NSF is advertising for a new Director of Computer and Computation Research, the position held by Richard A. DeMillo (with Bruce Barnes as Deputy). Salary will be in the range $87,000 to $100,500, for a career position or 2-3 year appointment. Or you can join as an IPA, retaining your current salary and benefits. (This often works out better for short-term people. Civil service pension benefits are unvested until after two years.) Contact Deborah Munn, (202) 357-7601, by 6/28/91. [CACM, 6/91.]

Integrated Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) is looking for M.S. research scientists in advanced real-time control (modeling, simulation, system identification, control design, and integration). Applications are in manufacturing automation.

Molecular Design Ltd. (San Leandro, CA) is looking for a scientific programmer and application scientists to develop and market distributed relational database software. (That's right: application scientists to "support the marketing of various products through developing and presenting demonstrations, seminars, and workshops.")

Metaphor (Mountain View, CA) is looking for "architects" for multimedia, object-oriented systems and storage, operating systems, distributed systems, applications, and knowledge-based systems.

Unisys Defense Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) needs programmer analysts for satellite-related database applications, human interface, scientific applications, and control. Many of the positions involve simulation and diagnosis.

Loral Western Development Labs (San Jose, CA) is also advertising for satellite-related C3I people.

The Dept. of Linguistics and Computer Laboratory at UCambridge are looking for two research assistants -- an experimental psycholinguist and a computational linguist -- for a 3-year project in post-lexical and prosodic phonological processing. Contact Paul Warren (pw25@phx.cam.ac.uk) or Ted Briscoe (ejb@cl.cam.ac.uk) by June 15. [NL-KR.]

UAlabama at Birmingham, Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, needs a GRA to study neural networks for EKG analysis. (The department specializes in high-performance computing, graphics and image processing, and biomedical applications.) Compensation is $7,600 and full tuition. Contact Warren Jones (jones@cis.uab.edu). [Neuron Digest.]

The newly created Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP) in Martigny, Switzerland, seeks researchers in speech recognition and image manipulation. Laboratories are being established and international network connections will soon be in place. IDIAP is the third institute of artificial intelligence supported by the Dalle Molle Foundation, the others being ISSCO (UGeneva) and IDSIA (Lugano). The new institute will maintain close contact with these centers as well as with the Polytechnical School of Lausanne and the University of Geneva. Contact Daniel Osherson (osherson @disuns2.epfl.ch), Directeur, IDIAP, Case Postale 609, CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland. [Connectionists.]