-----Original Message----- From: Phil Agre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: November 22, 2000 9:02 PM To: Red Rock Eater News Service Subject: [RRE]job ads [Here are some more job ads, mostly academic but not all, relating to RRE topics. These are the last job ads I'll be sending out this year.] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message was forwarded through the Red Rock Eater News Service (RRE). You are welcome to send the message along to others but please do not use the "redirect" option. For information about RRE, including instructions for (un)subscribing, see http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/events/news/recruit.html] Tenure-track Position Available at SIMS September 1, 2000 The Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning in the Fall Semester 2001 at the Assistant Professor level. Applicants should have received, or be about to receive, a doctoral degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Business/Management, or a related social science. Candidates should possess expertise and demonstrated research excellence. Examples of particular areas of interest are: human-computer interfaces and interaction, cognitive/social/organizational aspects of information systems, computer supported collaborative work, and databases/datamining/visualization. The successful applicant will be expected to establish a quality research program and to teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in his/her area of specialty. Applications with vitae, a select subset of papers, a short statement of future research plans and interests, and three letters of reference should be sent to the address given below by December 15, 2000. Mailing Address Chair of the Search Committee School of Information Management and Systems 102 South Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:27:00 -0700 From: "William Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phil Agre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Jobs ... Education Related Jobs postings and requests. Recruiters and job seekers post jobs, contracts, resumes, and other education related opportunities. Both K-12 and higher education postings are welcome. Subscribe at: http://www.egroups.com/group/edujobs or via e-mail at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAP and Wireless Internet / Web Related Jobs Job postings and requests. Recruiters and job seekers post jobs, contracts, resumes, startup opportunities. Subscribe at: http://www.egroups.com/group/wapjobs or via e-mail at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bluetooth (tm) Related Jobs Mailing List Job postings and requests. Recruiters and job seekers post jobs, contracts, resumes, startup opportunities. Subscribe at: http://www.egroups.com/group/bluejobs or via e-mail at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB and Internet Related Jobs Job postings and requests. Recruiters and job seekers post jobs, contracts, resumes, startup opportunities. Subscribe at: http://www.egroups.com/group/webjobslist or via e-mail at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Austin http://www.topsitelists.com/bestsites/bluetooth/ http://www.stockhelp.net/ Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:15:41 +1100 (EDT) From: John Gero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tenurable Position Available - Lecturer in Design Computing LECTURER IN DESIGN COMPUTING Tenurable Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition Department of Architectural and Design Science University of Sydney, Australia Applications are invited for a full-time Lecturer in Design Computing to teach design computing in the new Bachelor of Design Computing degree and the graduate Design Computing program as well as to undertake research in design computing. The new BDesComp degree, within the Faculty of Architecture, includes digital media representation and design, computational models, software development and design studios that focus on advanced technologies in design computing. The successful applicant will also join the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition recognised for its international leadership in design computing, artificial intelligence, design cognition and virtual architecture. Applications close 23 November 2000 For full details and further information contact Professor Mary Lou Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 19:02:25 -0500 From: nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Positions at Rutgers RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY School of Communication, Information and Library Studies Department of Library and Information Science Tenured and Tenure Track Positions The Department of LIS seeks applicants for three tenured or tenure- track positions to begin Fall 2001 and anticipates additional positions over the next two years. We are looking for candidates with teaching and research expertise in one or more of the following areas: * information retrieval * information technology; human computer interaction; networks, or computer interfaces * organization of information and knowledge * school media services * youth and children services The Department of Library and Information Science leading Rutgers University in accomplishing its strategic plan in the area of information sciences and technology. The Department seeks dynamic scholars to build upon its internationally recognized program of research, teaching and service. Qualifications for these positions include a Doctorate in an appropriate field; research and publications commensurate with experience; evidence of ability to carry out a research agenda; potential for teaching excellence. These positions require individuals who can effectively participate in the following academic programs: a new undergraduate program in Information Technology