Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 367.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Andrew Mactavish <mactavis@mcmaster.ca> (53)
Subject: Tenure-Track Job, McMaster University - Multimedia and
Digital Video
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (66)
Subject: PhD Studentships: Saarbruecken-Edinburgh
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:52:42 +0000
From: Andrew Mactavish <mactavis@mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Tenure-Track Job, McMaster University - Multimedia and
Digital Video
Multimedia and Digital Video
The School of the Arts at McMaster University invites applications for a
tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Multimedia and
Digital Video. The School of the Arts is one of the fastest growing
academic units in the Faculty of Humanities and provides an environment
that encourages interdisciplinary activities. The School houses an
innovative and highly successful BA Combined Honours in Multimedia. Current
Multimedia faculty research initiatives include IRIS (Infrastructure for
Research on Internet Streaming) and Text Technology: The Journal of
Computer Text Processing.
Applicants should have either an M.F.A. or a Ph.D. in Film Studies,
Communications, Fine Art, Drama, English or any discipline in which the
required skills and expertise have been obtained. Applicants should have
demonstrated experience teaching multimedia courses with hands-on creative
components. Teaching duties will include undergraduate courses in digital
video, animation, time-based media, and multimedia. The successful
applicant should have significant computer experience, including the
development of multimedia works with digital video components. Preference
will be given to candidates with a record or compelling promise of research
(practical and theoretical) in one or more of the following areas: Digital
Video, Video Art, New Media, or Hypermedia. Digital video practitioners who
engage with current theoretical paradigms are encouraged to apply.
Experience with Internet streaming media technologies and XML would be an
asset. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to
interdisciplinary programmes and scholarship within the School, and to
teaching, research and administration in the School, the Faculty of
Humanities and the University at large.
Letters of application, including curriculum vitae, and a portfolio of
multimedia and digital video work should be addressed to:
Dr. J. Deaville
Director, School of the Arts
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4M2.
Candidates should also arrange to have three letters of reference sent
directly to the above address.
McMaster University is a full-service university with a comprehensive set
of academic programmes, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, in
Business, Engineering, Health Sciences, Humanities, Science, and Social
Sciences. The Faculty of Humanities comprises seven core academic units,
with approximately 120 full-time Faculty, in a School of the Arts, and
Departments of Classics, English, French, History, Modern Languages, and
Philosophy. Approximately 1600 full-time and 450 part-time undergraduate
students and 170 graduate students are currently enrolled in Humanities
programmes. Additional information about the Faculty of Humanities may be
obtained at www.humanities.mcmaster.ca. The current minimum annual salary
at the Assistant Professor level is $43,662. Commencement date for the
appointment will be July 1, 2002. Applications received by December 31,
2001 will be assured of consideration. Canadian citizens and permanent
residents of Canada will be considered first for this position. McMaster
University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications
from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with
disabilities, members of visible minorities and women.
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:54:18 +0000
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: PhD Studentships: Saarbruecken-Edinburgh
>> From: Matthew Crocker <crocker@coli.uni-sb.de>
Saarland University is pleased to announce the availability of three
doctoral scholarships within the recently established
European Post-Graduate College
"Language Technology and Cognitive Systems"
Saarbruecken - Edinburgh
starting in April 1st, 2002. Each scholarship will be funded for two years
(extendable to three years). Doctoral degrees may be obtained in
computational linguistics, phonetics, and informatics (computer science),
from Saarland University.
The European Post-Graduate College has been established in cooperation
between Saarland University and the University of Edinburgh (Division of
Informatics) - two leading institutions in the fields of Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science who are
collaborating in offering a joint post-graduate education programme. The
cooperation includes
* a six to twelve months research stay in Edinburgh
* joint supervision of dissertations by lecturers from Saarbruecken and
Edinburgh
* an intensive research exchange programme between Saarbruecken and
Edinburgh (including, for example, an annual two-week forum
attended by
college members and lecturers from both centres)
The college focuses on the computational and cognitive foundations of human
language processing, particularly emphasising the following research areas:
* inference and reasoning
* knowledge representation, lexicon, and ontology
* data-intensive language models (including corpus-based and statistical
language modelling)
* dialogue and language generation (computational and cognitive models)
* language understanding
Lecturers in Saarbruecken are M. Pinkal, H. Uszkoreit (computational
linguistics), W. Barry (phonetics), M. Crocker (psycholinguistics), M.
Kohlhase, J. Siekmann, G. Smolka, W. Wahlster (informatics/AI). In
Edinburgh, lecturers include M. Fourman, E. Klein, A. Lascarides, C.
Mellish, J. Moore, J. Oberlander, M. Osborne, M. Pickering, M. Steedman, P.
Taylor, B. Webber, and C. Williams.
The scholarship provides up to DM 2,870 per month. Additional compensation
includes family allowance (where applicable), travel funding, and an
additional monthly allowance of approximately DM 1,410 for the stay in
Edinburgh.
Applicants should hold a strong university degree in one of the relevant
areas, preferably at the Masters level (equivalent to German Diplom) and
should not be more than 28 years of age. Female scientists and
international students are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications
should include:
1. a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications, where possible)
2. a sample of written work (e.g. research paper, or dissertation,
preferably in English)
3. copies of high school and university degree certificates
4. two references (to be sent directly to the college speaker)
5. an informal cover letter specifying interests, previous knowledge and
activities in any of the relevant research areas. The letter should
indicate the area in which the dissertation is to be conducted
(computational linguistics, phonetics, or informatics/AI): where
possible,
it should include a brief outline of research interests to be pursued
within the scholarship.
Applications should be sent (hardcopy format strongly preferred) to the
speaker of the college (see address below). Closing date for applications
is Dec 14th, 2001.
Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker)
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
P.O. Box 15 11 50
D-66041 Saarbruecken
Tel: +49 (0)681 302-6560 E-mail: egk-admin@coli.uni-sb.de
Fax: +49 (0)681 302-6561 Internet: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk
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