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POSITIONS AVAILABLE
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The Department of Computing Science and Engineering, Universite
catholique de Louvain, is opening positions in the PIRATES project
starting immediately for talented and motivated Ph.D. students, or
people with equivalent background, with interest and experience
in one or more of:
- Implementation of languages and systems for distributed programming.
- Distributed algorithms and models for fault tolerance, security, and
efficient use of scalable network technologies.
The system is based on a conservative extension of the Oz language,
an advanced concurrent object-oriented language that is state-aware
and has dataflow synchronization.
The PIRATES project runs from 1997-2000 and collaborates with
the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and
the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). PIRATES is
conceived as a feedback loop between research-oriented platform
development and advanced application development. The objectives are
to design, build, and use a platform for distributed programming that
separates the application's functionality from the aspects of
distribution, fault tolerance, security, and scalability.
More information on PIRATES can be found at:
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/distribution.html
The Department has excellent facilities, strong international
collaborations, and expertise in networks, network-related
technologies, and technology transfer. The Universite catholique
de Louvain is attractively located at Louvain-la-Neuve in central
Belgium and has good connections to the rest of Belgium.
Starting dates of the positions are flexible, but should be preferably
as soon as possible and definitely before Fall 1998. The positions will
be held open until filled adequately. Remuneration will be competitive
and according to the candidate's experience. Knowledge of French is
desirable but not essential. If you are interested, please send the
following:
- a cover letter explaining your motivation and experience,
- a curriculum vitae,
- three references,
- selected publications, if available
- systems-building experience, if available
to:
Prof. Peter Van Roy
Departement d'Ingenierie Informatique
Universite catholique de Louvain
Place Sainte-Barbe, 2
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Web: http://info.ucl.ac.be/
Phone: (+32) 10 47.83.74
Fax: (+32) 10 45.03.45