and Informatics; a Master of Library Service (M.L.S.) program; an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Information and Library Studies. Priority will be given to applicants applying by December 1, 2000. Applications, consisting of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names and contact addresses of three references, should be sent to: Carol C. Kuhlthau, Chair Department of Library and Information Science School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 4 Huntington Street Rutgers, The State University New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 732/932-7917 Fax: 732/932-2644 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. FACULTY POSITION IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO The Department of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for a faculty position at the assistant professor level (tenure-track) starting July 1, 2001, the salary commensurate with the experience of the successful applicant and based on the UC pay scale. The department of cognitive science at UCSD was the first of its kind in the world, and, as part of an exceptional scientific community, it remains a dominant influence in the field it helped to create. The department is truly interdisciplinary, with a faculty whose interests span anthropology, computer science, human development, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The department is looking for a top-caliber junior researcher in cognitive science. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (or ABD). A broad interdisciplinary perspective and experience with multiple methodologies will be highly valued. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of California, San Diego is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All applications received by January 1, 2001 will receive thorough consideration until position is filled. Candidates should include a vita, reprints, a short letter describing their background and interests, and names and addresses of at least three references to: University of California, San Diego Faculty Search Committee Department of Cognitive Science 0515-EM 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0515 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 17:44:38 -0800 From: Barry Saferstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> California State University, San Marcos, Mass Communication. The Department of Communication announces a tenure track position, assistant professor, to begin August, 2001. The candidate selected will teach and conduct research in one or more of the following: Uses and issues of new media, computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, World Wide Web production and analysis, information science. We seek an effective and creative teacher who has demonstrated potential for high quality scholarship and who has experienced success teaching students from diverse populations. The University is located in the northern part of San Diego County, just minutes from the coast, in a suburban setting. To apply, send letter detailing your qualifications, vita, summary of teaching evaluations, two samples of scholarship, and names of three references to Bud Morris, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Communication, CSU San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 92096-0001. Review of applications will begin on February 16th and will continue until the position is filled. CSU San Marcos is an Equal Opportunity/Title IX Employer. The University has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity and, in that spirit, seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, members of minority groups, and people with disabilities. Date: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:59 PM From: Leslie Ricketts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Consumers Union Yonkers, New York Search for the Director, Web Credibility October 2000 The Search Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports Magazine and Consumer Reports Online, seeks a Project Director to develop and implement a Web Credibility Program, a major foundation-funded initiative. The purpose of this national program is to improve the integrity, reliability, and credibility of information on the Web, by promoting appropriate disclosure of web site business policies and information practices, and effective separation of editorial content and advertising. The Mission and History of Consumer Union Consumers Union is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving only consumers. It serves as a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition and other consumer concerns. Since 1936, the mission has been to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers. CU's publications and media do not accept advertising; the organization's income is derived solely from the sale of Consumer Reports and other services and from noncommercial contributions, grants, and fees. Through its publications and media, Consumers Union reports on current issues of concern to consumers. Consumer Reports, the organization's flagship print publication, reaches approximately 4.1 million subscribers each month. In addition to publishing the results of over 70 product test reports each year, Consumer Reports regularly carries articles on health, personal finance, marketplace economics, and other matters that affect consumer's health, their money, and well being. Consumer Reports Online, CU's Web-based information service, currently has more than 480,000 subscribers, and is one of the largest paid subscription sites on the Web. Consumer Reports Online contains everything that's in the current magazine plus a searchable archive of over 40 months of past reports, including our product and service ratings and recommendations. The site also contains Consumer Reports Online's exclusive