Jobs at NICTA

["Peter Eades" <peter@it.usyd.edu.au>]

NICTA is a new research organization in Australia, set up by a coalition of
Federal and State Governments and Universities.



One of the themes of NICTA is Human Machine Interaction. Within this theme,
NICTA launched a Visualization program, called HUM, in July 2003. The aim of
the program is to investigate new ways of presenting information to people.
A few sample initial projects are:

  a.. Graph visualization: making pictures of discrete relational
information such as social networks.
  b.. Physical interaction metaphors: using familiar paradigms from the
physical world to navigate large abstract data sets.
  c.. Surveillance of fast-streamed data sets: displaying huge data sets
that arrive very fast (such as telephone call data).
  d.. Ambient visualization: enhancing the periphery of the focus of
attention with useful information.
  e.. Remote collaboration: groups of engineers can collaborate over design
problems using networked visualizations.
  f.. Software visualization: making pictures of software designs, source
code, and running processes.
  g.. Financial visualization: using pictures to help stock market analysts.


The NICTA HUM program is seeking to recruit

  a.. Research students: Scholarships are available on a competitive basis.
Applicants should have either:
    a.. A strong masters degree or honours in Computer Science/Engineering,
or
    b.. A strong degree in the visual arts with extensive experience in
Information Technology
  a.. Research staff: applicants should have a PhD in a field related to
Information Visualization, Computational Geometry, Computer Graphics, and/or
Human-Computer Interaction.
There is no deadline for applications but we would like to fill a number of
positions by January 2004.



If you would like to discuss the opportunities in the NICTA HUM program,
please contact the program leader, Professor Peter Eades, at
peter.eades@nicta.com.au.

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Peter Eades
School of Information Technologies
University of Sydney



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