Agent Employment Opportunities

The Teleinformatics and Operating System Research Group (TIOS) of the Computer Science Department of the University of Geneva has an opening for the position of a (project funded by the Swiss National Funds for Scientific Research)*: Post-doctoral fellow (mobile code - agents - communicating messengers) Starting December 1st, 1996 (or to be negociated) Application deadline November 15, 1996 The principal task will be to participate in the research activities on mobile code ("Mobile Software Agents", "Messengers"). This implies the direction of a research project funded by the Swiss Science Foundation, the preparation of new research projects and the supervision of PhD students. The research interests of the TIOS group cover the following areas: - mobile code; - distributed application management; - caching and security in the Web; - transactional systems. Our institute (CUI) offers a very attractive research environment, with up to date software and hardware (fiber to the workplace, Macs, PCs, workstations SUN, HP, SG, IBM and Alpha). Requirements: PhD in computer science, with a special emphasis on distributed systems and/or telematics, good knowledge of foreign languages (initially the knowledge of French is not mandatory). The applications (CV + motivation letter) should be addressed to: Prof. J. Harms Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI) Tel. +41 22 / 705 76 40 Universite de Geneve Fax +41 22 / 705 77 80 24, rue du General Dufour E-mail harms@cui.unige.ch CH - 1211 Geneve 4 cc David.Billard@cui.unige.ch *Note : the fellowship's duration is 24 months. Submissions by electronic mail are accepted. Additional information on the department and the institute are provided at http://cuiwww.unige.ch/.