IDSIA JOBS: 2 POSTDOCS, 1 PHD STUDENT

[juergen@idsia.ch]

We are seeking two outstanding postdocs and one PhD student in the fields
of artificial neural networks, unsupervised learning, reinforcement
learning, and/or related areas.  The initial appointment would be for
2 years, starting 2001, with possibility of prolongation.  Please see
http://www.idsia.ch/jobs.html

IDSIA is the smallest among the world's top ten AI labs identified
by Business Week, and number 4 in the category "Computer Science
- Biologically Inspired."  Our research focuses on recurrent
and other neural networks, reinforcement learning, complexity and
generalization issues, unsupervised learning and information theory,
forecasting, artificial ants, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary
computation. IDSIA's algorithms hold the world records for several
important operations research benchmarks. We are located near the
beautiful city of Lugano in Ticino, the scenic southernmost province
of Switzerland, origin of special relativity and the WWW. Milano,
Italy's center of fashion and finance, is 1 hour away, Venice 3 hours.
Our collaborators at CSCS (the Swiss supercomputing center) are right
beneath us; we are also affiliated with the University of Lugano and
SUPSI. Switzerland boasts the highest citation impact factor, the most
Nobel prizes per capita, the highest income per capita, and some of the
best chocolate.

Applicants should submit : (i) Detailed curriculum vitae, (ii) List of
three references and their email addresses, (iii) Concise statement of
their research interests (two pages max). Please send all documents to:

Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno (Lugano), Switzerland.

Applications in plain ASCII format can also be submitted by email (only
small files please) to  juergen at idsia.ch.  Do NOT send doc or pdf or
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