Research Associate job

[Geoffrey Hinton]

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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

SALARY: $40,000 - $50,000 per annum
The University of Toronto is an equal opportunity employer.

THE JOB: The research associate will collaborate with graduate
students on two large neural network projects, and will be
expected to do a considerable amount of programming in C.  The
first project involves hand-printed character recognition and the
second involves using a data-glove to produce speech.  The funding
is specifically for these two projects so the job is not suitable
for someone who wishes to pursue research on other topics.  The
job will initially be for one year with the possibility of renewal
for at least one more year.  Since this is a non-permanent
research position, it can be given to a non-Canadian.  We are
looking for someone who can start work in the spring of 1991.

THE GROUP: The connectionist research group in the Department of
Computer Science is directed by Geoffrey Hinton and consists of 10
graduate students (Sue Becker, Michelle Craig, Sidney Fels, Conrad
Galland, Radford Neal, Steve Nowlan, Tony Plate, Evan Steeg, Chris
Williams and Rich Zemel), a research associate (usually), a
research programmer (Drew van Camp) and an administrator (Carol
Plathan).  The research focusses on developing new learning
procedures and new applications for neural networks.  We have our
own four-processor silicon graphics machine (about 90MIPS) plus 10
sun 3/50 workstations that are used as graphics terminals.

PREREQUISITES: Applicants must have a completed (or very nearly
completed) PhD that involved simulations of learning in artificial
neural networks.  Since there are already several strong
candidates for this job, we are not interested in applicants who
do not already have extensive practical experience of neural
networks.  Experience with character recognition, speech
production, or data-gloves would be valuable.

HOW TO APPLY: The deadline is Jan 14 1991.  Send your Curriculm
Vitae (including a summary of your thesis research), copies of your
one or two best papers, the names, phone numbers and email
addresses of two or three references, and the date you would be
available to start to:

Carol Plathan, 
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 
10 Kings College Road, 
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4
Canada

You could also send the information by email to carol at ai.toronto.edu.

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