From: finin@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Subject: Faculty Position in Interface Technology & Computer Graphics
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:59:39 GMT

				   
			   Faculty Position
	       Interface Technology & Computer Graphics
				   
		     Computer Science Department
	       University of Maryland Baltimore County
			  Baltimore Maryland
				   

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland
Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a tenure-track
opening at the level of Assistant Professor.  Qualifications for the
position include a PhD in Computer Science or a related field and
strong commitments to research and teaching in the area of interface
technology and computer graphics.  Senior applicants with a strong
record of research and teaching may also be considered.

THE DEPARTMENT. The UMBC CS Department consists of 16 full time
research faculty and 24 adjunct faculty.  We offer BS, MS and Ph.D.
degrees in Computer Science and currently have about 150 graduate
students and 700 undergraduate majors.  Our computational facilities
include a large network of Unix workstations (SGI, Sun, DEC, NeXT),
Vaxen, Macintoshes, PCs, transputers, a T1 Internet connection and
access to numerous supercomputers, including a Connection Machine.
The Department is moving into a new building for Computer Science and
Engineering in Fall 1992.

THE SCHOOL.  The UMBC Campus currently has about 10,000 students.  The
Visual Arts Department has just begun a new MFA degree program in
Digital Image Processing.  UMBC is joined at the graduate level with
the University of Maryland at Baltimore (UMAB) which is located a few
miles away in downtown Baltimore.  The UMAB campus includes the
state's medical school, law school, dental school and other
professional programs in addition to a number of high quality graduate
programs.  The resulting combined Graduate School has a strong
research program with over $100M per year in external research
funding.

THE LOCATION.  UMBC is located in the Baltimore-Washington corridor,
providing easy access to both metropolitan areas and to numerous
federal agencies, industrial research centers and consulting firms.
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is fifteen minutes away by car.  The Maryland
College Park Campus is 40 minutes away by car.

SPECIAL FACILITIES.  UMBC has a state of the art teaching environment
for computer graphics, with over a hundred SGI Indigo workstations for
student use. These workstations feature the complete line of Indigo
graphics, from entry level (8bit) to Elan (24bit accelerated). UMBC
also provides several SGI Crimson machines as file servers, and the
university is slated to by one or more multi-processor compute engines
in the fall of 1992.  The workstations are arranged in lab groups
which can be utilized for hands on teaching, and the new Computer
Science/Engineering building sports a modern lecture hall, outfitted
with a high resolution projection video system.

UMBC has a state of the art Imaging Center, due to be fully operational
in the fall of 1992. The center boasts two Iris Crimson workstations with
high performance VGXT graphics, supported by a miscellany of workstations
and PCs. Video I/O is provided via two video frame buffers (VideoLab and
Avinzar) driving an automated network of video devices, including SVHS, 
8mm and video disk. The Center also offers several film recorders, scanners
and print devices, and is currently purchasing a high resolution (> 300dpi)
color  printer for rendering images to paper of transparencies. 

TO APPLY. Interested applicants should apply by December 15 for full
consideration.  Submit a letter of application, resume and the names
of at least three references to: Faculty Search Committee, Computer
Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD 21228, phone:
410-455-3000, fax: 410-455-3969, email: search@cs.umbc.edu.

UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.



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