jr@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Jonathan Rosenberg) (10/10/86)
Software Systems Designers Wanted
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Carnegie Mellon's Information Technology Center has openings for
qualified people with significant design talent and experience in a
number of areas:
EXTERNAL SYSTEM COORDINATOR: Manage the deployment of workstations
and software to 40 scientific groups at various universities and
arrange telecommunications connections.
DATA BASE EXPERTS: persons with significant design and
implementation experience in data base access techniques to
participate in the design and implementation of new information
services.
MAIL DELIVERY COORDINATOR: Manage a mail delivery subsystem, which
consists of a suite of programs for performing address mapping,
routing & final delivery of electronic mail & bulletin boards for the
campus & several external mail networks.
GRAPHICS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMERS: A wide variety of applications
are needed to support drawing, picture processing, electronic mail,
preparation of scientific papers, computer aided-instruction,
information retrieval, etc.
COMMUNICATIONS & FILE SYSTEMS PROGRAMMERS: Programmers familiar with
local area networks, DARPANet and OSI protocols, and distributed file
systems.
UNIX EXPERTS: programmers familiar with the UNIX and its kernel are
needed. In general, all applicants should be familiar with UNIX.
The Information Technology Center began as a joint project with IBM
aimed at building the technical underpinnings of a campus computing
system. With a technical staff numbering about twenty-five the ITC
created the Andrew system, consisting of a network, a file system,
and workstation applications, all integrated to support the creation
of new educational software and communications services suitable for
a university. A description of Andrew as it was in 1985 can be found
in the March 1986 issue of the CACM. Recently, the ITC was awarded a
contract (EXPRES) from the National Science Foundation to build a
prototype system for computer-mediated scientific communication. In
general, the ITC's charter is to explore innovative information
processing applications in a university setting. Carnegie Mellon is
a dynamic, diverse university with many first class computing
organizations. The ITC has joint appointments and activities with
many of them, including the Computer Science Department, the Robotics
Institute, the Center for the Design of Educational Computing, and
the Software Engineering Institute.
Reply to:
jhm@andrew.cmu.edu
or
James H. Morris, Director
Information Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA 15213