Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa23107; 6 Dec 94 16:58:25 EST Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 16:57:22 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Predoc: Tilburg University From: walter@kub.nl (Walter Daelemans) Date: Tue Dec 06 05:46:31 EST 1994 Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands Predoctoral research associate position in cognitive psychology/computational linguistics (Ph.D position, 4 year contract) Tilburg University A predoctoral position in cognitive psychology/computational linguistics is available immediately at Tilburg University. The focus of research will be on the development of a text-to-speech conversion system with special emphasis on modelling reading ac- quisition and developmental dyslexia. The development of the model and the simulations will be conducted together with behavioral experiments. In the project, a strongly cross-linguistic approach is taken. Comparative models will be built for English, French, and Dutch. This approach furthermore includes the development of a computational measure of the complexity of these writing systems (`orthographic depth'). Candidates with training in cognitive psychology, cognitive neurop- sychology combined with computational (connectionist) modelling are preferred. Applicants should send a curriculum vitea and a brief description of fields of interest to: Professor Beatrice de Gelder Department of Psychology Tilburg University Warandelaan, 2 PO Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands email: b.degelder@kub.nl  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15598; 8 Dec 94 13:55:06 EST Date: Thu, 8 Dec 94 13:53:32 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Predoc: GRE Grad Research Assistantships in Psychometrics Subject: ETS: Graduate Assistantships Announcing the 1995-96 GRE Graduate Research Assistantships in Psychometrics Program The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Board is pleased to announce the availability of up to ten graduate research assistantships for psychometric programs for the 1995-96 academic year. Graduate research assistants will serve as on-site data coordinators for a variety of research studies related to the development of a new, modular, computerized GRE General Test and other new GRE testing initiatives, and/or other research projects of relevance to Educational Testing Service (ETS). Funding will consist of a student stipend paid to the assistant and a fixed cost-of-education allowance paid to the institution. The stipend will be $12,000 ($1,200 per month) for a period of ten months. The cost-of-education allowance to the institution will be $7,500. Assistanships are for a ten- month period (September 1, 1995 through June 30, 1996). Nominations must reach the GRE Program at ETS by February 1, 1995. Notification of awards will be made by the end of March, 1995. Nomination information and application materials can be obtained by contacting Maria Potenza, Educational Testing Service, Mail Stop 32-V, Princeton, NJ 08541, 609-951-1522, or email: mpotenza@ets.org.  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05856; 24 Jan 95 17:17:26 EST Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 17:16:47 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Summer: ETS EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE 1995 Summer Fellowship in Mathematics Automatic Scoring and Item Generation Research DESCRIPTION Up to 3 graduate students will be selected to participate in ongoing research projects under the supervision of ETS senior staff with expertise in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. These projects focus on using computational methods to (1) score student responses to open- ended mathematical problems entered on computer and (2) generate mathematical word problems and other mathematical test items in a theoretically principled way, such that their difficulty can be predicted. DURATION Monday, June 5, 1995 through Friday, July 28, 1995. STIPEND $2500 for the 8-week period with a supplemental living allowance for participants who bring their spouse or child ($350), OR spouse and child ($500). Participants and their families will be reimbursed for reasonable round-trip travel expenses from their home or university to ETS. SELECTION The main criterion for selection will be scholarship and the match of applicant interests with participating ETS staff. Affirmative action goals will also be considered in the selection process. WHO SHOULD APPLY The program is open to any individual enrolled in a doctoral program in computer science, cognitive psychology, or a related discipline. Computer science applicants should be proficient in LISP, Prolog, C++, or C and have strong mathematical skills. Experience in the development of intelligent tutoring systems is also a plus. REQUIREMENTS Completion of 40 or more graduate credits in a doctoral program emphasizing one of the areas specified above. A resume of educational and job history, honors, awards, etc. A letter of reference from an advisor or committee chair Official transcripts of undergraduate and graduate studies DEADLINE All application materials must arrive at ETS on or before February 28, 1995. DECISION Applicants will be notified by April 15, 1995. CONTACT Please direct inquiries and required materials to: Linda J. DeLauro, Mail Stop 16-T, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ 08541-0001, Telephone 609-734-1806, Internet: ldelauro@ets.org.  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06684; 24 Jan 95 18:18:44 EST Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 18:17:19 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Fellowship: Open Univ., AI & Manufacturing From: c.s.hartley@open.ac.uk (Chris) Date: Tue Jan 24 09:50:46 EST 1995 PhD Studentship: Artificial Intelligence applied to the manufacture of sheet metal and paper --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at the Open University in Wales (the OU's regional centre in Cardiff, Wales, UK). The research will involve the application of artificial intelligence techniques to the analysis of factors affecting the quality of wide steel & aluminium strip and paper. The role played by the quality of the periodic re-grinding of the process rolls in determining the quality of the final strip is of particular interest. The workis likely to involve close co-operation with the Welsh Laboratories of British Steel and Metrology Systems Wales, a company specialising in the measurement and analysis of roll profiles. Further details can be obtained from Dr Alun Armstrong (D.A.Armstrong@open.ac.uk)  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18251; 25 Jan 95 17:13:23 EST Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 17:12:15 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Fellowship: Space Grant, Oregon State Univ. From: padalam@granite.CS.ORST.EDU (unBeing) Date: Wed Jan 25 14:21:11 EST 1995 Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University Space Grant Fellowships for New Graduate Students Oregon State University The Computer Science Department at Oregon State University has the opportunity to nominate interested incoming graduate students for support under an Oregon Space Grant Fellowship. Students who are selected for these one year fellowships will receive approximately $14,000 in support plus a tuition waiver. These fellowships are part of a national program intended to increase the number of U.S. scientists and engineers available for careers in aerospace and related fields. You will be expected to participate in Computer Science research in one of the areas identified below during your first year, and you must be a U.S. citizen. Our research areas relevant to the Space Grant Program include: programming languages and systems artificial intelligence software engineering real-time systems algorithm analysis parallel computing software tools for parallel scientific programming design of user interfaces for technical programmers To apply -------- We are recruiting students interested in this opportunity. The application process for such a fellowship is quite simple: express an interest in the fellowship by sending e-mail to Bernie Feyerherm (bernie@cs.orst.edu) by February 1, mention the area(s) of interest to you, and apply to our graduate school in the usual way. In your e-mail, please let us know your GRE scores, gradepoint, and background in Computer Science. About Oregon State University's Computer Science Department ----------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Computer Science is an active, pioneering group. The faculty includes 15 Ph.D.s who are enrolled in research and graduate instruction. 3 of our faculty have been named NSF/Presidential Young Investigators by the National Science Foundation. Approximately 75 graduate students and 325 undergraduate students are enrolled. We have excellent laboratory and equipment facilities, and have been the recipient of a number of research, equipment, and software grants from our industrial friends and sponsors and from the National Science Foundation and NASA. Our section of Oregon ranks eighth in the country in computer-related industry. We have strong ties with several companies in the area, including Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sequent, and Intel. Corvallis, home of Oregon State University, is located in the Willamette Valley between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The city of 42,000 is about 85 miles south of the metropolitan area of Portland, 50 miles from the scenic Oregon coast, and 80 miles west of the beautiful Cascade Mountains. Outdoor activities such as fishing, camping, skiing, and hiking are within easy driving distance. The valley experiences wet, cool winters and warm, dry summers. For more information, contact Bernie Feyerherm (bernie@cs.orst.edu), or see our WWW page: http://www.cs.orst.edu/info/ Deadline for e-mail expressing interest in the Space Grant Fellowship: February 1, 1995.  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21888; 31 Jan 95 17:22:57 EST Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 17:05:26 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-jobs@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu, ai+lisp-jobs@cs.cmu.edu, ai+prolog-jobs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Admin: Semi-Annual Statistics This is an automatically generated summary of usage statistics for the AI-related job mailing lists. Subscribers as of January 31, 1995: Lisp-Jobs 390 AI-Jobs 247 Prolog-Jobs 114 AI-Postdoc 64 AI-Predoc 33 Note: The Lisp-Jobs mailing list was in existence for several years before the establishment of the other AI-related job mailing lists. Job Postings since July 1, 1994: Lisp-Jobs 52 AI-Jobs 142 Prolog-Jobs 8 AI-Postdoc 7 AI-Predoc 2 Misdirected (un)subscription requests caught by list server: 58 Lisp-Jobs 15 AI-Jobs 21 Prolog-Jobs 10 AI-Postdoc 4 AI-Predoc 8 Queries received by query server since July 1, 1994: 2288  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa22011; 31 Jan 95 17:28:47 EST Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 17:26:53 EST From: Mark.Kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-jobs@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu, ai+lisp-jobs@cs.cmu.edu, ai+prolog-jobs@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Admin: Semi-Annual Statistics This is an automatically generated summary of usage statistics for the AI-related job mailing lists. Subscribers as of January 31, 1995: Lisp-Jobs 390 AI-Jobs 247 Prolog-Jobs 114 AI-Postdoc 64 AI-Predoc 33 Note: The Lisp-Jobs mailing list was in existence for several years before the establishment of the other AI-related job mailing lists. Job Postings since July 1, 1994: Lisp-Jobs 52 AI-Jobs 142 Prolog-Jobs 8 AI-Postdoc 7 AI-Predoc 2 Misdirected (un)subscription requests caught by list server: 58 Lisp-Jobs 15 AI-Jobs 21 Prolog-Jobs 10 AI-Postdoc 4 AI-Predoc 8 Queries received by query server since July 1, 1994: 2288  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id ab22048; 2 Feb 95 19:38:53 EST Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa11657; 2 Feb 95 19:38:21 EST To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Predoc: HCI/Comp. Ling. (Univ. of Brighton) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 95 19:38:19 EST Message-ID: <11655.791771899@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU> From: Mark Kantrowitz From: Donia Scott Date: Thu, 2 Feb 95 18:55:14 GMT **** PLEASE DISTRIBUTE *** The Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Brighton has a 3-year studentship available for work towards a PhD in one of the following areas: - computational linguistics - computer supported collaborative design - human computer interaction - multimedia Applicants should have a first class or good upper second degree (or equivalent) in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science or linguistics, and be available to start by 31st May 1995. The studentship is funded by the EPSRC, and covers full registration fees and a contribution towards living expenses for candidates who have been ordinarily resident in the UK throughout the 3 year period preceding the date of the award. The award will only cover registration fees for EC candidates currently resident in other countries within the Community. The deadline for applications is 3rd March 1995. Interested parties should send a copy of their CV, together with the names and addresses of 2 academic referees to: Ms. Melanie Pearson, Research Administrator, ITRI, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4AT email: mel.pearson@itri.bton.ac.uk fax: +44-(0)1273-606653 tel: +44-(0)1273-642900 Further details of the ITRI are appended here: ........................................................................ Information Technology Research Institute ========================================= The Information Technology Research Institute is a research department within the University of Brighton whose aims are to further interdisciplinary research on Information Technology and its applications. The work of the Institute is funded by the University, by grants from national and european research councils and contracts with commercial organisations. The current focus of the Institute is on two key areas: language engineering and computer supported collaborative design. Work on language engineering includes theoretical and applied research on computational linguistics in the areas of discourse, information extraction, knowledge representation, lexical representation, machine translation, multilingual text generation, user modelling and the design of multimodal interfaces. Our work on computer supported collaborative design centres on investigations of the requirements for software environments to support collaboration in design, with special attention to the areas of architectural design, concurrent engineering and to the conceptual stage of the design process. The Institute also hosts visiting researchers for periods up to three years; recent visitors have come from Carnegie Mellon University and the Information Sciences Institute (USA), the universities of Musashi and Waseda (Japan), the GMD-IPSI (Germany), the University of Sofia (Bulgaria), the University of Sao Paulo and Catholic University (Brazil). The Institute is a lively department of some twenty researchers, including research fellows, research assistants, postgraduate students and technical and administrative staff. It is housed in a separate, customised building on the Mithras site of the University, near the centre of Brighton, and provides excellent research facilities. The Head of the Institute is Professor Donia Scott. Senior Researchers ================== Dr John Downie MSc (Edinburgh),DPhil (Edinburgh) Concurrent engineering, computer supported collaborative design, mechatronic design. Dr Roger Evans Cert.ASM (Cambridge), DPhil (Sussex) Artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, programming tools and environments. Mr Richard Griffiths MA (Sussex) Artificial intelligence, human-centred systems, human-computer interaction. Mr Tony Hartley MSc (Sussex) Artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, machine translation. Dr Adam Kilgarriff DPhil (Sussex) Computional lexicography Dr Cecile Paris MS (Columbia), PhD (Columbia) Artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, human computer interaction, user modeling. Dr Chengzhi Peng MSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Edinburgh) Design studies, computer-aided design, computer graphics, computer-supported cooperative work, visualisation. Dr Lyn Pemberton MA (Toronto), MSc(Sussex), PhD(Toronto) Computer-supported collaborative work, human-computer interaction. Dr Richard Power PhD (Edinburgh) Artificial intelligence, expert systems, knowledge elicitation. Professor Donia Scott MSc (Sussex), D.Phil (Sussex) Artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, human computer interaction. Dr Keith Vander Linden MS (Iowa), PhD (Colorado) Artificial intelligence, computational linguistics.  Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10444; 7 Feb 95 13:31:37 EST Date: Tue, 7 Feb 95 13:30:27 EST From: AI.Repository@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Predoc: Genetic Algorithms (Colorado State Univ.) From: whitley@cs.colostate.edu (darrell whitley) Date: Mon Feb 06 13:30:30 EST 1995 Organization: Computer Science Department, Colorado State University The AI Laboratory at Colorado State University expects to have research assistantships available in the following areas next year. 1. Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms. The goal will be to revise existing GA software for a new scheduling application in the transportation domain. The scheduler will be evaluated and compared to 2 existing schedulers. 2. Applications of Genetic Algorithms to seismic problems, development of new test problems and comparisons of GAs to other local search and heuristic search methods. 3. Combinations of genetic algorithms and neural networks. In particular, this work looks at neurocontrol applications and the use of grammar based representations to encode neural network topology and weights. Research assistants would be part of a research team of appropriately 8 Ph.D. students, with 4 or 5 students doing research related to genetic algorithms. Interested individuals should contact me at whitley@cs.colostate.edu Information on applying to the graduate program at CSU can be obtained by mailing to gradinfo@cs.colostate.edu Darrell Whitley