Lecturer, members, women, Aboriginal persons, Applicants are encouraged to apply at for outdoor recreation only a few minutes’ to begin July 1, 2010. persons with disabilities, members of their earliest convenience. drive away. Additional information about Responsibilities include lecturing, sexual minority groups, and others The University of Utah is an Equal the School of Computing can be found at conducting tutorials, grading, and who may contribute to the further Opportunity, Affirmative Action www.cs.utah.edu. curriculum development in a variety of diversification of ideas. All qualified Employer and encourages nominations Please send curriculum vitae, a undergraduate courses. candidates are encouraged to apply; and applications from women and research goals statement, a teaching goals We are especially interested in however, Canadians and permanent minorities, and provides reasonable statement, and names and addresses of candidates who will help advance our residents will be given priority. accommodation to the known disabilities at least four references via email in PDF curriculum in the areas of computer The Mendelzon Visiting Assistant of applicants and employees. format to: systems, computer architecture, and Professorship is a position created in The University of Utah values USTAR Faculty Recruiting Committee software engineering. memory of Alberto Mendelzon, FRSC, candidates who have experience working c/o Mr. Chris Coleman Candidates should have a post- distinguished computer scientist, and in settings with students from diverse [email protected] graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in former chair of the Department of backgrounds, and possess a strong The University of Utah is an Equal Computer Science or a related field, and Computer and Mathematical Sciences, commitment to improving access Opportunity, Affirmative Action must demonstrate potential for excellence University of Toronto Scarborough. to higher education for historically Employer and encourages nominations in teaching at the undergraduate level. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE underrepresented students and applications from women and Appointments at the rank of Lecturer may ONLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS minorities, and provides reasonable be renewed annually to a maximum of five AT: www.mathjobs.org University of Utah accommodation to the known disabilities years. In the fifth year of service, Lecturers For more information about the School of Computing of applicants and employees. shall be reviewed and a recommendation Department of Computer & Mathematical Faculty Positions in Digital Media The University of Utah values made with respect to promotion to the Sciences @ UTSC, please visit our home The School of Computing at the candidates who have experience working rank of Senior Lecturer. page: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~csms University of Utah seeks multiple hires in in settings with students from diverse Salary will be commensurate with the field of Digital Media. backgrounds, and possess a strong qualifications and experience. University of Utah We seek two outstanding faculty commitment to improving access Application materials, including Computer Science Department members in digital media (computer to higher education for historically curriculum vitae, a statement of career Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position graphics, animation, computer games, underrepresented students. The University goals and teaching philosophy, evidence for the Jay Lepreau Professorship computational photography, or other of Utah is sensitive and responsive to ‘two- of teaching excellence, and a minimum The University of Utah’s School related area). One tenured position at body problems’ and has a positive history of three reference letters should be of Computing is seeking to hire an the rank of associate or full professor of assisting with opportunities in the Salt submitted online at: www.mathjobs.org, outstanding tenure-track or tenured and one tenure track position at the Lake City area. preferably well before our deadline of senior faculty member in systems, with a rank of assistant professor. Since the March 1, 2010. particular emphasis on operating systems, 1960s when pioneering graphics research University of Washington PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE testbeds, or networks. This professorship became a core focus at Utah, there has Computer Science & Engineering ONLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS is named in honor of Jay Lepreau, a been a vibrant congenial community Tenure-Track, Research, and Teaching AT: www.mathjobs.org professor of Computer Science at Utah. supporting this activity. Being one of Faculty, Ref. #AA2439 For more information about Candidates for this position should the oldest and most successful graphics The University of Washington’s the Department of Computer & have an established record of leadership programs in the nation, Utah and its Department of Computer Science & Mathematical Sciences @ UTSC, please and an interest in large-scale systems alums have played a prominent role in Engineering has one or more open visit our home at: www.utsc.utoronto. research. To assist in discharging research the birth and explosive development positions in a wide variety of technical ca/~csms and leadership obligations, successful of computer graphics. Our program areas in both Computer Science applicants for this position will have a includes large, multi-investigator efforts and Computer Engineering, and at University of Toronto Scarborough reduced teaching load and an endowment addressing large-scale problems of all professional levels. A moderate Department of Computer and Mathematical providing funding into perpetuity. significant impact, as well as a number teaching load allows time for quality Sciences This professorship provides an of individual investigator research research and close involvement with Mendelzon Visiting Assistant Professor opportunity to work closely with the activities. Currently, computer graphics students. Our space in the Paul G. Computer Science Limited-term Flux Research Group, which Jay founded research has strong programs in scientific Allen Center for Computer Science The Department of Computer and and led. This well-established group visualization, physical simulation & Engineering provides opportunities Mathematical Sciences, University of of research staff and students is more for computer animation, geometry for new projects and initiatives. The Toronto Scarborough invites applications than a dozen years old and draws on processing, modeling/manufacturing, Seattle area is particularly attractive given for a non-tenure-stream, two-year decades-long history of strong systems and perception. We wish to build upon the presence of significant industrial appointment as the Mendelzon Visiting research at Utah. Its past and ongoing these successful areas with dynamic research laboratories as well as a vibrant Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2010. projects span a range of systems topics researchers seeking to develop a strong technology- driven entrepreneurial

