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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRITISH HCI GROUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ All news to:[log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Newsarchives: ~~ ~~ http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/bcs-hci/ ~~ ~~ archive.html ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Department of Information Systems invites applications for four tenure-track faculty positions and a non-tenured lecturer. Two of the faculty positions may be at a senior level. One of these senior appointees will be expected to take a lead role in distance education throughout the university and may be a joint appointment with another department. The department is a technically-oriented, and multi-disciplinary information systems department, which places a strong emphasis on the application of information systems. An earned Ph.D. is required for the faculty positions, but since the department's faculty and programs take a broad view of information systems, the discipline area is less important than applicant's research and teaching interests. We are seeking people who have an application-oriented and applied approach to both research and teaching. Ideally we would like applicants research to be in one of the following application domains: health informatics, general systems design, information resource management and government information policy. Within these application domains, applicants should be able to teach at least one of the following: health informatics, management or IT policy, networking, databases, telecom, or security. Expertise in web-based and object-oriented technologies is particularly welcomed. The research interests of current Faculty fall within the application domains mentioned above and also include: human-computer interaction, decision technology systems, databases, electronic commerce, knowledge management, public policy, simulation, software engineering, systems analysis and design. The department offers a wide variety of courses at all levels and is one of the largest Information Systems Department in the USA and the only IS Ph.D. program in Maryland. The undergraduate program has expanded over the last few years to over 900 students. There is a highly successful Masters program with approximately one hundred and fifty students and a rapidly growing Ph.D. program of around thirty students. We have a strong commitment to research and successful candidates should expect to initiate their own research program. The department has excellent technical support, research and teaching facilities which include: Sun and SGI workstations, high end PCs and Macs networked via an Ethernet network. In addition, the department accesses the university's SGI and VAX clusters of UNIX and VMS servers, the university's Imaging Research Center and the Supercomputer Consortium. New faculty receive generous start-up grants, support to attend conferences, and summer support is available for new assistant professors. Applicants for senior faculty positions should have a successful record of externally funded research, excellent publication record, and a commitment to promoting research within the Department. The close proximity of the campus to Baltimore, with its strong concentration of medical providers and a new technology park, provides excellent opportunities for funded research. Strong experience in distance education is essential for one of the senior positions. Applicants for the lecturer position should provide evidence of high quality teaching and teaching-related administration in one or more areas of need identified above. Research expertise is not a requirement for this position. Applicants should send a letter of application, recommendation letters from at least three professional references and a curriculum vita to: Dr. Jennifer Preece, Chair, Department of Information Systems, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250-5398. For inquiries, please call Barbara Morris at (410) 455-3795 or email: [log in to unmask] Applicants are also invited to visit the department's home page at: http://www.umbc.edu/ifsm. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 1998 and continue until all the positions are filled. UMBC is an AA/EOE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ~~ ~~ not the News Service ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To receive HCI news, send the message: ~~ ~~ "JOIN BCS-HCI your_firstname your_lastname" ~~ ~~ to [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To join the British HCI Group, contact ~~ ~~ [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%