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From: Thom Whalen <thom@rick.dgbt.doc.ca>
Subject: Postdoctoral Position in the Canadian Government
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The Network Services Laboratory at the Communications Research Centre
in Ottawa expects to offer a post-doctoral position for an NSERC
Visiting Fellow in 1995/1996.

If you already have a Ph.D. or expect to get one before December 1995
in any social science, mathematics, or computer science and if you have
an interest in research on applications for computer networks, you
should submit an application for this position to the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) before 15 November
1994.

In order to apply for this position, you must obtain an application
form (Form 212, Application for a Visiting Fellowship in Canadian
Government Laboratories) from:
	The Visiting Fellowships Office,
	Natural Sciences and Engineering
	Research Council of Canada,
	Ottawa, Canada
	K1A 1H5

Our work here is very much directed at applied research.  By this, I
mean that we aim to develop useful technologies, rather than
accumulating general knowledge.

Our projects are generally centered on designing, implementing, and
evaluating new applications of computer networks.  This includes both
the design of new technologies, the design of specific services which
incoporate those technologies, and the design of human-computer
interfaces.

We have a number of different studies in progress right now.

We have developed a natural language shell for interacting with
computer systems using English, French, or any other natural human
language.  Even though we have been working on that for several years
and have progressed to the point that we have licensed it to several
private companies, there are a number of approaches that we still have
to explore.

In collaboration with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) we
have been distributing radio and television programs over the
Internet.

We are also studying the use of the Internet by the public through the
National Capital Freenet community network service.

Our laboratory is also collaborating with the University of Waterloo
and St. Mary's University on the retrieval of images from a data base
using visual features.  This has applications in retrieving "mug shots"
from police files, registered trademarks and museum paintings or
artifacts.

If you have access to Internet, you can see some of this research by
	1) accessing the URL http://debra.dbgt.doc.ca/ through
	   Mosaic or Lynx,
	2) accessing debra.dgbt.doc.ca via gopher, or
	3) telnet debra.dgbt.doc.ca 3000, as well as
	   ftp debra.dgbt.doc.ca.

In the past, the most successful visiting fellows have both developed
their own research and become involved in the ongoing research of other
members of our laboratory.  In filling positions in our laboratory, we
seek individuals with a strong basic education, an active imagination,
and a demonstrated ability to learn about new topics.  We do not
require that successful candidates have specific prior experience in
our specialized research areas.

Because this is a position in a Canadian government laboratory,
preference is given to Canadian citizens and landed immigrants
(analogous to registered aliens in the US).  If you are not a Canadian
citizen or landed immigrant, you are still invited to apply, your
application will certainly be considered and may well be successful,
though there is an extra degree of competition for the few positions
that are permitted to be filled by applicants from foreign countries.

Applicants should be aware that the NSERC application that they are
submitting is for all Canadian federal government laboratories, not
just ours.  In order to ensure that it is forwarded to our laboratory
for consideration, you should indicate that one of your preferred
locations of tenure is the Network Services and Interfaces Laboratory,
DRX, CRC, Industry Canada.


-- 
   Thomas Whalen, Ph.D.   thom@dgbt.doc.ca   (613) 990-4683       
     Communications Research Centre, Government of Canada
         3710 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Canada  K2H 8S2