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Professional Opportunities community that further enhances the February 1, 2010 will be given priority A moderate teaching and service load above, highlighting their leadership, intellectual atmosphere. Information consideration. Open positions are allows time for quality research and close research, service and teaching. Applicants about the department can be found on contingent on funding. involvement with students. The CSE and must also provide a curriculum vitae, and the web at http://www.cs.washington.edu. The University of Washington was EE departments are co-located on campus, names and contact information for five We welcome applicants in all awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Award for enabling cross department collaborations references. Submit materials electronically research areas in Computer Science and Faculty Career Flexibility in 2006. In and initiatives. The Seattle area is to [email protected]. Computer Engineering including both addition, the University of Washington particularly attractive given the presence of Screening of applicants will begin core and inter-disciplinary areas. Areas is a recipient of a National Science significant industrial research laboratories, January 3rd, and will continue until the of interest include (but are not limited Foundation ADVANCE Institutional a vibrant technology-driven entrepreneurial position is filled. Questions should be to) security, computer engineering, and Transformation Award to increase the community, and spectacular natural beauty. addressed to Search Committee Chair, Dr. systems. We expect candidates to have participation of women in academic Information about ExCEL can be found at Rich Furman at [email protected]. a strong commitment both to research science and engineering careers. We are http://www.excel.washington.edu. edu or by phone at (253) 692-4848. For and to teaching. The department is building a culturally diverse faculty and We welcome applications in all the complete position description, please primarily seeking individuals at the encourage applications from women and computer engineering areas including visit our website: tenure-track Assistant Professor rank; minority candidates. The University of but not exclusively: atomic-scale devices http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/ however, under unusual circumstances Washington is an affirmative action, equal & nanotechnology, implantable and academic_affairs/job_opportunities.html and commensurate with the qualifications opportunity employer. biologically-interfaced devices, synthetic The University of Washington is of the individual, appointments may molecular engineering, VLSI systems building a culturally diverse faculty be made at the rank of Associate University of Washington and CAD, embedded systems, sensor and strongly encourages racial and Professor or Professor. We may also be Computer Science & Engineering and systems, parallel computing, network ethnic minorities, women, and persons seeking non-tenured research faculty Electrical Engineering systems, and technology for the developing with disabilities to apply. University of at Assistant, Associate and Professor Tenure-Track and Research Faculty, Ref. world. We expect candidates to have a Washington Tacoma faculty engage in levels, postdoctoral researchers (Research AA2440 strong commitment both to research and teaching, research, and service. Associates) and part-time and full-time The University of Washington’s teaching. ExCEL is seeking individuals The position is contingent upon annual lecturers and Sr. Lecturers. Department of Computer Science & at all career levels, with appointments funding. Applicants for both tenure-track and Engineering and Department of Electrical commensurate with the candidate’s research positions must have earned a Engineering have jointly formed a new qualifications and experience. Applicants University of Waterloo doctorate by the date of appointment; UW Experimental Computer Engineering for both tenure-track and research Department of Management Sciences those applying for lecturer positions must Lab (ExCEL). In support of this effort, positions must have earned a PhD by the Faculty Positions in Human-Computer have earned at least a Master’s degree. the College of Engineering has committed date of appointment. Interaction Research Associates, Lecturers and Sr. to hiring several new faculty over the Please apply online at Sciences at the University of Waterloo multi-annual appointment. All University dual appointments in both departments with a letter of application, a complete invites applications for full-time faculty of Washington faculty engage in teaching, (with precise percentages as appropriate curriculum vitae, statement of research appointments in Information Systems research and service. for the candidate). This year, we have one and teaching interests, and the names at any level to start any time in 2010. Please apply online at http://www. open position, and encourage exceptional of at least four references. Applications Applicants should hold a PhD, or be cs.washington.edu/news/jobs.html candidates in computer engineering, at received by February 1st, 2010 will be given near completion of their doctorate, with a letter of application, a complete tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate priority consideration. Open positions are and have demonstrated research and curriculum vitae, statement of research Professor, or Professor, or Research contingent on funding. teaching potential in industrial/ and teaching interests, and the names of Assistant Professor, Research Associate The University of Washington was systems engineering, computer science four references. Applications received by Professor, or Research Professor to apply. awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Award for or related fields. An undergraduate Faculty Career Flexibility in 2006. In degree in engineering will be an asset. addition, the University of Washington is a Examples of courses that could be taught recipient of a National Science Foundation by the successful candidate include ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Human-Computer Interaction, Digital    Award to increase the participation Computation, Algorithms and Data    of woman in academic science and Structures, Database Systems, Information engineering careers. We are building a Systems Analysis and Design, Principles    culturally diverse faculty and encourage of Software Engineering and Decision  applications from women and minority Support Systems. candidates. The University of Washington For the complete advertisement and        is an affirmative action, equal opportunity application instructions, please see:  employer. http://www.mansci.uwaterloo.ca              University of Washington Tacoma University of Wisconsin-Madison            Institute of Technology Computer Sciences Department           Director of the Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,           (Associate or Full Professor) or Professor of Computer Sciences            The University of Washington Tacoma The Computer Sciences Department           (UWT) is accepting applications and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison            nominations for a full-time, 12 month has an opening for a tenure-track Assistant           position as Director of the Institute of Professor in any area of Computer        Technology, beginning July 1, 2010. The Sciences, or a tenured Associate or        successful candidate will have experience Full Professor with a specialization              in academic leadership, possess a capacity in programming languages/software              for strategic planning and assessment, engineering/verification. In addition            and the skills needed to build and engage to programming languages/software           community partnerships, particularly engineering we are especially interested           with industry and community colleges in in candidates in HCI, theory, natural              the region. language processing, and robotics, but our            Ideal candidates should have a search is not limited to these areas.             commitment to developing emerging and Applicants must have a Ph.D. in            interdisciplinary programs.  Successful  Computer Sciences or in a closely           candidates will also possess expertise related field prior to the start of the           in teaching and research  appropriate to appointment. Candidates for a tenured         their rank.    appointment must have a record of An earned Ph.D. in Computing, distinguished teaching and scholarly            Information, Engineering or related fields research. Candidates for a tenure-track         is required. Candidates must be eligible appointment must show potential for              for appointment at the rank of Associate developing outstanding and highly visible         or Full Professor. scholarly research as well as excellence in                Salary and benefits are competitive undergraduate and graduate teaching.                 and commensurate with credentials. Applicants should submit a curriculum            Applicants should submit a cover letter vitae, a statement of research objectives discussing the applicant’s fit with the Professional Opportunities UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO qualifications and responsibilities outlined Continued on Page 22 Page 21

