2 Research Associate Positions in the Field of "Social Computing" at Know-Center @ TUG, Austria

2 Research Associate Positions (Pre or Post-Doc Level) in the Field Of Social Computing at Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge Technologies @ TUG, Austria (http://know-center.tugraz.at/)

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Duties:

Know-Center seeks two motivated and outstanding research associates in the area of "social computing" to develop and evaluate new recommender concepts or adaptive and personalization methods based on Social Semantic Web technologies.

Qualifications:

* Completed University Diploma/Master's Degree or PhD in computer science, software development and economy, telematics or technical mathematics (mandatory)

* Prior knowledge in the areas of Social Semantic Web, recommender systems, social network analysis, machine learning, information retrieval (highly desirable).

* Programming experience with XHTML, mySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Java (mandatory)

* Experience with HTML5, MATLAB, Python, R, PHP (highly desirable)

* Team work and self-reliance (mandatory)

* Fluent English (mandatory)

Interest in:

Social Semantic Systems, Data Mining, User Profiling, Adaptation, Personalization, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning and HCI

Working Environment:

Know-Center is an Austrian competence center for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. At our location in Graz, we have over 50 highly-qualified employees who perform research and development work under the motto "from data to intelligence." As a part of the network of more than 100 research facilities around the world, Know-Center has numerous publications in the leading professional media. Know-Center aims at increasing the proportion of women employees and urges qualified women to apply. Among candidates with the same qualifications, women will be given a priority.

We offer:

* Young, creative team.

* Innovative tasks: we perform research and development at the interface between science and industry.

* Pleasant working atmosphere.

* Opportunities for professional and personal growth. Both technical and scientific career paths are possible.

* Compensation of 2,065 Euros and up, depending on your qualifications and experience (e.g., the type of university degree and length of work experience).

How to Apply:

We are looking forward to your application. Please email it to us together with relevant attachments at jobs@know-center.at

Questions:

If you have questions, please contact Dr. Christoph Trattner, Head of the Social Computing Research Group and Deputy Division Manager of the Knowledge Service Area @ Know-Center, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 13/6, 8010 Graz, Austria, E-mail: ctrattner@know-center.at, Tel: +43 316 873 30840, Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info

See also: 

* http://know-center.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SC_Stellenausschreibung_Wiss_en.pdf (english)

* http://know-center.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SC_Stellenausschreibung_Wiss_de.pdf (german)

POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND

POSTDOCTORAL AND RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND

Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities in Finland within computer science and information technology, are looking for several researchers in these areas. Postdocs are sought for fixed-term periods of at most three years and research fellows at most five years. The deadline for the call is 6 April 2014. Further details regarding the positions and the application procedure are available at https://www.hiit.fi/node/2644.

In particular please notice:

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HIIT-Wide Focus Area “Information Exploration”

The HIIT-wide focus area is a big multidisciplinary project spanning several research groups of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT at Aalto University and University of Helsinki. Several postdoc positions are now offered in the project. The postdocs will collaborate with several PI's.

Information Exploration, a central aspect of Knowledge and scientific work, can be profoundly improved through computational and information retrieval methods. Novel intelligent systems will be able to better utilize the massive explosion in raw data, documents, distributed information and links between these. Information Exploration as a focus of research develops information technology methods and pilot applications for making the data-driven fields such as modern biology, business intelligence, and others revolutionizing the way we search and access and share information. In particular improving the general problem solving method of science, in collaboration with the other fields, is the best way for our research community to contribute to solving the grand challenges of the humanity. http://www.hiit.fi/augmentedresearch

Example profiles and positions:

        • Analysing ubiquitous sensor data
        • Interactive Visualization
        • Psychophysiology for Implicit Interaction and Brain Computer Interfaces
        • Intelligent user interfaces, Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems
        • Machine Learning and Data Analysis for Context based information retrieval
        • Probabilistic modelling and data analysis for bioinformatics

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Open position for Senior / Postdoc Developer for Future Intelligent Information Retrieval, Professor Giulio Jacucci, Department of Computer Science & HIIT, University of Helsinki.

Unique position to lead the development of a future generation system for Intelligent Information Retrieval. The position has both development of a system for real wide deployment as also cutting edge research environment with academic impact. As senior / postdoc developer the candidate will be responsible of leading the development of a new generation intelligent information retrieval system that is utilising latest techniques in distributed computing, machine learning, adaptive computing, visualisation and user modelling.

Beside academic research activities the practical work includes: Programming backend, organising modular development, issuing guidelines for development.

Needed competencies and experiences: wide experience in programming in large real deployment projects, Strong skills in selected programming languages, experience of appropriate frameworks (MVC frameworks, such as Spring), Hands on experience in Web development, Experience in working with DBs - MongoDB, Postgres, etc. Duration: 5 years, salary 3 200–4 000 according to qualifications.

