Connectionists: Jobs in Munich: Machine Learning and Adaptive Robotics

[Juergen Schmidhuber]

We are seeking outstanding postdocs or PhD students
for the Cognitive Robotics & Machine Learning group in the new
cluster of excellence on Cognitive Technical Systems (CoTeSys)
such as autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, and automated
factories. Research topics include: Artificial curiosity for the 
artificial
hands of German Aerospace (DLR), behavior evolution for AM's 180cm
humanoid walking biped, visual attention & unsupervised learning
for adaptive robots. Possible starting date: 1 November 2006 or later.
Details: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/cotesys.html

CoTeSys combines the expertise of Munich's TU, LMU, UniBW, DLR,
MPI, in neuroscience, natural sciences, engineering, computer science,
and the humanities. It also has strong connections to industry leaders
such as BMW and Siemens. CoTeSys is one of the few proposals that
made it in an intense nation-wide competition during the past year.

CoTeSys partners TUM and LMU rank first among Germany's universities,
according to a recent FOCUS survey. 14 Nobel laureates (the most recent
one of 2005 at MPI) are associated with Munich (München). On 10/13/2006
both TUM and LMU were selected as two of the three German "Elite
Universities" by the "Excellence Initiative" funded by 1.9 billion Euros
for the next 5 years. This was prime time news on all German channels.

Germany is a good place for robot research. It is still the world's 
largest
exporter of machines and other goods, birthplace of the first robot 
cars,
and the second largest maker and user of robots, after Japan. Many 
German
teams became world champions in the RoboCup, the most visible robot
competition. Munich  is one of the world's most livable places - ranked 
2nd
among the world's cities with over a million inhabitants, after
Vienna, according to recent surveys.

How to apply: http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/cotesys.html
CoTeSys Portal: http://www.cotesys.org/

Juergen Schmidhuber
TU Munich & IDSIA
Machine Learning & Cognitive Robotics:
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/cogbotlab.html
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/learningrobots.html
http://atknoll1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:8080/tum6/people/schmidhuber
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen