[Wlug] Programming position at UMass CS

[Ritacco, Alan]

If I was a betting man, which I am not, I would guess this is a student/researcher/post doc who is using an personal address b/c of the summer.  I could be incorrect though.

Al

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From: wlug-bounces at mail.wlug.org on behalf of Eric Martin
Sent: Sun 7/29/2007 4:53 PM
To: Worcester Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Wlug] Programming position at UMass CS


Why is this coming from somebody with a .uk domain?


On 7/27/07, Hanna M. Wallach <hmw26 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: 

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	Software Engineer in Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory 
	at UMass.
	
	Work with computer science researchers and other software engineers to
	revolutionize search over research literature and patents.  See our
	preliminary web portal for computer science researchers at 
	http://rexa.info/faq, and read relevant publications at
	http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/papers.
	
	Open source tools: Linux, Java, MySQL, Apache, ... 
	
	Modern methods: Test-driven development using the Java/Spring
	framework.  Feature-rich, Ajax-based web interfaces.
	
	Intellectually stimulating: Learn about cutting edge methods in
	machine learning, information extraction, web search, data mining, 
	social network analysis.
	
	Serious hardware platforms: 100-CPU cluster, 10Tb disk, fast servers
	and desktops.
	
	Challenging work: Not cookie-cutter programming.  Integrate with
	machine learning methods; program for high parallelism; devise 
	algorithms for massive scalability.  High creativity, intelligence,
	experience, and independent drive required.
	
	Experienced colleagues: Former VP R&D 170-person startup, extensive
	professional software engineering experience on the team. 
	
	Tuition Benefits: Take UMass Amherst courses while working.
	Opportunities to publish research papers, if desired.
	
	True search: No internal candidate.
	
	Excellent follow-on prospects: Several others from the lab later got 
	job offers from Google, Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft.  (We want someone
	interested in staying multiple years, though.)
	
	Time off: Five weeks vacation and personal time, plus 13 holidays each
	year.
	
	Gorgeous location: Amherst, MA: bucolic surroundings plus active 
	culture.  Smith, Holyoke, Hampshire and Amherst Colleges all in the
	neighborhood.  Office with window.
	
	
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	Rexa: http://rexa.info <http://rexa.info/> (create free login)
	
	Rexa is a digital library covering the computer science research
	literature and the people who create it.  Rexa is a sibling to Google
	Scholar, CiteSeer and the ACM Portal.  It's chief enhancement is that 
	Rexa knows about more first-class, de-duplicated, cross-referenced
	object types: not only papers and their citation links, but also
	people, grants, topics---and in the near future universities,
	conferences, journals, research communities, and more. 
	
	Rexa currently provides:
	* Keyword search on over 7 million papers (mostly in computer science)
	* Cross-linked pages for papers, authors, topics and NSF grants
	* Browsing by citations, authors, co-authors, cited authors, citing 
	  authors; (find who cites you most by clicking "Citing authors" on
	  your home page)
	* Web-2.0-style "tagging" to bookmark papers
	* Automatically-gathered contact info and photos of author's faces 
	* Analysis of research topics, their impact, and how they relate.
	
	Coming soon:
	* Much improved coverage of recent CS papers (it's somewhat weak now)
	* Ability to make corrections to extracted data
	
	Coming later:
	* Improved ranking, extraction and co-reference accuracy
	* Much more data mining
	* Broader coverage of more research fields
	
	Rather than seeing our siblings as competitors, we believe that such 
	services are like "newspapers for the research community", and, just
	as it is tremendously important that there is not solely one national
	newspaper, we think there should be many such services.  This is 
	especially true since increasingly they will do more than simply
	supply raw information, but also provide subjective analysis, pattern
	discovery, and predictions.
	
	Rexa acts as driving application and showcase for our research in 
	machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction,
	entity resolution, trend analysis and social network analysis. We aim
	to revolutionize the progress of science by providing new tools to
	help scientists do their job more effectively.
	
	
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	Official Job Posting:
	
	The Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory within the Center
	for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of 
	Massachusetts Amherst is seeking computer professionals to support its
	expanding research.
	
	The Software Engineers will design, implement, and maintain software
	systems. Both positions require experience with programming in Java or 
	C++ and with building software systems, web-based systems experience
	is a plus. Experience preferred in Unix, Network, shell script
	programming and one or more of the following: information retrieval,
	natural language processing, text and information extraction 
	processing, and database systems.
	
	Software Engineer 1: B.S. in computer science or related field, or
	equivalent combination of education, training and experience, plus 2-4
	years experience or equivalent. M.S. preferred. Hiring Range: $39,200
	- $55,400. Respond to Search #R25014.
	
	Senior Software Engineer: M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent and
	2-4 years of related work experience. Demonstrated leadership ability 
	required; project management experience preferred. Hiring Range:
	$47,600 - $65,000. Respond to Search #R26907.
	
	To apply, send a letter with your resume and three letters of
	recommendation to: Search {# from above}, Computer Science Department, 
	University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9264. These positions
	are grant-funded; renewal beyond one year contingent upon continued
	funding. Review of applications will continue until the available
	positions are filled. 
	
	The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal
	Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are
	encouraged to apply.
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