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Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT open call for postdocs and research fellows. Contact persons: Ella Bingham, research coordinator of HIIT and Samuel Kaski, director of HIIT.

HIIT offers postdoc and research fellow positions for outstanding candidates, to be affiliated with any of its research groups. Requirement for these open positions is substantial prior experience outside the particular group. http://www.hiit.fi/groups

PhD Scholarship :: New Media + Information Systems (Vienna, AT)

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in New Media and Information Systems

Researcher and Lecturer Position in Vienna, Austria

MODUL University Vienna is an international university located on top of
Kahlenberg with a panoramic view over the City of Vienna. The Department of
New Media Technology is seeking an outstanding candidate to teach
undergraduate courses in Information and Communication Technology and/or
Interactive Marketing.

You will be enrolled in MU's PhD in Business and Socioeconomic Sciences and
participate in award-winning international research. Become part of a young
and interdisciplinary team focusing on Web Intelligence, Communication
Success Metrics, Knowledge Extraction, Text Mining and Information
Visualization. Additional information on our current research projects is
available at www.decarbonet.eu, www.pheme.eu and www.ucomp.eu.

The PDF Version of the Full Announcement at www.modul.ac.at/jobs contains
additional details on the advertised position. Please send your complete
application including cover letter, curriculum vitae, a motivation letter,
two recommendation letters, academic transcripts, and a statement of your
research and teaching interests to Ms Marika Finne at
marika.finne@modul.ac.at (in English; preferably as a single PDF file not
exceeding 8 MB).

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Prof. DDr. Arno Scharl
MODUL University Vienna
Department of New Media Technology
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria
web | www.modul.ac.at/nmt
email | scharl@modul.ac.at
twitter | @weblyzard

Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web Technologies at CNR-STLAB

TITLE: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web Technologies at CNR-STLAB

Important notice: send by March 30th to stlab-recruitment@cnr.it your CV, a motivational statement, and the contact of at least one referee (or a recommendation letter).
The official procedure for being admitted to the selection is described on the official application post (see below) and the deadline is April 9th.

Topic: Theories and methods for knowledge extraction and representation at a web scale and their application to cultural heritage and eGovernment.
Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship
Employer: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of CNR
Salary: EUR 19.367,00 (nineteen-thousand-three-hundred-sixtyseven/00) net of expenses in charge of CNR.
Starting from: April 2014
Duration: 12 months
Location: Rome, Italy
Official application deadline: 27 February, 2014
Link to the official application post: http://bit.ly/1grbiBH
Contact person (administrative issues): stefania.capotosti@istc.cnr.it
Scientific responsible: Dr. Valentina Presutti

Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship

There will be a public selection procedure, based on qualifications and an interview, for the assignment of n. 1 (one) - Graduate Fellowship in order to conduct research related to the Scientific Area Information Sciences AND Computer Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, in the scope of the projects: eGovernment, Digital Libraries and Hermes, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Valentina Presutti.

To the selection may apply individuals who, whatever their nationality or age, are in possession of the following requirements at the date of expiry of the deadline for submission of applications:

a) Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Literature and Philosophy in accordance with the legislation in force before DM 509/99 or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics or Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM 509/99 or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering Linguistics or Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM 270/04, with professional resume suitable for the conduct of research according to the specifications given in the following points (the candidate is in charge, penalty of exclusion, of demonstrating equiparation of graduation diplomas);
b) All qualifications obtained abroad (bachelor's degree, doctorate, and any other qualification) shall be previously recognized in Italy in accordance with current legislation (information on the website of the Ministry of University and Scientific Research: www.miur.it). The equivalence of those diplomas obtained abroad who have not already been recognized in Italy with the expected formal procedure above, will be evaluated, with the only purpose of the present selection, by the Examining Committee constituted according to art. 6, paragraph 1 of the Regulations;
c) Documented experience of research, development and application of semantic technologies. In particular, it is required expertise in at least one of the following areas: ontology design and open data, knowledge representation, and natural language processing;
d) Excellent knowledge of OWL, RDF, and SPARQL;
e) Knowledge of mobile application development platforms;
f) Knowledge and documented experience of Java development; preference will be given to candidates that know also other programming languages;
g) English proficiency.

THE ENGLISH CALL ON THE WEB-SITE DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL VALUE IN ITSELF, AND THUS DOES NOT SUPERSEDE THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE CALL ANNOUNCEMENT (BANDO).

The 5-Step Editing Process for a Perfect Resume

You know that you should edit your resume before you send it off in the world, making sure it’s error-free.

But to make sure that resume is in the best possible shape? You should really take the editing process a few steps further.

