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Agent Employment Opportunities

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Subject: NCSU Opening: Realtime Animation Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 18:43:44 -0500 (EST) From: mpsingh@eos.ncsu.edu To: agents@cs.umbc.edu, mpsingh@eos.ncsu.edu (Munindar Singh) ========================================================================= Faculty Position in Real-Time Animation The Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University seeks an assistant professor in the broad area of real-time animation, taken here to include believable agents, behavioral animation, interactive animation, and intelligent interfaces. The successful candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science and an extensive research record. This new position has been created to further strengthen our activities in intelligent learning technologies. Our present activities and their importance to the core mission of NCSU are recognized at the highest levels within the university. A number of faculty have an interest in learning technologies and related areas. Their work is supported by NSF, IBM, the State of North Carolina, and internal university funds. The department is in a period of rapid growth and advancement, and is positioning itself to be at the forefront of selected areas in computer science. We attract research sponsorship from a variety of sources, including NSF, ONR, AFOSR, EPA, NIH, ARPA, in addition to funding from local industry. In December, the department's Multimedia Laboratory, with which the successful candidate will be affiliated, will move to a 5,000 sq. ft. space in the new $41 million Engineering Graduate Research Center. The new faculty member will find a lively and collegial work environment. Synergistic activities within the department include research into knowledge-based learning environments, animated intelligent agents, multiagent systems, computer-human interaction, speech recognition, and computational linguistics. In addition, the College of Engineering and the School of Design have jointly started the multidisciplinary IntelliMedia Initiative to foster research on learning technologies combining artificial intelligence and multimedia design. The university is located in Raleigh, which was recently rated as the best place to live in the United States. Raleigh forms one vertex of the world-renowned Research Triangle, which boasts a high concentration of high technology companies, such as the SAS Institute, IBM, Glaxo-Wellcome, Bell Northern Research, and research institutions such as EPA and NIEHS/NIH. Interested candidates should send their curricula vitae (including citizenship and visa status) and the names of four references to: Chair, Realtime Animation Recruitment Committee Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 Prospective candidates are encouraged to access the department's homepage (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu) and to send email to realtime_animation_search@adm.csc.ncsu.edu. The university is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. [an error occurred while processing this directive]