Job Offer

[n (Norman Packard)]

                            Prediction Company
                          Financial Forecasting
                             August 12, 1992

Prediction Company is a small Santa Fe, NM based startup firm
utilizing the latest nonlinear forecasting technologies for prediction
and computerized trading of derivative financial instruments. The
senior technical founders of the firm are Doyne Farmer and Norman
Packard, who have worked for over ten years in the fields of chaos
theory and nonlinear dynamics. The technical staff includes other
senior researchers in the field. The company has the backing of a
major technically based trading firm and their partner, a major
European bank.

There is currently one opening at the company for a senior computer
scientist to provide leadership in that area for a staff of physical
scientists and mathematicians with strong programming backgrounds. The
job responsibilities include software design and implementation,
support of deployed software systems for trading, management of a UNIX
workstation network and infusion of computer science technologies into
the firm.

The successful applicant will be an experienced and talented C and C++
programmer with architectural skills, UNIX knowledge and an advanced
degree in computer science or a related discipline. Experience in a
production environment, in support of products or mission critical
in-house software systems (preferably in the financial industry) is
required. Knowledge of and experience with top down design methods,
written specifications, formal tes methods and source code control is
highly desirable, as is familiarity with data base and
wide-area-networking technologies.

Applicants should send resumes to Prediction Company, 234 Griffin Street,
Santa Fe, NM 87501 or to Laura Barela at laura%predict.com at santafe.edu.