alain@utcsrgv.UUCP (Alain Fournier) (11/15/84)
FACULTY POSITION IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS
AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
The Department of Computer Science has a tenure track posi-
tion open to any good candidate, from a senior person with
an excellent research record and a proven ability to manage
a computer graphics lab, to a bright just graduated Ph. D.
There is now a very active group in Computer Graphics,
headed by Bill Buxton and Alain Fournier, with over 15 gra-
duate students (5 of them PhD students). The active
research topics include modelling, rendering, computer ani-
mation. computational geometry, graphics system architec-
ture, input devices, interactive techniques, UIMS, complex-
ity of graphics algorithms, high quality text on raster
display, colour spaces and semantics of rendering. In the
past five years, 8 SIGGRAPH papers were authored or co-
authored by members of our lab (and 5 more by past and
future members).
Our present equipment includes a shared Vax 11/780, an
Adage (Ikonas) 3000, a Matrix with a 16mm camera, many stan-
dard and custom input devices, various low cost frame
buffers, access to SUN, Perq and locally designed worksta-
tions, and miscellaneous graphics terminals. We also have
negotiated access to a Dicomed film plotter and a Cray-1S
(the access to the Cray is to the tune of 2 CPU hours this
year, maybe more next year).
The Department at large has an excellent reputation
(top half dozen in North America, by some measure), the stu-
dents, especially the grad students, are very good (and
numerous). The position will include membership in the Com-
puter Sytems Research Institute, which groups 40 plus
researchers from Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
and other related fields. Members are involved in research
in networks, languages, database, office information sys-
tems, programming methodology, modelling and performance
evaluation.
In Toronto live 2.5 million people, several dozen eth-
nic groups, thousands (millions, billions) of black squir-
rels, and two Turing Award winners.
For more information, contact me through the net, or
mail:
Alain Fournier
Sandford Fleming Bld
CSRI
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
M5S 1A4
(416) 978-6983