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Professional Opportunities and sample publications, and arrange to Inquiries Directed to: Wentworth Institute of Technology laboratory is involved in several projects have at least three letters of reference sent University of Wyoming Computer Science Department in scientific visualization and biomedical directly to the department. Electronic Computer Science Department Assistant Professor image analysis. The Post-Doctoral submission of all application materials is Jerry Hamann, Dept. Head Full-time faculty position starting Researcher will specifically be involved preferred (see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ [email protected] in 2010. Preference will be given to in the research team for advancing tools recruiting for details). Dept. 3315, 1000 E. University candidates with significant expertise in to analyze CT-scanned human hearts by Applicants are encouraged to submit Avenue at least one of the following areas: (1) extracting various geometric properties their applications along with supporting Laramie, WY 82071, USA Games programming; (2) Networking; to improve the detection of diffuse material as soon as possible, but no later Instructions for electronic submission: (3) Bioinformatics. In addition, coronary artery disease. The Advanced than January 15, 2010 to ensure full http://www.cs.uwyo.edu candidates should be able to teach Visual Data Analysis laboratory provides consideration. The University of Wyoming is standard undergraduate courses in a friendly work environment with the The University is an Equal a Carnegie Foundation Research/ areas including Network Technology, opportunity to work directly with students Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer Doctoral Extensive Institution, and Operating Systems, Object-Oriented of Computer Science. The successful and encourages women and minorities to adheres to the principles of equal Programming (C++ and Java), C, applicant is required to have an earned apply. Unless confidentiality is requested employment opportunity and diversity Database Management, Algorithm Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or in writing, information regarding the and welcomes applications from Design, Software Design, etc. a related field and is expected to be applicants must be released upon qualified individuals, independent Although the primary mission of the proficient in C++, image processing, request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed of race, color, religion, sex, national faculty is to teach undergraduate courses, computer graphics, and visualization and confidentiality. A criminal background origin, disability, age, veteran status, they are also expected to engage in familiar with a Linux environment. check may be conducted prior to hiring. sexual orientation or political belief. research and render service to the institute Applicants should provide a brief For further information, send mail to We welcome applications from diverse (such as undergraduate advising and statement of their research interests and [email protected]. groups, including women and people of serving on committees). goals. The application should include a color, and international candidates. Requirements: A PhD in Computer complete vitae with the names, addresses, University of Wyoming Science (or closely related field) or a telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech master’s degree plus significant teaching of at least two references, plus any Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and industrial experience is required. A additional supporting information. For The Computer Science Department Senior Position, Artificial Intelligence/ PhD in Computer Science is preferred. more information and to apply go to: at the University of Wyoming seeks Machine Learning Significant college-level teaching https://jobs.wright.edu/applicants/ applicants for a tenure-track faculty The Department of Computer experience is also preferred. Central?quickFind=51223 position at the assistant professor level to Science at Virginia Tech (www.cs.vt. To apply, please visit our online Consideration of candidates starts start Fall 2010. The Computer Science edu) invites applications for a full-time application site at: November 23, 2009. For details and Department is one of six departments in tenured position at the Professor or http://jobs.wit.edu/applicants/ information, you may call (937)775-5057 the College of Engineering and Applied Associate Professor rank from candidates Central?quickFind=50940 or contact Thomas Wischgoll, thomas. Science. The department offers B.S., in artificial intelligence with particular Wentworth is an AA/EEO employer. [email protected] M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer interests in machine learning, knowledge Women and minorities are encouraged Wright State University is an equal Science. The University has a strong representation, or data mining. to apply. Wentworth is a tobacco-free opportunity/affirmative action employer. and growing Computational Science Candidates should have an established campus. Program supported by several departments record of scholarship, leadership, and colleges. The successful candidate and collaboration in computing and Wright State University is expected to collaborate with one or interdisciplinary areas; demonstrated Department of Computer Science more of these departments and has an ability to contribute to teaching at the Post-Doctoral Researcher Position opportunity for collaboration with the undergraduate and graduate levels in AI The Advanced Visual Data Analysis National Center for Atmospheric Research and related subjects; sensitivity to issues laboratory of the Department of (NCAR), located in Boulder, Colorado, of diversity in the campus community; Computer Science and Engineering at approximately two hours distance from and the skills needed to establish and Wright State University seeks applicants campus. 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Applications must include: (a) a Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action curriculum vitae, (b) a statement of Institution. Computing Research Association Staff teaching interests, (c) a statement Applications must be submitted Andrew Bernat, Executive Director of research interests, and (d) at least online to https://jobs.vt.edu for posting Betsy Bizot, Program Evaluator three references. All applications on #090529. Applicant screening will begin Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs file by January 15, 2010, will receive January 15, 2010 and continue until Sabrina Jacob, Sr. Administrative Assistant full consideration, and the search will the position is filled. Inquiries should Patrick Krason, Manager of Administrative Support continue until the position is filled. be directed to Dennis Kafura, Hiring Melissa Norr, Policy Analyst Electronic submission of application Committee Chair, [email protected]. Kapil Patnaik, IT Manager/Webmaster materials should be completed on-line, Carla Romero, Director of Programs please refer to the following web link: Jean Smith, Sr. Communications Associate and CRN Editor

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About the Snowbird Conference: The biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird is the flagship invitation-only conference for the leadership of the North American computing research community. Invitees: Computer science, computer engineering, and information technology department chairs; assistant, associate, and prospective chairs; directors of graduate or undergraduate education; directors of industry or government research labs/centers; and professional society or government leaders in computing. The conference site: The Snowbird Resort is located in the Wasatch Mountains about 30 miles from Salt Lake City. A top-rated ski resort in the winter, off-season at Snowbird offers hiking amidst beautiful scenery. This year at Snowbird: Yoky Matsuoka, Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor at the University of Washington, will be the after-dinner speaker on the opening night of the conference. Her topic will be: “Move Better with a Robot.” One of the plenary speakers will be Dr. Regina E. Dugan who was sworn in as the 19th Director of DARPA on July 20, 2009. She will outline her vision for the Agency; the need for adaptability and discontinuity; the willingness to challenge one’s world view; and a conceptual framework for creating strategic surprise and disruptive changes. There will be numerous parallel workshop sessions, a workshop for new department chairs, a “State of the CRA” address, and presentation of the CRA Distinguished Service and A. Nico Habermann Awards. Below is a preliminary program that will continue to be updated on the CRA website (http://www.cra.org) as additional information becomes available. Online registration will open in April.

