We are now advertising and interviewing for Research Fellowships within the School of Computing, Information Science and Mathematics at South Bank University, London. See the advertisement below. This includes the possibility of working within the Centre for Applied Formal Methods in area such as: * Application-Specific High-Performance Processors * Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) * Concurrent Systems * Functional Programming * Hardware Compilation * Hardware/Software Co-design * High-Integrity Systems * Industrial-Strength Formal Methods * Logic Programming * Parallelism * Provably Correct Systems * Rapid Prototyping * Real-Time Systems * Safety-Critical Systems * Z Notation For further information on the Centre, see: http://www.cafm.sbu.ac.uk/ If interested, please apply formally to the address below ASAP. I suggest you email your CV and names of your three referees to Prof Robin Whitty as well for safety in case of slow post. Please mention the Centre for Applied Formal Methods and if you are interested in working with particular member(s) of staff in your application. Best wishes for 2001. -- Jonathan Bowen, Professor of Computing SCISM, South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7815 7462/7420 Fax: +44 (0)20 7815 7499 Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~bowenjp/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, a dynamic and expanding school within the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Technology, intends to appoint a number of 3-year Research Fellowships. Areas of interest include, biomedical informatics, computer graphics, e-commerce, evolutionary computing, formal methods, hardware design methods, HCI, knowledge-based systems, mobile multimedia applications, process modelling, robotics, social and human aspects of IT, software engineering, web databases. Within these fields some illustrative projects are: E-commerce Investigating the effect of mobile computing technology on E-commerce topologies, and architectural infrastructures, within the domain of mobile commerce ('m-commerce'). Evolutionary Computing Short description needed here. Formal Methods on the Web Investigating the integration of formal methods (especially the Z notation and associated tools) on the World Wide Web using XML (Extended Markup Language) Requirements Engineering Process Modelling. Short description needed here. Visualisation and graphics Short description needed here. For a full list of research centres and their current activities see www.sbu.ac.uk/scism/. Applicants holding a doctorate in computing or IT or in a related discipline, or who have an equivalent level of research experience and publications are invited to submit their CV, including the names of three referees, together with a short statement describing their research interests to the Department of Human Resources, South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA. Applicants are welcome to discuss these appointments with Prof. Robin Whitty, Director of Research in the School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics on 0207 815 7423 or [log in to unmask] Salary will be upon the Research Fellow (£17000-£25000) or Senior Research Fellow (£23000-£31000) scale depending on experience. Closing date for applications is 12 January 2001. -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Robin Whitty School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Room N110, Faraday Wing South Bank University London SE1 0AA, UK ------------------ Tel: 0171 815 7423 Fax: 0171 815 7550 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~whittyr