Technologies and Verizon. Columbia University is one of the leading research universities in the United States, and New York City is one of the cultural, financial, and communications capitals of the world. Columbia’s tree-lined campus is located in Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side.

Applicants should submit a CV, summaries of research and teaching interests, and the names and email addresses of at least three references to: academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central? quickFind=51000.

The search will remain open until filled, but will close no sooner than Feb 28, 2009.

Duke university

Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science at Duke University invites applications and nominations for faculty positions at all levels, to begin August 2009. We are interested in strong candidates in all active research areas of computer science, both core and interdisciplinary areas, including algorithms, artificial intelligence, computational biology, computational economics, computer architecture, computer vision, database systems, distributed systems, machine learning, networking, and security.

The department is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty, and we strongly encourage applications from women and minority candidates.

A successful candidate must have a solid disciplinary foundation and demonstrate promise of outstanding scholarship in every respect, including research and teaching. Please refer to www.cs.duke. edu for information about the department.

Applications should be submitted online at www.cs.duke.edu/facsearch. A Ph.D. in computer science or related area is required. To guarantee full consideration, applications and letters of reference should be received by January 4, 2009.

Durham, Chapel Hill, and the Research Triangle of North Carolina are vibrant, diverse, and thriving communities, frequently ranked among the best places in the country to live and work. Duke and the many other universities in the area offer a wealth of education and employment opportunities for spouses and families.

Duke university Faculty Position Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Pratt School of Engineering invites applications for a tenure track or tenured faculty position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The department is primarily seeking candidates in Computer Engineering and/ or Communications who have demonstrated a strong commitment to excellence in both scholarly research and innovative teaching. Successful candidates must demonstrate an ability to develop a world-class research program, be capable of obtaining competitive external research funding, and actively participate in and be committed to outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Applicants should submit a cover letter ( including email, address, and phone number) and research and teaching statements describing

saarland university is
seeking to establish several

Junior Research Groups (W1/W2)

within the recently established Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” which was established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative.

The term “multimodal” describes the different types of digital information such as text, speech, images, video, graphics, and high-dimensional data, and the way it is perceived and communicated, particularly through vision, hearing, and human expression. The challenge is now to organize, understand, and search this multimodal information in a robust, efficient and intelligent way, and to create dependable systems that allow natural and intuitive multimodal interaction. We are looking for highly motivated young researchers with a background in the research areas of the cluster, including algorithmic foundations, secure and autonomous networked systems, open science web, information processing in the life sciences, visual computing, large-scale virtual environments, synthetic virtual characters, text and speech processing and multimodal dialog systems. Additional information on the Cluster of Excellence is available on http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de. Group leaders will receive junior faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Positions are limited to five years.

Applicants for W1 positions (phase I of the program) must have completed an outstanding PhD. Upon successful evaluation after two years, W1 group leaders are eligible for promotion to W2. Direct applicants for W2 positions (phase II of the program) must have completed a postdoc stay and must have demonstrated outstanding research potential and the ability to successfully lead their own research group. Junior research groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research personnel and other costs.

Saarland University has leading departments in computer science and computational linguistics, with more than 200 PhD students working on topics related to the cluster (see http://www.informatik-saarland.de for additional information). The German Excellence Initiative recently awarded multi-million grants to the Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction” as well as to the “Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science”. An important factor to this success were the close ties to the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems which are co-located on the same campus.

Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae, photograph, list of publications, short research plan, copies of degree certificates, copies of the five most important publications, list of five references) to the coordinator of the cluster, Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel, MPI for Computer Science, Campus E1 4, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany. Please, also send your application as a single PDF file to [e-mail].

The review of applications will begin on January 15, 2009, and applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications by that date; however, applications will continue to be accepted until January 31, 2009. Final decisions will be made following a candidate symposium that will be held during March 9 – 13, 2009.

Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. For candidates with equal qualification, preference will be given to people with physical disabilities.