Here’s the thing: Editing is more than just giving something a once-over to eliminate egregious typos and grammar mistakes. It’s really about looking at something with a critical eye, then making changes to ensure it’s the best it can possibly be.

And that’s what you want for your resume, right? From someone who edits all day, every day for a living, here’s a five-step editing plan that will take your resume from good to full-blown awesome (and—of course—eliminate the typos, too).

Step 1: Consider the Big Picture

When I look at an article for the first time, I have to resist the urge to fix typos or make style changes (and believe me, as an editor, it’s hard). But it’s important—the first thing I need to determine is whether the piece is working as a whole. Is this right for our publication? Is the message of the article the one we want to send? Are there any major gaps or sections that are superfluous?

On that first read of your resume, try to do the same thing. Ignore typos or formatting issues, and think about the overall message your resume is sending:

• Does this sell you as the perfect candidate for the types of roles you’re seeking?
• Are there any gaps between the experience on the page and the experience required for the job?
• If so, are there ways in which you could bridge those gaps?
• What makes your experience stand out among other, similar candidates?
• Does the top third of your resume serve as a hook to get the hiring manager to read more?
• Is there anything on your resume that doesn’t need to be there?

Pro Tip: Look at the LinkedIn profiles of people at your level in your field, and see how they tell their stories. Which ones are most compelling or stand out the most? See what you can learn from them and how you can apply those lessons to your own resume.

For other steps and complete post see here 

Software Engineer (Cloud)

Software Engineer (Cloud)

Company:
IBM

Location:
Jackson
TN
US

Category:
Information Technology

Degrees Required:
Not Specified

Employment Type:
Full-Time

Manages Others:
No

Requirements:
 

Requirements:

IBM SoftLayer is looking to add multiple full-time software engineers to their cloud computing team located in Austin, Texas.  Relocation assistance is available.

IBM has recently made a large investment in buying SoftLayer and we are looking for software engineers who can integrate and expand on SoftLayer's platform as it is integrated into IBM. Individuals with experience in software, web services or app development along with a strong background in PHP, Java, object oriented development and agile programming are needed to work on this large and dynamic platform with diverse capabilities (The majority of development will be done in PHP). This is a great opportunity for information technology specialists who are looking to make a direct impact on the continued success of IBM while enabling significant growth in our cloud computing platform.

The IBM SoftLayer Cloud Infrastructure team develops the products and services that will define the future of cloud in the hosting industry.  IBM SoftLayer builds the most innovative systems in our industry using the latest technology to deliver creative solutions that our customers depend on to succeed. As a software engineer you will work on projects that push the limits of what is available to customers.  For IBM SoftLayer, automation is the key to success.  You will be challenged to find creative and efficient ways to deploy products and services to our customers.

If you are a developer who seeks responsibility, thrives when empowered, and wants to be a part of an agile team atmosphere; then look no further! You will be joining some of the most talented, creative, and dedicated developers.  We strive to make this a place where you want to be, a place where you are proud to work, and where you are motivated to excel.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop innovative, company and industry impacting products and services
• Design, develop and implement object oriented applications from prototype through implementation
• Integrate open source and commercial enterprise applications into a publicly exposed API and web-based portal
• Create highly scalable and performant SOAP/REST/XML/JSON web services.
• Take ownership and manage projects that vary in size and scope depending on requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or related majors
• Expert knowledge of 1 or more OOP language such as PHP5+, C++, or Java (The majority of development will be done in PHP).
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as Python
• Strong knowledge of SOA / web services Ð SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, XML, JSON
• Strong understanding of object oriented design principles and patterns
• Experience in large systems software design and development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using PHP 5+ (As mentioned above, the majority will be done in PHP).
• Experience using Cloud Computing technologies especially OpenStack
• Experience using Virtualization platforms (VMWare, XenServer or Hyper-V)
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux

Job-Type: Full-Time

Location: Austin, TX

Benefits

Our employees love working at IBM because they have an opportunity to be an innovator, they work with the best and brightest, and they can build the career they want all while working for a company they can be proud of! IBM offers competitive benefits, as well as an industry-leading practice of performance-based bonuses for all employees. Few places offer as many opportunities as IBM to gain knowledge in your field of expertise, work in a stimulating environment, and be rewarded for outstanding performance! For applying see here

Microsoft's Cloud Based GPS Effort is Looking for Developers

Building on efforts dating from at least 2011, in late February Microsoft announced it was expanding efforts to create an alternative to satellite only GPS. 

This one will be much closer to earth - it will be cloud based, and Microsoft is looking for developers to help bring it to an app near you.  More below:

Microsoft Tries to Re-invent GPS With Cloudy Offloads

(The Register, February 24, 2014)

Microsoft Cloud-Offloaded GPS Experimental Kit Website

For original post see here