Research programmer position, Beckman Institute AI Group (Univ. of IL)

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Author: William Hsu
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 00:00

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			RESEARCH PROGRAMMER POSITION 

	        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	    Beckman Institute, Artificial Intelligence Division
		       Knowledge Based Systems Group

	The Artificial Intelligence Division of the Human-Computer
Intelligent  Interaction (HCII) Group at the Beckman Institute is seeking
two (2) full-time research programmers to assist in design and
implementation of a research tool for real-time decision making under
uncertainty.  The system will be based on architectures and algorithms for
intelligent uncertain reasoning, particularly Bayesian (belief) networks. 

Key Duties

	- Implement Bayesian network inference engines and interface
	- Write specification and design documents; document code 
	- Define interfaces between inference engine and other modules
	  (user interface and database)
	- Work with other group members to develop real-time
	  decision making system

Qualifications / Requirements

	- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline 
	- Experience with programming in either of:
		* Common Lisp (or Scheme)
		* C++ (especially MS Visual C++)
	- Experience in artificial intelligence is preferred, in particular:
		* Probabilistic inference, especially using 
        	  Bayesian (belief) networks or neural networks
		* Machine learning, especially using genetic algorithms
	- Experience with databases is a plus

	This is a 12-month, full-time academic professional position at
Beckman Institute.  Salary is commensurate with experience.  Starting date
is as soon as possible.  For full consideration, applications must be
received by February 15, 1998.

	Please send your application with resume, including a letter of
interest, names of references, contact information, and a recent
transcript to:

Professor David C. Wilkins		wilkins@cs.uiuc.edu 
Director, Knowledge Based Systems Lab

and cc the e-mail to:			kbs-grads@odysseus.ai.uiuc.edu

Address:
        Knowledge Based Systems Lab
        University of Illinois, Beckman Institute
        405 North Mathews Avenue
        Urbana, IL 61801
        FAX: (217) 244-5915

        Please send only postscript or ASCII files by e-mail or fax.
        Other documents may be sent by mail.
        The KBS homepage is: http://www-kbs.ai.uiuc.edu

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