IEEE Bay Area talks this May include time-varying ARMA filters for music synthesis; advances in fuzzy logic, neural networks, and intelligent control; a communication-theory framework for document recognition; automatic modulation recognition; consulting; starting your own business; and storefronts on the Internet. Santa Clara Valley Engineering Management Society has Scott McGregor of SCO talking about virtual software companies, as SCO seeks partnerships with "best of breed" developers of any size rather than doing the development in-house. [IEEE Grid, 5/94.] (If you need a job, attend professional meetings and work the crowd for business cards. Then call each contact during the week to seek leads to others who might have leads to jobs. If that doesn't work, call back in a few weeks to see if they've thought of anyone else. I don't know if calls or email work better. Avoid sending resumes or taking much of anyone's time, and send thank-you notes to everyone.)

Links to employment resources can be found on http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/employment.html. These include Academic Position Network; Chronicle of Higher Education; Employment Opportunities (EINet Galaxy); Help Wanted USA /Online Career Center; Job Banks (UT Austin); Job Banks (Latino network); and Jobs in Federal Government. [Chris Matheus (cjm1%scintilla@gte.com), 4/8/94.]

Jay Machado listed these job services in his Bits & Bytes Online: JOBNET (computer industry), 215/668-8722; Peer II (IEEE), 202/785-0017 voice; Capsule Online (contract positions), 512/331-9901; Adnet Online (managerial and technical), AOL, Compuserve, etc.; Career Network (management), Prodigy, 800/229-6499 for info; Dial-JAN BBS (disabled workers), 800/342-5526; FJOBS BBS (government jobs), 912/757-3100; People's Electronic Exchange, 908/685-0948, 908/685-1900 voice; Executive's Network (financial services), 617/227-1155 voice; and Execunet (senior positions), 203/226-5710 voice. You can post your [entry-level] resume on Career Placement Registry, Dialog, 800/331-4955 voice; College Recruitment Database, Compuserve; 800/848-8990 voice; KiNexus (from college placement offices), online and CD ROM, 800/828-0422 voice; and Special Libraries Referral Database, 202/234-4700 voice. Commercial services may also have newsletters, forums, or counseling. [jaymachado@delphi.com, 9/20/93.]

A list of employment opportunities and free job resources is maintained on gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00 /inetdirsstacks/jobs/riley. (Or is it jobs%3ariley, as announced?) [Margaret F. Riley (mfriley@wpi.edu), gopherjewels, 4/14/94. CARR-L.] (This is the 127th guide available from UMichigan's Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides, gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/11/inetdirs.)

For UC Berkeley staff jobs, telnet to infocal.berkeley.edu. [Mark AuBuchon (aubuchon@pangea.stanford.edu), 5/3/94.]

Don't forget that you can sign up for my APJ distribution of applied jobs that don't make it into the Communique. These include CS and MIS teaching positions, research support, graphics programming, short-term contracts, etc. The [unedited] announcements take about 32KB per week. Most are culled from the thousands of software positions on misc.jobs.offered. (I distribute them for free, as an extension of the Usenet newsgroup system.)