This new position has been created to further strengthen our
activities in software systems. Our present activities involve a
number of relevant areas, such as workflows and relaxed transaction
management, software process modeling, formal methods and tools for
concurrency, heterogeneous database access, scientific data
management, multiagent systems, machine learning, distributed
computing, multimedia, and human interfaces. Applications of interest
include education, healthcare, process control, and scientific
decision-support.
The new faculty member will find a lively and collegial work
environment. The department is in a period of rapid growth and
advancement, and is positioning itself to be at the forefront of
selected areas in computer science. We attract research sponsorship
from a variety of sources, including ARPA, AFOSR, EPA, NASA, NIH, NSF,
and ONR. Industrial sources include IBM, Fujitsu, Glaxo-Wellcome, and
others. The candidate will have access to our state-of-the-art
high-performance ATM-based networking, computational, and multimedia
facilities. In December, the department's Multimedia Laboratory, with
which the successful candidate will be affiliated, will move to a
5,000 sq. ft. space in the new $41 million Engineering Graduate
Research Center.
The university is located in Raleigh which forms one vertex of the
world-renowned Research Triangle. The Research Triangle area was
recently recognized as one of the "best places to live in" in the U.S.
It boasts a large concentration of high technology companies, such as
Alcatel, Data General, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Glaxo-Wellcome, IBM, Nortel
(Northern Telecom, Bell Northern Research) and the SAS Institute, and
research institutions such as EPA, NIEHS/NIH, and RTI.
Interested candidates should send their resume (including citizenship
and visa status) and the names of four references to:
Chair, Workflow Recruitment Committee
Department of Computer Science
226 Withers Hall
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8206, USA
Prospective candidates are encouraged to access the department's
homepage (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu) and to send email to
workflow@csc.ncsu.edu. The university is an Equal Opportunity,
Affirmative Action employer.
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