Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27591; 28 Jul 95 19:09:57 EDT Date: Fri, 28 Jul 95 19:08:06 EDT From: AI.Repository@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-jobs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Job: NLP, Lisp, Information, KR at MCC (Austin, TX) Cc: ai+lisp-jobs@cs.cmu.edu Sender: ai@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: mcintosh@maximillion.mcc.com (Valerie McIntosh) Subject: TX-AUSTIN-SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Organization: MCC Corporate Computing Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 17:10:00 GMT Member of Technical Staff POSITION AVAILABLE MCC is one of the nation's leading technology development and commercialization consortia. Its mission is to strengthen and sustain the competitiveness of its nearly 100 member organizations and customers that share common technical and product requirements in electronics and information technology. MCC conducts a wide range of activities intended to accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced technology in the areas of advanced electronic systems, information management, intelligent systems, and distributed systems management. The Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) is a research and development consortium serving the electronics and computer industries. Our focus is information technologies and advanced electronics. With a membership and customer base of nearly 100 corporations, public and non-profit agencies, and universities, MCC provides a forum where industry, government and academia can collaborate, leveraging investments - and expertise - in the development of high-risk, high-impact technology while reducing costly duplication of efforts. This collaborative environment provides an opportunity to cooperate on projects that are inherently multi-company or multi-industry. The specific opportunity available is described below: InfoSleuth: Networked Exploitation of Information using Semantic Agents Member of Technical Staff PROJECT SUMMARY InfoSleuth is developing and deploying new technologies for finding information in both corporate and external networks, such as those based on the emerging National Information Infrastructure (NII). The InfoSleuth research is based on MCC's acclaimed Carnot technology, developed in a collaborative project over the last 4 years. Carnot has been successfully used to integrate heterogeneous corporate information resources. The InfoSleuth Project will investigate the use of Carnot technology in a more dynamically changing environment, such as the Internet, where new information sources are constantly being added and for which there is no formal control of the registration of new information sources. In this type of environment, traditional techniques for expressing and optimizing database queries are inadequate because of the rapidly changing schema information and the fuzzy nature of the queries. InfoSleuth will build on Carnot's semantic modeling capabilities to enable "deep" descriptions of available information sources, and InfoSleuth will deploy intelligent agents to carry out distributed, coordinated, self-adapting search algorithms. More information on Carnot and InfoSleuth can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.mcc.com/projects/carnot http://www.mcc.com/projects/infosleuth THE OPPORTUNITY To participate in challenging research aimed at constructing practical solutions for finding, accessing, browsing, investigating, and updating information residing in a distributed system of structured (data bases) and unstructured (text documents) information sources. The specific problems are: integration of DBs based on semantic domain models, data mining, document retrieval and extraction of information from text. The work is conducted in the form of application partnerships with organizations funding the project. This collaboration grounds the research in real problems encountered at large companies and institutions. The position involves programming in various languages (some of them non-orthodox) and working on systems (design and implementation) consisting of many different components of two types: commercially available ones and those developed within the framework of the project. QUALIFICATIONS Excellent programming skills (on the designing and coding levels), a passion towards programming, and the tendency to view work more as a source of pleasure and happiness than as a routine duty are the most valuable qualifications expected. Specific languages include, but are not limited to: - C++ - Tcl/Tk - Lisp Require knowledge and experience in more than one of the following areas: - modeling of information and knowledge representation - databases - natural language processing - developing graphical interfaces Master's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering required. Send resume' to: MCC ATTN: Human Resources Department P.O. Box 200195 Austin, Texas 78720 E-mail: vallen@mcc.com Equal Opportunity Employer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message | Submissions ai+lisp-jobs@cs.cmu.edu was sent via | Subscribe/Unsubscribe ai+query@cs.cmu.edu the LISP-JOBS | Available mailing lists include mailing list. | AI-JOBS, LISP-JOBS, PROLOG-JOBS, AI-POSTDOC, AI-PREDOC