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POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING FOR MOZART
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In the wake of the first public release of the Mozart Programming
System, an advanced platform for robust distributed programming and
constraint programming, the PIRATES project at the Department of
Computing Science and Engineering, Universite catholique de Louvain,
is looking for researchers, starting immediately.  We are looking
for talented and motivated Ph.D. students or postdocs, or people
with equivalent or more advanced background, with interest or
experience in one or more of:

- Design and implementation of languages and systems for distributed
  programming.

- Distributed algorithms, models, and abstractions for fault
  tolerance, security, resource management, and scalability.

- Result-oriented research based on a relentless search for simplicity.

- Collaborative applications developed in Mozart and its successors.

The PIRATES project collaborates with the German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the University of the Saarland, and
the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) in the design and
implementation of Mozart.  PIRATES is conceived as a feedback loop
between research-oriented platform development and advanced
application development.

More information on PIRATES can be found at:

   http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/distribution.html

More information on the Mozart system can be found at:

   http://www.mozart-oz.org/

The Department has excellent facilities, strong international
connections, and expertise in networks, network-related technologies,
constraints, software engineering, and technology transfer.  The
Universite catholique de Louvain is attractively located at
Louvain-la-Neuve in central Belgium and has good connections to the
rest of Belgium.

Starting dates of the positions are flexible, but should be preferably
as soon as possible.  Remuneration is competitive and according to the
candidate's experience.  Knowledge of French is desirable but not
essential.  If you are interested, please send the following:

   - a cover letter explaining your motivation and experience,
   - a curriculum vitae,
   - three references,
   - selected publications, if available
   - system-building experience, if available 

to:

   Prof. Peter Van Roy
   Departement d'Ingenierie Informatique
   Universite catholique de Louvain
   Place Sainte-Barbe, 2
   B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
   Web: http://info.ucl.ac.be/
   Email: pvr@info.ucl.ac.be
   Phone: (+32) 10 47.83.74
   Fax:   (+32) 10 45.03.45