Plenary Sessions

1. Why Can’t Teaching Be More Like Research? 3. Making a Federal Case for Computing Chair: Lynn Andrea Stein (Olin College of Engineering) Chair: Fred Schneider (Cornell University) Speaker: Sally Fincher (University of Kent) Speaker: Peter Harsha (CRA)

2. Peer Review in Computing Research 4. Foresight and Flexibility Chair: H.V. Jagadish (University of Michigan) Chair: Peter Lee (DARPA) Panel Moderator: Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) Speaker: Regina Dugan (Director, DARPA) Speakers: Rich Baranuik (Rice University); Lance Fortnow (Northwestern University); Jeffrey Mogul (HP Labs); Jeannette Wing (NSF)

Workshops

• The CS/10K Project • Enriching Undergraduate Learning Through Apprenticeships The CS/10K Project aims to transform high school computing with Learning a discipline and preparing for a profession benefit greatly from a rigorous and well-taught curriculum centered on a completely new exposure to a variety of teachers, each helping to develop a student’s Advanced Placement (AP) course. The new course will not replace AP education through his or her own experience. This workshop explores CS A, but will provide a more accessible option for students. It will be three modes of apprenticeship: co-operative education, research rigorous, but also engaging and inspiring. It will not be programming- internships, and mentorships. Co-operative programs supplement centric, but instead will focus on the fundamental concepts of academic teachers with managers and senior co-workers from industry computing, while exposing students to its breadth of application and and government. Research internships provide opportunities to work “magic.” This panel covers the motivation, design methodology, and with senior researchers from academic or industrial laboratories. current thinking for the new course in the larger context of high school Mentorships engage experienced professionals to motivate and guide computing curriculum. students towards their objectives. Each speaker will outline a form of Chair: Jan Cuny (NSF) apprenticeship and describe how to incorporate it, or improve it, within Panel: TBA your undergraduate program. Chair: Frank Tompa (University of Waterloo) • CRA-E Report on Basic Computing Knowledge Panel: Arnie Dyck (University of Waterloo), CRA-E was created by CRA to explore the issues of undergraduate Ran Libeskind-Hadas (Harvey Mudd College), education in computing and computational thinking for those who David Porush (MentorNet) will do research in disciplines from the sciences to the humanities. The committee generated six recommendations in two main themes: • CCC Workshop on Discovery and Innovation in Health IT mechanisms for refactoring the computer science curricula that provide Chair: Susan Graham (University of California, Berkeley) a flexible and adaptable range of options, and issues of mind skills Panel: TBA and mastery that pervade the entire curriculum, from introductory “attractor” courses through the advanced courses taken by seniors Workshops continued on next page heading to graduate school. In this session, we will discuss these recommendations. Chair: Mary Fernandez (AT&T Labs Research) Speaker: Andries van Dam (Brown University)

