Information for prospective faculty
The Department of Computer Science has several openings for faculty positions effective July 1, 2008. We invite applications from both junior and senior candidates to fill the following positions:
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: This search is being
conducted jointly with the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
Interested candidates can submit their applications directly to that
program at: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/aboutus/CBCB-faculty-ad.html
- Assistant Professor for Natural Language Processing: pdf
The Department of Computer Science invites applications for an Assistant Professor position to be filled as of July 1, 2008. Applications from women and minority candidates are especially welcome.Candidates with established research programs will be considered for joint appointments between the Department and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Institute for Systems Research.
Candidates should submit their application (curriculum vitae and research summary) online at: http://hiring.cs.umd.edu and have their references upload their letters to that site. At least three research letters and one teaching letter are required. We will begin the review of candidates by January 14, 2008; therefore, we encourage your early application.
Additional information about academic and research units within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland is available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.cs.umd.edu and at http://www.umiacs.umd.edu
The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
- Jack and Rita G. Minker Professorship: pdf
The Computer Science Department in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies is seeking candidates for the newly endowed Jack and Rita G. Minker Professorship in Computer Science. The Professorship will be a tenured, Full Professor position in the Department of Computer Science with a permanent, partial appointment in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. While candidates in all areas of computer science will be considered, preference will be given to candidates in Artificial Intelligence. The professorship honors the pioneering contributions of Rita Minker to the early development of computer science, and Jack Minker for his research in AI and his work in support of human rights for scientists. Applications from women and minority candidates are especially welcome.Rita G. Minker (April 28, 1927-October 11, 1988), was a mathematician and an early computer programmer who worked on several early digital computers, including the Bell Relay Machine at Bell Laboratories and the RCA BIZMAC computer, where she was RCA's second computer programmer and first woman programmer. She left the computer profession to raise her children and returned to work in 1968 in the newly formed Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She headed the Training unit in DCRT from 1968-1975, where she taught medical researchers statistical methods and programming. In 1975 she joined the Statistical Software Section, of the DCRT where she was in charge of consulting on and maintaining SPSS, a major statistical package. She died of breast cancer at the age of 61 on October 11, 1988.
Professor Emeritus Jack Minker is a leading authority in artificial intelligence (AI), deductive databases, logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning. He is also an internationally recognized leader of human rights for scientists. He started his academic career in 1967 at the University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science. He was the department's first Chair (1974-1979). Between 1980-1982, he was Chair, Advisory Committee on Computing to the National Science Foundation. He is considered a founder of deductive databases and the founder of disjunctive databases. He is author of over 150 refereed publications. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, and is now Founding Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus. Among his awards are: Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM and IEEE; the 1985 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award for work on human rights; recipient of the University of Maryland Presidential Medal in 1996; and 2005 recipient of the Allen Newell Award from the ACM/AAAI.
Candidates for the Minker Professorship should submit a vitae and reference list to: Chair, Minker Professor Search Committee, Computer Science Department, A.V. Williams Bldg., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
The University of Maryland is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer.
The review of candidates will be ongoing; therefore, we encourage your early application.
