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- From: finin@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
- Subject: Faculty Position in Interface Technology & Computer Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.195939.20158@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Sender: newspost@umbc3.umbc.edu (News posting account)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:59:39 GMT
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- Faculty Position
- Interface Technology & Computer Graphics
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- Computer Science Department
- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Baltimore Maryland
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- The Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland
- Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a tenure-track
- opening at the level of Assistant Professor. Qualifications for the
- position include a PhD in Computer Science or a related field and
- strong commitments to research and teaching in the area of interface
- technology and computer graphics. Senior applicants with a strong
- record of research and teaching may also be considered.
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- THE DEPARTMENT. The UMBC CS Department consists of 16 full time
- research faculty and 24 adjunct faculty. We offer BS, MS and Ph.D.
- degrees in Computer Science and currently have about 150 graduate
- students and 700 undergraduate majors. Our computational facilities
- include a large network of Unix workstations (SGI, Sun, DEC, NeXT),
- Vaxen, Macintoshes, PCs, transputers, a T1 Internet connection and
- access to numerous supercomputers, including a Connection Machine.
- The Department is moving into a new building for Computer Science and
- Engineering in Fall 1992.
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- THE SCHOOL. The UMBC Campus currently has about 10,000 students. The
- Visual Arts Department has just begun a new MFA degree program in
- Digital Image Processing. UMBC is joined at the graduate level with
- the University of Maryland at Baltimore (UMAB) which is located a few
- miles away in downtown Baltimore. The UMAB campus includes the
- state's medical school, law school, dental school and other
- professional programs in addition to a number of high quality graduate
- programs. The resulting combined Graduate School has a strong
- research program with over $100M per year in external research
- funding.
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- THE LOCATION. UMBC is located in the Baltimore-Washington corridor,
- providing easy access to both metropolitan areas and to numerous
- federal agencies, industrial research centers and consulting firms.
- Baltimore's Inner Harbor is fifteen minutes away by car. The Maryland
- College Park Campus is 40 minutes away by car.
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- SPECIAL FACILITIES. UMBC has a state of the art teaching environment
- for computer graphics, with over a hundred SGI Indigo workstations for
- student use. These workstations feature the complete line of Indigo
- graphics, from entry level (8bit) to Elan (24bit accelerated). UMBC
- also provides several SGI Crimson machines as file servers, and the
- university is slated to by one or more multi-processor compute engines
- in the fall of 1992. The workstations are arranged in lab groups
- which can be utilized for hands on teaching, and the new Computer
- Science/Engineering building sports a modern lecture hall, outfitted
- with a high resolution projection video system.
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- UMBC has a state of the art Imaging Center, due to be fully operational
- in the fall of 1992. The center boasts two Iris Crimson workstations with
- high performance VGXT graphics, supported by a miscellany of workstations
- and PCs. Video I/O is provided via two video frame buffers (VideoLab and
- Avinzar) driving an automated network of video devices, including SVHS,
- 8mm and video disk. The Center also offers several film recorders, scanners
- and print devices, and is currently purchasing a high resolution (> 300dpi)
- color printer for rendering images to paper of transparencies.
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- TO APPLY. Interested applicants should apply by December 15 for full
- consideration. Submit a letter of application, resume and the names
- of at least three references to: Faculty Search Committee, Computer
- Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD 21228, phone:
- 410-455-3000, fax: 410-455-3969, email: search@cs.umbc.edu.
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- UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.
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