Communications - January 2010

for academic and research excellence necessary for appointment as a tenured professor, demonstrated leadership skills, management or supervisory experience, and a strong interest in working with students and the community. Reporting to the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing, the Director is responsible for promoting excellence in interdisciplinary research and teaching, mentoring faculty, building research teams, administration of School’s budgetary and personnel operations, and collaborating with the community and industry.

With a student enrollment of over 39,000, FIU has achieved Carnegie Research University status (with high research activity) and is one of the 25 largest universities in the nation. SCIS is the 6th largest computer science program in the nation and is a major school in the College of Engineering and Computing at FIU. SCIS has 32 faculty members who support its offerings of BS (ABET accredited), MS, and PhD programs in Computer Science, BS/BA in IT, and MS in Telecommunications and Networking. The School serves approximately 1,150 undergraduates, 170 masters, and 90 doctoral students, and provides service courses to many students in various Engineering, Business, and Arts & Sciences departments. In 2008-09, the SCIS received external funding in excess of $4.2M. The School’s IT staff operates and maintains research and instructional computing infrastructure and 25 laboratories, including a 10GB network backbone, virtualization-capable data center, multimedia classrooms, and open graduate and undergraduate labs, and IT hands-

on teaching labs.

The School’s faculty is involved in research areas including databases (data mining, visualization, knowledge discovery, GIS), software systems (high performance computing and networking, large scale modeling simulation, parallel and distributed systems, and adaptive, autonomic, pervasive, and grid computing), software engineering (architecture, design, verification, testing, component technology, and verification), machine learning, telecommunications and networking, security, health informatics, Bioinformatics, algorithms and programming languages.

One of the School’s signature University/In-dustry partnership projects is the Latin American Grid (LA Grid, pronounced “lah grid,” http://www. latinamericangrid.org). Co-founded by IBM, and with 12 academic and industry partners sharing over 1,500 systems in an experimental grid, LA Grid brings together computer scientists, domain experts, and industry experts to produce the next generation of leaders of the IT industry by synergistically combining research, education and workforce development activities. It explores “society critical” areas such as disaster mitigation, healthcare, and bioinformatics.

FIU offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and an excellent work environment.

Application review continues until the position is filled. A letter of application, CV, statements of administrative, teaching, and research philosophies, and a list of three references should be submitted to:

http://www.fiujobs.org

Applications are especially encouraged from members of under-represented minorities, women and persons with disabilities. FIU is an equal opportunity/ equal access/ affirmative action employer and institution.

www.fiu.edu/index.htm

madrid institute for Advanced studies in software Development Technologies (imDeA-software)

Open call for Tenured and Tenure-track Research positions in Computer Science

The Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies ( IMDEA-Software) invites applications for tenure-track (Research Assistant Professor) and tenured ( Research Associate Professor and Research Professor) faculty positions in the following areas: language and system support for multicore platforms, security, rigorous software engineering (including rigorous approaches to validation and testing), distributed, networked and embedded systems, programming language implementation (including compilers, program transformation, garbage collection, the interplay between computer architecture and programming languages, etc.) and service-oriented architectures.

The primary mission of the recently created IMDEA Software Institute is to perform research of excellence at the highest international level in the area of software development technologies and, in particular, science and technology which will allow the cost-effective development of software products with sophisticated functionality and high quality, i.e., which are safe, reliable, and efficient.

Windows Kernel Source and Curriculum Materials for Academic Teaching and Research. The Windows® Academic Program from Microsoft® provides the materials you need to integrate Windows kernel technology into the teaching and research of operating systems.

The program includes:

• Windows Research Kernel (WRK): Sources to build and experiment with a fully-functional version of the Windows kernel for x86 and x64 platforms, as well as the original design documents for Windows NT.

• Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK): PowerPoint® slides presenting the details of the design and implementation of the Windows kernel, following the ACM/IEEE-CS OS Body of Knowledge, and including labs, exercises, quiz questions, and links to the relevant sources.

• ProjectOZ: An OS project environment based on the SPACE kernel-less OS project at UC Santa Barbara, allowing students to develop OS kernel projects in user-mode.

These materials are available at no cost, but only for non-commercial use by universities.

For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/WindowsAcademic
or e-mail compsci@microsoft.com.

Selection Process

The main selection criteria will be the candidate’s demonstrated ability and commitment to research, the match of interests with the institute’s mission, and how the candidate complements the institute’s established strengths in the general areas of programming languages, program analysis, and verification. All positions require an earned doctoral degree in Computer Science or a closely related area. Candidates for tenure-track positions will have shown exceptional promise in research and will have displayed an ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. Candidates for tenured positions must possess an outstanding research record, have recognized international stature, and demonstrated leadership abilities.

Application materials are available at the URL https://www.imdea.org/internationalcall/ Default.aspx?IdInstitute= 17 wherein candidates must fill out an application form and attach a copy of their CV, a research statement (at most 2 pages), and provide the names and email adress-es of referees. Only electronic applications are considered. For best consideration, complete applications must be received by January 15, 2010 (and applicants should arrange for the reference letters to arrive by that date), although applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled.