[PRL] Fwd: [lfcs-rc] SICSA jobs

[Riccardo Pucella]

Dear all,

James Cheney forwarded me this posting for a job at U. of Edinburgh.

  Cheers,
  R


Begin forwarded message:
>
> Thought I'd forward this in case you know anyone who might be
> interested.
>
> From: Julian Bradfield <jcb at inf.ed.ac.uk>
> Date: July 31, 2007 9:25:37 AM EDT
> To: lfcs-rc at inf.ed.ac.uk
> Subject: [lfcs-rc] SICSA jobs
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> We have just advertised the first four of what will, it is hoped,
> ultimately be ten posts funded via SICSA (a.k.a. "pooling").
>
> Three of the four are areas in which LFCS has an interest, so please
> communicate the existence of these posts to anyone or any community
> you know where good candidates may be found.
>
> The announced topics are:
>   Software Engineering
>   Modelling/Concurrency
>   Security
>   Large Scale and Robust Natural Language Processing
> and each post may be at Lecturer or Reader level, depending on the
> applications.
>
> The official ad is at
>
> http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm? 
> fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3007756
>
> They haven't been announced on our own home page, but I have sent a
> reminder about this.
>
> Note that there is a single vacancy reference, so applicants should
> make clear the post(s) they wish to apply for.
>
> If you have RAs who might be interested, you should be aware that
> internal appointments are likely to be problematic, as the funding is
> explicitly to bring new strength in key areas. I don't know how
> problematic.
>
> You will be less than surprised to know that it is hoped to have (the
> non-UK-university) appointees in post on 31 October, even if they're
> on leave of absence initially. Hence the time scale for the first
> attempt at recruitment is short. Presumably if we fail to recruit
> adequately this time, we'll re-advertise in a more leisurely fashion
> during the coming year.
>
> Julian.
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