E-Ratings of online shopping sites, along with interactive forums hosted by CR experts. The free (non-subscriber) area of the site includes policy-related articles, product recalls, consumer-interest and safety information, and general advice for consumers, as well as links to consumer organizations and other helpful sites. Consumers Union also publishes Consumer Reports on Health, a monthly newsletter with 330,000 subscribers; Consumer Reports Travel Letter, a monthly newsletter with 145,000 subscribers; and a variety of special publications and books. Consumer Reports TV News, a nationally syndicated TV news service, reaches consumers in approximately 100 cites around the US, including 19 of the top 20 metro markets. CU also operates syndicated radio and print services, and obtains extensive free media coverage through the outreach efforts of the Office of Public Information. CU's advocacy offices address the crucial task of influencing policy that affects consumers, which is so integral to the Consumers Union mission. Consumers Union advocates tackle consumer issues that are regional, national, and even international in scope from their offices in New York; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco, California; and Austin, Texas. They testify before Federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies, petition government agencies, and file lawsuits on behalf of consumer interests. The advocacy offices and Consumer Policy Institute address the crucial task of influencing policy that affects consumers, which is so integral to the Consumers Union mission. The Consumer Policy Institute, at Consumers Union's headquarters in Yonkers, New York, promotes the consumer interest through research and education projects, conferences, policy papers, and comment on legislative and regulatory initiatives. Context For The Search The growth of the World Wide Web presents compelling new opportunities and challenges for the nation's consumers. For most people, the World Wide Web did not exist five years ago. Now, more than 100 million Americans use it. This new, virtual world empowers consumers to shop for everything from online tickets to colleges and to get news and information on every imaginable topic. At the same time, because of its revolutionary and explosive growth, the Web has failed adequately to develop conventions -- like those in the print and broadcast worlds -- that help people assess the reliability of the information on their screens. The line that separates editorial content from advertising is often blurred or nonexistent on the Web. Consumers, therefore, are disadvantaged: it is difficult for them to evaluate the credibility of vast amounts of information they find in cyberspace. Further, although the stakes are particularly high with health and medical sites, the business of mingling editorial and advertising touches nearly everything on-line -- stock advice, travel rate-quotes, education resources, even the presentation of news. "The Internet is destroying the classic divide between media and commerce", Forrester Research, a Boston-based firm that analyzes Internet issues and companies, concluded in a 1999 report entitled "The Content-Commerce Collision". Unbeknownst to the consumer, because traditional ads and subscriptions do not yield enough revenue to support commercial Internet sites, Web publishers have fashioned unpublicized and often invisible alliances with on-line retailers, and Web publishers can receive significant undisclosed payments from companies highlighted on their pages, or to whom their customers are referred. In recognition of the conflicts and confusion that are an outgrowth of the new technology, in June, 2000, the Pew Charitable Trusts awarded to the Consumers Union a $3.42 million grant to support the Web Credibility Project, a three-year initiative aimed at establishing, promoting and winning adherence to credibility standards for Internet publishers -- a broad category that ranges from traditional media to e-commerce vendors. A request for an additional $2 million has recently been approved by the Knight Foundation. In addition, the Open Society Institute has provided a $100,000 grant in support of the project. The Web Credibility Program The main vehicle for carrying out the Web Credibility Program will be Credible.org, a project of the Consumers Union. Led by the project director, the effort will be housed at Consumers Union headquarters in Yonkers, N.Y. The project director will lead a staff that will include a communications director, a research manager and additional consultants as needed for specific activities of the project. Credible.org will engage in two major complementary and multi-tiered activities. It will first inform and educate consumers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and media about on-line credibility issues through objective research reports that highlight the nature and scope of credibility and information disclosure problems on the Web. Against this backdrop of heightened awareness of what is wrong, Credible.org will work to develop core credibility standards that will be widely publicized and promoted. Challenges Facing the Director, Web Credibility The Web Credibility Program is conceived as a high visibility-high impact program. Although the current funding is for a three-year period, it is anticipated that this effort will become part of the ongoing work of Consumers Union. The major, initial challenges will include the following: To develop a high-impact strategic research and publications program to document the nature and extent of problems with information disclosure on the Web. The production of unbiased careful research on the problems with information disclosure on the Web will be essential to shine a public spotlight on web credibility problems, potential policy solutions, and methods for consumers to