interactive skin cancer image analysis

University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
One Post-doctoral Research Post - Computer Vision


Applications are invited for one post-doctoral researcher to work in the School of Informatics on a Wellcome Foundation funded project entitled "Dermofit: A cognitive prosthesis to aid focal skin lesion diagnosis".

Informatics at Edinburgh is one of the top-ranked departments in Europe.

The project goal is to develop an interactive skin cancer image database indexing tool, where users compare 'live' skin lesions/spots to images selected from a database. Based on user feedback on the appropriateness of the selections, the database will searched for better matches.

The main activities of the researcher will be to investigate how to achieve high quality database selections, where the user might supply a sample image, with the spot highlighted, or where only the database alone is used and the user is looking at the lesion. The research will require
development of algorithms for lesion segmentation, colour correction, feature extraction, feature selection and database indexing. The developed tool will be executable through a web-browser so JAVA skills are a necessity. Intermediate development might be done in Matlab or other appropriate languages.

See:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/DERMOFIT/details.htm

for more details.

Applicants for the post must have completed a PhD in an appropriate area, such as computer vision or image processing and should have experiencewith the MATLAB and JAVA programming languages. As the project is about database retrieval of medical images, we will be looking for applicants having experience with image database retrieval and medical image processing.

The post is on the Edinburgh UE07 scale (28290-33780 pounds/annum) and is available from August 1, 2008 until July 31, 2011. Placement for the post is according to experience and qualifications.

Further particulars are available from the URL above.
Applications are sent to:

Irene Madison (ipab-sec #at# informatics.ed.ac.uk)
School of Informatics
Univ of Edinburgh
Room 2107E, James Clerk Maxwell Building
The King's Buildings,
Mayfield Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
United Kingdom

Please quote reference number 3009159.
Closing date for applications is May 30, 2008.

The application form can be found soon at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk,
which also allows online application.

Informal inquiries may be made to Bob Fisher: rbf #at# inf.ed.ac.uk.

Software Developer

Opening for a full time software developer in Morrisville NC.

The environment is casual. The team of 9 is excellent. The work is interesting.

You can install any flavor of Linux you like on your desktop, but if its not Debian or Ubuntu you need to be able to support it yourself while remaining productive.

We use a lot of Open Source here. We also build a lot of our own stuff. We prefer to use existing FOSS projects where we can and build what we must. We contribute back to the community where it makes sense to do so.

Requirements:

You need experience developing object oriented applications
You must be smart as hell
You need to be able to check your ego at the door
You have to be able to communicate with the rest of the team
You need to be able to get on board with our philosophy

Skills

We are not stuck on any of the specifics here, but it would be great if you were a whiz with:
Python
Django
Subversion
Trac
Eclipse
PostgreSQL
XML-RPC

or had a lot of experience with some of these:
J2EE
Tomcat
JBoss
MySQL
PHP
CSS
Action Script
Flex

We need someone with a bit of experience who can gather requirements, design a data model, write unit tests, document well, and deliver solid working products on schedule.

Will discuss compensation on an individual basis. Reply to rleathers AT americanri.com

Part-Time Research Computing Support Position

Need a part time job starting this summer?

The Research Computing division of RENCI Engagement Center at UNC-CH is seeking a part-time graduate student employee for 8 to 20 hours per week to field user's questions. Compensation is a minimum of $14 per hour. The work hours are between 8am and 5pm Monday through Friday. The minimum shift is about 4 hours. Our offices are located in the ITS Manning building which is at the entrance to the hospital near the water tower.

Since you are currently a user of resources managed by ITS Research Computing, you are likely to be able to help other users. Our ideal candidate is a UNC-CH graduate student with 2+ more years left in their program, is relatively comfortable using one or more of the Research Computing servers, and is a UNIX/Linux user.

Come be a part of the team and learn more about how to use our resources as well.

Graduate student employees have said that they learned much more about computers and how to use research related software while on the job and that these skills helped them with their own work.

Come work for Research Computing and be a representative of your department.

If you are interested or know someone who might be, please email me and attach a cv or resume in either plain text, pdf, or MS-Word format.

Best,
Dan Blanchette

Research Computing
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Dan_Blanchette@unc.edu
w: 919-843-7195

Laboratory-Graduate Research Appointments, Argonne National Laboratory

The Program

Laboratory-Graduate Research (Lab-Grad) appointments are available for qualified U.S. university graduate students who wish to carry out their thesis research at Argonne National Laboratory under co-sponsorship of an Argonne staff member and a faculty member. The university sets the academic standards and awards the degree. In practice, participation by the faculty member varies from full partnership in the research to general supervision of the student's thesis work. The Argonne staff sponsor undertakes to keep the faculty sponsor informed about the student's progress, and he/she attends the thesis defense.

Research may be conducted in the basic Physical and Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering as well as in a variety of applied research programs relating to Energy, Conservation, Environmental Impact and Technology, Nanomaterials, and Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems.

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Duration

Lab-Grad appointments are for a one-year term with annual renewals being contingent upon satisfactory performance by the appointee. Appointments usually commence when the student begins full-time thesis research at Argonne after having completed all other academic requirements. In certain cases, students may be awarded support for pre-thesis studies on campus, provided that they intend to carry out their thesis research at Argonne .

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Financial Assistance

Support of a Lab-Grad appointee consists of a stipend, tuition payment up to $5,000 per year, and certain travel expenses. In addition, the student's faculty sponsor may receive payment for limited travel expenses. In cases where the student's annual tuition cost exceeds $5,000 per year, the university is expected to provide additional financial assistance to the student as required.

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Application

An application for a Lab-Grad appointment may be submitted at any time during the year and an appointment may commence at any time. You must be eligible to work in the United States and hence be requested to provide required information upon acceptance to this program. A completed application should be submitted at least one month prior to any proposed starting date but earlier application submission is advantageous because the availability of Lab-Grad appointments is limited by funding constraints.

Argonne National Laboratory encourages applications for Laboratory-Graduate appointments from all qualified persons, especially women and members of underrepresented minority groups.

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Application Materials

To apply for the Laboratory Graduate Program, print the application packet below. Two (2) reference forms are required; please read carefully and make sure all required signatures are obtained.

- denotes item is in PDF format, requiring the use of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Graduate Student Programs Application form

An application can be obtained by downloading (see above) or writing to :

        Lisa Reed
        Laboratory-Graduate Research Appointments
        Division of Educational Programs
        Argonne National Laboratory
        9700 South Cass Avenue
        Argonne IL 60439-4845
        E-Mail: Lreed@dep.anl.gov

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Internship Possibilities

I am in charge of recruiting for the following companies: ECS Financial Services Inc., Beacon Funding Corp., and Liventus. You can visit us at www.ecsfinancial.com, www.beaconfunding.com, and www.liventus.com, respectively. We offer I.T. positions in the Chicagoland area that include:

Internships
Intern Housing (Virtual Tours)
H1-B Sponsorship Available
Competitive Pay
Full-time
Permanent Employment

Currently, all three of the companies listed above are offering internships throughout the year and would like to include your students as potential candidates. Students are becoming more and more dependent on the Internet, and links from program oriented, career services, and instructor's web sites are becoming the vehicle of choice to communicate employment opportunities. If you could please forward this message to the students that you feel may be interested in this position and/or post this information on any applicable web sites I would greatly appreciate it. I look forward to speaking with some of your students regarding these rewarding internships and potential full-time positions available at our firm.

Best Regards,

Brett Giza
Human Resources Manager

Teaching opportunities with JHU Center for Talented Youth

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES
SUMMER 2008
http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment

Who:
Johns Hopkins University-Center for Talented Youth
We are seeking enthusiastic math and computer science instructors and teaching assistants to instruct in our summer programs for gifted elementary, middle, and high school students. CTY offers intense, 3-week academic programs for highly talented students from across the country and around the world.

Where:
Residential site locations around the country: California, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Day site locations in the Baltimore-Washington, Los Angeles, and San Diego areas.

When:
Session 1: June 26-July 19
Session 2: July 19-August 9
Instructors and teaching assistants can work one or two sessions.

Why:
CTY staff work with exceptional students, make contacts and friendships with dynamic colleagues, and gain valuable teaching experience in a rigorous academic setting.Courses: We offer a wide variety of courses, including Geometry

• Problem Solving & Reasoning
• Applications & Modeling
• Cryptology
• Probability and Game Theory
• Number Theory
• Introduction to Robotics
• Fundamentals of Computer Science.

For a complete list of math courses, including course descriptions and sample syllabi, please visit: http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment/math_cs.html.

Salary:
Instructors start at $2,100 to $3,000 per 3-week session.
Teaching assistants earn $1,100 per 3-week session.
Room and board are provided at our residential sites. Lunch is provided at the day sites.

TO DOWNLOAD AN APPLICATION AND LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS AND SITES:
Please visit http://cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment, or contact us at 410-735-6185 or ctysummer@jhu.edu.

Johns Hopkins University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Seven positions available at IBM WSTI in RTP

A total of 7 positions are available immediately at the WSTI in RTP. If you are interested, send your resume to Andy Rindos (rindos@us.ibm.com). Additional contact details at the end of the post.

The WebSphere Technology Institute (WSTI)
WSTI is part of the WebSphere Chief Technology Office (CTO), which works with IBM development, IBM Research and academia on ad tech projects, having responsibility for the innovation of the entire WebSphere portfolio of products. WebSphere CTO owns what is known as the Joint Program with IBM Research (which funds and coordinates IBM Research projects on behalf of all WebSphere products). It also owns both the RTP and Toronto Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS) that coordinate all university relations for the IBM NC and Toronto/Ontario/Canadian communities respectively. It is therefore an ideal place for interested graduate students, though we are equally interested in talented undergraduate students.

The job openings:


A. Virtualization/Cloud Computing team
3 openings available

We are looking for coops/interns to join the WebSphere Technology Institute virtualization and cloud computing team. These positions provide an opportunity to work on IBM's future cloud computing solutions (representing the next-generation data center technology, delivering software and services via the web from the "cloud", with automated allocation/set-up of necessary computing/storage/networking resources at the back-end). Virtualization technologies will be a key part of such solutions. Necessary skills in one or more: PERL, PHP, JAVA

Desired skills/familiarity: VMware and XEN would be advantageous. Good Linux skills desirable. Familiarity with SOA, WebSphere, Tivoli, NC State Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) a plus.


B. DataPower team
2 openings available

The DataPower group for the WebSphere Technology Institute seeks 1 or more highly-motivated students starting immediately, with potential to extend into fall and subsequent Spring. The DataPower group is an emerging technologies team looking at advancing the role of specialized application-layer network devices, collectively called DataPower. The devices are currently focused on Service-Oriented Architecture enablement, but many of our incubator projects are seeking to identify other functional areas where appliances can succeed.

The work will involve the designing, developing, and testing incubator implementations that align with our DataPower goals. Strong Java and C/C++ programming skills are absolute requirement, as well as the ability to design software solutions that meet a broad range of functional and nonfunctional goals. The student will be asked to work a on a very broad range of technical projects. Therefore, demonstrable skill in technical scope is a hard requirement. Further, the student will be expected to work on multiple coding projects simultaneously in a highly dynamic mode. Finally, the student must have a very strong networking background, with explicit experience creating high-performance networking implementations or applications.

Experience with any of the following technological areas are a plus, but not required: Databases (ODBC and JDBC), Web 2.0 (particularly ATOM, JSON, RSS, AJAX, REST as well as the social aspects of Web 2.0), Service-Orientated Architectures (eg. Web Services, etc), Mainframes (IMS, CICS, etc), SIP and IP multimedia protocols, and JavaScript

Preference is given to post-graduate students (MS or PhD), preferably in the first couple years of graduate work, to design, develop, and test incubator implementations that align with our DataPower goals. Will also consider a highly qualified undergraduate student.


C. Web 2.0/Project Zero team
1 opening available

The goal of the student would be to develop a tool that converted Ruby on Rails (RoR) apps to Project Zero apps (see http://www.projectzero.org ). A user could run a simple tool that did the conversion, and then the Zero app could be imported into our IDE.

The goals for the student would be as follows:

1. Learn Project Zero and RoR
2. Convert simple RoR apps to Zero apps. Convert RoR REST resources into Zero REST resources without changing Ruby code - this can be done by using the Zero-JRuby integration I outlined in a developerWorks article. All configuration and static web content should also be moved accordingly
3. Convert RoR app's ActiveRecord usage to Zero's ZRM.
4. Convert Ruby code into Groovy, and Ruby templates into Groovy templates.
5. Handle any Zero-specific optimizations (things that might not be possible in RoR).
6. Integrate tool with Zero CLI
7. Work with web IDE team to make importing RoR apps -> Zero apps a one-click process.

The student's work would eventually be available on projectzero.org, which is a great thing to have on your resume.


D. Student with website development skills.
1 opening

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Andy Rindos
Head, RTP Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) and WW CAS Coordinator
email: rindos@us.ibm.com
phone: (919) 486-2016