Connectionists: Rutgers seeks Cognitive Science Director

[Michael Littman]

Connectionists and machine-learning researchers with a cognitive bent  
may find the following opening of interest.

The Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) at the New Brunswick  
Campus of Rutgers University is searching for a new director.  The  
ideal candidate is an outstanding scholar with proven administrative  
abilities and a vision for the future of cognitive science at  
Rutgers.  A primary goal of the Center is to understand aspects of  
intelligent performance such as perception, language processing,  
decision making, problem solving, reasoning, learning and knowledge  
formation.  RuCCS has 22 jointly appointed faculty members and 30  
associates who play an active role in the intellectual life of the  
Center.  The Center promotes the integration of techniques and  
knowledge drawn from a wide variety of fields, primarily psychology,  
computer science, linguistics and philosophy.  The Center offers a  
Certificate for graduate students and a minor and major for  
undergraduates.

Candidates should be at the Full Professor level.  Salary is  
negotiable. Consideration of applications will begin on March 29, 2010.

Please see the posting at http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ruccs/jobs.php for  
details on the position as well as contact information.

Rutgers is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.