Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: Paul Watson Subject: Research Positions In Parallel Databases Organization: University of Newcastle Date: 16 Feb 1998 18:16:28 GMT Message-ID: <6c9vps$ov4$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> University of Manchester University of Newcastle Department of Computer Science Department of Computing Science 2 Research Associates Applications are invited for two positions as research associates on an EPSRC funded project on parallel databases. The project aims to develop a parallel implementation of an object-oriented database server using low-cost parallel hardware. The positions are tenable for 36 months from appointment, which is likely to be on or before 1st August 1998 at a salary of up to UKP18,494, depending on experience and qualifications. One appointee will be based at Newcastle, and will concentrate on developing a parallel object server. The other appointee will be based at Manchester and will concentrate on parallel query processing. Applicants should have at least a good honours degree in computer science or a related discipline, and preferably research or industrial experience in software development projects. More details are available at http://dcs.www.ncl.ac.uk/jobs/. For further particulars and an application form for the post at Manchester, please contact the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL (tel: (+44) 161 275 2028, fax: (+44) 161 275 5306). Informal enquiries should be made to Dr Norman Paton (tel: (+44) 161 275 6910, email: norm@cs.man.ac.uk). For further particulars and informal enquiries regarding the post at Newcastle, please contact Dr Paul Watson, Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU (tel: (+44) 191 222 7653, email: Paul.Watson@newcastle.ac.uk). The closing date is 27th February, 1998. -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel