Positions available at INRIA Grenoble

If you enjoyed last year's EG Symposium on Rendering, here is a second chance to see the beautiful, sunny Grenoble from up close (and if you missed EGSR, here is a chance to catch up).

We have two positions available in the ARTIS research group, dealing with real-time, photorealistic rendering and relighting of image-based models and light fields, starting (around) September 2008.
- a PhD position (3 years of funding)
- a post-doc position (18 months of funding)

If you know of anybody who may be interested, do please tell them to contact me for futher informations. See also:
http://artis.imag.fr/Positions/

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Greetings,
Nicolas Holzschuch
Cornell University / INRIA Rhône-Alpes

Emergent Job Openings

Automated Test Engineer, Gamebryo-117

You will work in close partnership with the development teams to validate our products against their business requirements and design specifications. You will be instrumental in creating industry-leading automated testing techniques, environments and process. This is a hands-on software development position that requires strong software engineering skills, creativity, and technical proficiency.

Senior Software Engineer, Gamebryo-162

Emergent Game Technologies is seeking an experienced software engineer to help drive the direction of our innovative cross-platform graphics/game engine and toolset. This is a senior engineering position, with responsibilities spanning product planning, feature design and implementation, customer interactions, and technical leadership.

Senior Systems and Network Engineer-198

Emergent Game Technologies, Inc., a tools and infrastructure provider to the online entertainment and video game industry, is searching for a motivated, detailed-oriented, autonomous individual to serve as one of our IT Administrators.

Server Engineer-195

Emergent Game Technologies, Inc., a tools and infrastructure provider to the online entertainment and video game industry, is searching for a motivated, detailed-oriented, autonomous individual to serve as one of our IT Administrators.

Server Test Engineer-167

Emergent Game Technologies, Inc., a tools and infrastructure provider to the online entertainment and video game industry, is searching for a motivated, detailed-oriented, autonomous individual to serve as one of our IT Administrators.

Software Engineer, Partner Technologies-200

Be part of a team that develops relationships with other middleware companies and delivers capabilities needed by our customers beyond those in our standard release. Play a key technical role in evaluating, certifying, and integrating third party technologies with Emergent products. On any day, you will be evaluating other technologies for inclusion in the partner program, writing code to integrate partner's products, creating a sample or demo, or talking to a research group at a University who has promising technology we may use in the future.

Support Engineer, Gamebryo-199

Emergent is currently seeking an experienced product support engineer who is passionate about video games to support customers for its Gamebryo product. In this job, you will be responsible for providing first and second level customer support. This includes providing detailed technical information about how to use our products by reviewing customer code, answering questions, and creating sample programs.

• Support game developers who are using Emergent technologies for their games
• Become a technical expert in the use of Emergent’s Gamebryo
• Provide customer technical data to Emergent's product development teams as a strong internal advocate for our customers

We are seeking a support engineer with a minimum two years experience with game development and 3D graphics applications. This position will work directly with customers to provide solutions to challenging problems, evaluate customer needs, escalate issues as necessary, and drive issues to resolution.

Technical Writer, Server-202

Emergent Game Technologies is seeking a full time technical writer who will consult with our product managers and engineering team and independently create a full suite of end-user documentation for a flexible multi-genre online game server and tool suite. Emergent Game Technologies is creating tools and technology to accelerate development and production phases of game development for studios.

All Emergent documentation is Web-based (HTML, MadCap, RoboHelp, Flare, Adobe PDF, etc.). Creating step-by-step procedural help, conceptual overviews, quick start guides, beta guides, admin guides, installation instructions, and application programming interface (API) documentation may all be required. The ideal candidate is a technically savvy self-starter who thrives in the fast-paced, sometimes unstructured environment of a software startup, who can bring process expertise to the function while producing results with little supervision.

Why work for Emergent?

Revolutionize game development

• Emergent’s Gamebryo has been used to create over 200 hit titles, including Bethesda Softworks The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Sid Meier’s Civilization IV by Firaxis Games. Join Emergent now and help us shape the future of game development.

Connect to the games industry

• Why work for one game developer when you can work with hundreds. Incredible networking exposure will connect you to the most respected game companies, and the most respected game developers, in the business.

Join our experienced team

• At Emergent, you will be working with like-minded enthusiasts of the games industry. From game players to game developers, game industry strategists to game tool engineers, our strong, balanced team possesses a knowledge of games that goes way beyond the norm.

Advance your career

• We reward out-of-the-box thinking, as well as personal and team achievement. Responsibility and professional advancement come as fast as you can take them.

Work in great places

• Our headquarters in Calabasas, California are just 10 miles from Malibu’s beaches; and our North Carolina office is located in the famous Research Triangle at Chapel Hill. We also have offices in Austin, Texas and the UK.

Enjoy balance

• Forget game development hours. At Emergent, you will work hard AND enjoy life beyond the office, but still enjoy all that the games industry has to offer.

Experience success

• Emergent pays competitive salaries as well as target bonuses and stock options (at certain levels). Holiday pay, vacation time, health and dental, and a 401K are all part of the benefits you will enjoy.

For more information, please visit our website http://www.emergent.net

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.