neural net position available

[Dave.Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU]

I'm posting this position announcement as a favor to the Navy.  I have
no additional information to what appears below, so contact Dr. Lorey,
not me, if you have questions.

And please:  let's have no more limericks or limerick discussions.
Everybody get back to work.

-- Dave

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         Subj:  POSITION DESCRIPTION

         1.  The Naval Surface Warfare Center is seeking to expand its
         operations in basic research in Artificial Neural Nets to
         compliment the ongoing applied work.  A new thrust in basic
         research is seeking to augment the existing staff with one or two
         new hires.  Preference will be given candidates who will soon
         complete their PhD work but Masters candidates will be considered.
         We are also interested in filling at least one summer faculty
         position.  Neural Network experience is a must for all positions.
         The full-time and summer positions will join the current staff of
         five--two with PhDs, two with Masters.

         2.  The ongoing research areas include:  multi-sensor fusion,
         image/data compression, image processing, optimization,
         development of new learning rules for existing architectures and
         development of schemes to embed networks in multi-chip simulation
         systems.

         3.  Equipment on hand:
              4 Sun Workstations
              1 Alliant FX40 Minisuper Computer with 2 Compote engines
              1 Silicon Graphics 4D/220GTXB Graphics Workstation

         4.  Planned positions(s) will encompass work in the following
         areas:
              -route planning for autonomous vehicles,
              -improvement of existing (Hopfield, Boltzmann machines) and
              -development of new network architectures for optimization,
              -development/implementation of networks for low-level vision
               processing, and
              -evaluation/integration of neural network processing chips

         5.  Planned procurements:
              2 Silicon Graphics 4D/35TG
              1 Terrain board
              1 Silicon Graphics 4D1340VGXB
              1 VME Sun Expansion box
              1 VME SG Expansion box
              1 Breadboard table
              Video capability

         5.  Technical questions regarding ongoing work at the Center may
         be addressed to Dr. George Rogers or Mr. Jeffrey Solka at 703-663-
         7650.

         6.  Interested candidates should submit their resume to
         Dr. Richard Lorey (703-663-8159) at MILNET address:

                        rlorey@ relay.nswc.navy.mil

         or via mail to:
                        Commander
                        Naval Surface Warfare Center
                        Code K12 (Dr. Richard Lorey)
                        Dahlgren, VA  22448-5000

         7.  ELIGIBILITY FOR SECRET LEVEL CLEARANCES MANDATORY - RESUME
         SHOULD INDICATE U.S. CITIZENSHIP STATUS.


                                            /s/
                                       Dr. Richard Lorey