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• Education in the Magic Circle: The Promise of Games • The Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program A strong motivator for students entering computer science programs is a The past year’s economic downturn caused universities and companies desire to create computer games. This session will present success stories to severely curtail their hiring of new PhDs in computing fields. In from several computer science departments that have dramatically February 2009, when it became clear that many new PhDs were in and persistently increased their enrollments by offering strong, game- danger of falling out of research and education careers, a project was oriented degree programs. Games also can be inspirational for K-12 undertaken, with support from NSF, to create opportunities for at education: we present an update on efforts to use computer games as a least some new PhDs to start careers at top research and education means of educating students in traditional K-12 subjects. organizations, thereby saving the large investments that have been Co-Chairs: Michael Mateas (University of California, Santa Cruz) and made in their training and education. In this session, we will review the John Nordlinger (Microsoft) origins, structure, and process of the CIFellows Project. We will discuss some preliminary lessons learned, plans for continued assessment, and • Computer Science and Global Development: possibilities for the future. Ultimately, the future of CIFellows will be A New High-Impact Research Area determined by engaging the community, starting with this session at There has been a recent explosion in the use of information and Snowbird. communication technologies (particularly mobile phones) in many Speaker: Peter Lee (DARPA) developing countries. These technologies have the potential to aid in many global development efforts, including those focusing on • Understanding and Using Graduate Program Rankings in Computer public health, sustainable livelihood development, the environment Science and education. Computer Science researchers have been assisting in Computer Science rankings, whether by the National Research Council, these efforts by developing novel approaches for long-distance wireless The US News and World Reports, or by any of several other groups networking, human-computer interaction for different literacy levels and generate considerable discussion among faculty, students, and academic cultures and low-cost computing devices, among other areas. Technical administration alike. In this panel, we overview several different research must be inherently multi-disciplinary, as it seeks to use the tools ranking efforts of graduate programs and research activity in computer and techniques of Computer Science to address problems faced by these science departments and the methodologies by which these rankings domains. This session will summarize and discuss some of these efforts, are established. We also discuss various perspectives on how rankings and provide a brief overview of this new but growing field. We will also might be used by various individuals, and will have an open discussion discuss our proposal for SIGDEV, a new ACM special interest group on what advice/perspectives that we, as a community, might want to focusing on this topic. provide to these individuals. Speakers: Tapan Parikh (University of California, Berkeley), and Chair: Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts) Lakshmi Subramanian (New York University) Panel: Charlotte Kuh (National Research Council) Other panelists (TBA) • Communicating Computer Science Computing has become extremely complex, especially with the rapid • CRA Guidelines for Coordinating Faculty Recruitment leaps made in the Internet, hardware, entertainment and information In 2008, the CRA Board considered the issue of faculty hiring practices, science. The trend over the past ten to fifteen years has been to present especially the timing of the process and associated gridlock as faculty computing via applications that are visual and application-oriented. candidates wait to hear from universities and vice versa. Several Computer scientists have been tasked with the challenge of making problems were identified with the current procedures and guidelines computing palatable to the general public, and this they have done were suggested for improvement. The effectiveness of the improvements royally with robotics, gaming, applications in medicine, sensors, early depends on how broadly they are implemented, and thus we need, education, to name a few. However, such exposure is at the expense as a community, to decide if we have a strong will to implement new of what is happening underneath. Thus the terminology of our core procedures. This session will review the CRA’s proposal, encourage open disciplines—graphics, languages, OS, AI, SE, networks—is much less discussion on the proposal, and discuss potential implementation. known. It is time to assess and reverse this trend. We will be looking at Chair: Jeffrey Vitter (Texas A&M University) novel ways to communicate our science to the public, to statesmen, and to university management. Speakers in this session have experience in a wide variety of public communication. Chair: Judith Bishop (Microsoft) Panel: TBA

For program details and registration information, please see the CRA website: http://www.cra.org; e-mail: [email protected].

Additional Opportunities at Snowbird:

CRA Board of Directors Meeting –­ July Workshop for New Department CRA-Deans’ Meeting – July 20-21– 17-18 Chairs – July 18 – Chair: Mark Gennert Debra Richardson (UC Irvine) (WPU), Barbara Ryder (Virginia Tech), and Darrell Whitley (Colorado State)

Conference Sponsors: ACM; Avaya; CA Labs; Google; IBM; Members Intel; Microsoft Research; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs; Sun Sarita Adve (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Judith Bishop Microsystems; and USENIX. (Microsoft Research); Ed Fox (Virginia Tech); H.V. Jagadish (Univer- sity of Michigan); Renée McCauley (College of Charleston); Bobby Organizing Committee Schnabel (Indiana University); Fred Schneider (Cornell University); Co-Chairs Mark Segal (National Security Agency); Lynn Andrea Stein (Olin David Notkin (University of Washington) Academic Co-Chair College); and Frank Tompa (University of Waterloo). Mary Fernández (ATT Labs – Research) Labs/Centers Co-Chair Page 24

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