A venture company is looking for principal investigators able to start and coordinate entrepreneurial ventures over the net. You provide the idea, proposal, technical management, and commercial follow-through. They provide the money, management expertise, and marketing savvy. You keep all intellectual property rights, and can probably be chief scientist of your own company. Apply to nick@csoftec.csf.com. [P. Nick Lawrence (nlawrenc@ringer.cs.utsa.edu), m.j.o, 4/23/93.]

NSF/IRIS is seeking a visiting scientist (or "rotator") as Director of the Database and Expert Systems portion of its Knowledge and Database Systems program. (The program has been split into Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems -- including theoretical AI -- and Database and Expert Systems. Together they disburse about $12M/year -- 44% of the IRIS budget -- including perhaps $4M-$5M in new awards each year.) Requires an AI, KE, or DB specialty and at least 5 years beyond a CS/IS PhD. The position pays $55K to $86K, depending on your current pay. (Watch out: DC can be expensive!) An Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) arrangement is possible. Contact Dr. Y.T. Chien (ytchien@nsf.gov), (202) 357-9572, (202) 357-0320 Fax. [rweingar@cs.umd.edu, forsyth, 4/21/93. Dan Corkill.] Tell YT where you heard about this! It's a 1- or 2-year position, but NSF could later make it permanent if you prove to be a good bureaucrat. Note that tax benefits (e.g., support of two residences) are limited for such "temporary" jobs. Also, NSF can't guarantee that your home institution will take you back -- and it won't pay transportation for the return trip. IPAs are paid through their home institutions, typically getting better pay, benefits, and job security. You can arrange independent research with your home institution or a DC/VA/MD university (but don't expect time to do research).

UC Riverside expects to have a visiting position in AI and logic programming. Contact Teodor C. Przymusinski (teodor@ucrengr.ucr.edu), (909) 787-4643 Fax. [dbworld, 4/22/93.]

UPittsburgh Learning Research & Development Ctr. (LRDC) needs an experienced BS/MS programmer for AI, multimedia, and network technology applied to a scientific argumentation learning environment for public-school education. Unix/Mac Common LISP/CLOS/CLIM/LOOM for AI, CAI/ITS, HCI, and CSCW. Contact Daniel D. Suthers (suthers@pitt.edu), (412) 624-7036, (412) 624-9149 Fax, or Alan Lesgold (al@pitt.edu). [Dan Suthers, 4/27/93.]

UManchester has an immediate opening for a postdoc in connectionist modeling of short-term verbal memory. About 16K UK pounds. Dr. Jonathan Shapiro (jls@jls@cs.man.ac.uk), 44-(0)61 275 6236 Fax. [connectionists, 4/23/93.]

UCambridge needs a 2-year RA in automated acquisition of lexical knowledge. Also a 3-year RA in phrasal-level syntactic analysis for lexical database construction. Apply by 5/7 to Ted.Briscoe@cl.cam.ac.uk. [LINGUIST, 4/21/93.]

Utrecht University, Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS), needs three 4-year RAs in generative linguistics, phonetics, and computational linguistics. Dr. M. Everaert (everaert@let.ruu.nl), 31-30-53600 Fax. [Brigitte.Burger @let.ruu.nl, LINGUIST, 4/21/93.]

UTromsoe (Norway) needs an associate professor of medical informatics for 3-5 years. Apply by 4/27 to Svein-Ivar Lillehaug (sveini@mack.uit.no). [m.j.o, 4/19/93.]

ETH Zentrum (Zurich) has an immediate opening for a PhD student in computer vision for recognition and interpretation of land-registry maps and plans. Unix/X/C/C++. English or German required. About $36K. Dr. Gladys Monagan (gladys.monagan@inf.ethz.ch), +41 1 262 39 73 Fax. [wong@inf.ethz.ch, m.j.o, 4/23/93. David Coombs.]

IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) has a 1-year co-op opening for an EE/CS MS student in machine vision for wafer inspection. Unix/X/C. Ravi Rao (rao@watson.ibm.com), (914) 945-2141. [m.j.o, 4/23/93. David Coombs.]

NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA), AI Research Branch, has a graduate-student summer position in hypertext, information retrieval, HCI, and AI for computer-integrated documentation (CID). C/Mac/HyperCard. US or green card. Dr. Nathalie Mathe (mathe@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov), (415) 604-3515, (415) 604-3594 Fax. [m.j.o, 4/23/93.]

Hughes STX (Goddard Space Flight Center, MD) needs an experienced BS Fortran/C/OOP programmer/analyst to help integrate modules of ecological processes into a cohesive mathematical model. Jennifer Chaney (jchaney@stx.com). [m.j.o, 4/23/93.]

A small aerospace company in Mountain View needs a KBS developer for a knowledge-presentation system. Kappa PC experience a plus. Four months, with possible follow-on, $16-$20/hour. Laura Rodman, (415) 968-9457. [Nita Goyal (nita@cs.stanford.edu), m.j.o, 4/20/93.]

A Fortune-100 transportation company in the Midwest (Nebraska?) needs two experienced AI/ES/KBS contractors to help others acquire tools, design data structures, record domain knowledge, and start applications in finance, operations research, and transportation. Unix/C/C++; ProCappa experience or MS/PhD a plus. Salary to mid-$40K's. Michael Delaney, Northstar Consulting, (800) 755-3061. [Ray Fink, 4/23/93.]

Sydney University's Systems Engineering and Design Automation Laboratory (SEDAL) has a 7/93 opening for an EE research fellow in machine intelligence and connectionist architectures, microelectronics, or pattern recognition and classification. Ref. C14/12; apply by 4/29. Dr. Marwan Jabri (marwan @sedal.sedal.su.oz.au), (61-2) 660 1228 Fax. [connectionists, 4/21/93.]

A Seattle project needs an R&D programmer experienced in dBase IV, C, and CLIPS or expert systems. Must have 8MB 486 PC. $8-$10/hour, 20-40 hours over summer, free room and board available. Dave Aldrich, (206) 659-1492 Fax. [takang @max.u.washington.edu, m.j.o, 4/27/93.]

UMinnesota-Morris has a one-year opening for an MS+ CS professor. Contact Dr. M. Korth, Div. of Science and Math, Morris, MN 56267-2128, by 5/24. [Andy Lopez (andy @cda.mrs.umn.edu), m.j.o, 4/27/93.]

Decisis Corp. (Sebastopol, CA) needs two C++/OOP/MS Windows software engineers experienced with embedded expert systems. Lawrence D. DeVooght (70164.3676@compuserve.com), (707) 829-1881, (707) 829-1883 Fax. [C. Conrad Cady (conrad@well.sf.ca.us), m.j.o, 4/27/93.]

Global Dynamics (Ann Arbor, MI) needs an MS mechanical or software engineer with expertise in expert systems and Unix/C/C++/Lisp. Also an MS/PhD CAE engineer to work in geometric modeling, nonlinear structural analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Gary, (313) 971-0804 Fax. [Prasad Kamat (ppkamat@vela.acs.oakland.edu), m.j.o, 4/27/93.]

A Chicago Fortune 500 company needs an MS/PhD expert-system development engineer in mechanical or industrial engineering. OOP, GUI, CAD/CAM, and structural analysis experience a plus. (708) 887-2169, (708) 887-2245 Fax. [Sudhakar Yerramareddy (sudha@cs.uiuc.edu), m.j.o, 4/27/93.]

Statistical Sciences, Inc. (StatSci; Seattle) needs an MS computer scientist with experience in OOP, distributed computing, and user interfaces. S-PLUS research projects include interactive graphics, dynamic data analysis, wavelets for image compression and signal processing, and user-friendly statistical interfaces. May include basic research. Dr. Emmanuel Arbogast (arbogast @statsci.com), (206) 283-8691 Fax. [m.j.o, 4/27/93.]

Logos Corp. (Morristown, NJ) needs entry-level linguists to work on machine translation of German, Spanish, French or Italian. (201) 398-6102 Fax. Patty Schmidt (pattys @logos-usa.com). [LINGUIST, 4/27/93.]