horn@euroies.UUCP (Chris horne eies) (01/28/86)
Trinity College Dublin Dept of Computer Science Distributed Systems Group Research Assistants Applications are invited for the posts of Research Assistants on collaborative projects in the Office Systems area of the EEC funded ESPRIT programme. The posts are tenable from 1st February 1986 and may run until 31st January 1989. The work will involve operating systems, computer networking and programming language aspects of reliable distributed systems for electronic office environments. Applicants must have a minimum of a good honours degree in Computer Science or softare related Engineering. Experience in any of the following areas would be an advantage: - distributed systems in general (locus/Vkernel/Isis/TABS/Argus/ Accent/Amoeba/Chorus/etc, etc); - ISO network protocols - UNIX kernels and/or other operating systems kernels - atomic transactions and resilient objects - Smalltalk-80 and/or Simula; - Modula-2 and/or C and/or Ada. The general computing environment at Trinity includes Vaxes, Dec 2060, ICL 39/80 "estriel", Whitechapel MG-1s, Sun-1s, home brew NS16000 systems, ICL Clans (plus Macs and Pcs, etc); VMS, TOPS-20, ICL VME, and of course UNIX (Ultrix-32/Genix/System V/V7/Unos - and Xinu!); 10mbit ethernet (decnet and ICL Oslan), 3mbit ethernet, and X.25 (UK Janet coloured books). The work in the ESPRIT projects concerned would be in a UNIX environment and on "bare" machines (No underlying op. sys). Salaries will be in the range of IR#9,581 to IR#18,982 per annum, depending on experience. Applications should include a detailed curriculum vitae and the names of two referees, and these or informal enquiries should be directed to: Dr Chris Horn Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2 Ireland mail: ...mcvax!euroies!horn tel: +353.1.772941 ext 1538 or 1765 telex: 25442 TCD EI