protect themselves. This research will be commissioned from experts who will examine broad trends and business practices in specific fields such as health, travel, education and sites aimed at children. Through survey work, Credible.org will also seek to evaluate the extent to which consumers are aware of financial conflicts of interest and gauge the importance they attach to these issues. To lead efforts to formulate effective standards for credible information practices; generate buy-in among key media and industry stakeholders for credibility standards. The director will be responsible for leading the effort to develop effective web credibility standards and to promote them widely in the media, among industry groups, with an advertising campaign aimed at consumers and publishers. Standards will include web site identity and physical location; business practices and financial relationships - including labeling of advertising and sponsored content; information practices-such as criteria used by search engines in determining how results are sorted; and security procedures - how user data will be protected or sold. The standards will be published on the Credible.org web site and promoted through conferences, publications, speaking engagements, and demonstration software that will show Web publishers how to incorporate the standards into the design of their sites. To serve as a national, visible champion for effective consumer and public interest protections in Web information practices. To ensure success, the director of Credible.org must become a visible champion for the program, generating among the stakeholder groups discussion, debate and a growing consensus as to the importance of the issues, the developing of options for solutions, and a consensus as to the best ways to proceed. To develop a communications program to raise public awareness about Web credibility problems and to disseminate the program's findings to consumers, journalists, and Web publishers A strong communications program will be essential to every part of the Credible.org program. The strategy will include extensive media outreach regarding the research reports and standards; the organization of a national conference to highlight the problems posed by unreliable information on the web; staff participation in panel discussions at a variety of regional and national journalistic forums; and public presentations by the project director at conferences of consumer groups, media organizations and the advertising and marketing communities. These efforts will be enhanced by paid advertising in national newspapers and magazines and key regional publications with two purposes: to raise consumer awareness of the risks associated with sites that do not adopt credibility standards; and to inform journalists, consumers and the publishers of the program's standards and to encourage their adoption. To provide dynamic leadership to the Web Credibility Team that will include a Researcher and a Communications Specialist and to leverage the existing staff, communications and research resources of Consumer Union in support of the Project's objectives. The director's leadership skills will be important for timely commencement and progress toward the project's objectives. Equally important will be the ability to successfully integrate the project's initiatives with those of ongoing Consumer Union programs, both to leverage the expertise and experience of the existing CU staff and to ensure the projects most effective long term continuity. The Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate will have a Bachelors Degree, with a Masters Degree desirable. The candidate will have at least seven years of progressively responsible professional experience in one or more fields related to this work, such as journalism, web publishing, information technology, teaching, and/or public interest and public policy work. Additionally, s/he will possess strong research, writing, editing and communication skills. This individual must demonstrate the ability to present complex ideas in concise terms. In addition to these core requirements for the job, other characteristics will be very important: This individual must take the long view and be able to develop a vision for the project. National expertise is very desirable. The Director of Web Credibility must have the ability to integrate efforts with other CU projects and ongoing programs such as Consumer Reports Online, Intelligence, ability to speak well, experience with media interviews and familiarity with the many worlds of journalism, the Web, and setting of standards, and public interest work are a must. Familiarity with online industry and the ability to project credibility to this constituency is important. The candidate needs to have the ability to examine and consider private and public interests. This individual will need to be an energetic and personable project manager, with the ability to build support within internal and external constituencies. The individual will need to fit into the highly collegial Consumer Union culture, and be able to embrace a constructively critical environment. The individual must be able to demonstrate the ability to work in a team environment while taking a highly organized approach to leading the Web Credibility effort and developing its project team. The ideal candidate must be analytical and well spoken. The prospective Director of Web Credibility must identify with the mission and values of the Consumer Union. TO APPLY: Send C.V. with cover letter in strict confidence to: Sharon M. Flynn Hollander and Barbara R. Stevens ISAACSON, MILLER 1275 K Street NW, Suite 1025 Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: 202-682-1504 Fax: 202-682-9335 The Consumers Union is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages a diverse pool of candidates for this search.
