hitchner@riacs.edu (Lew Hitchner) (03/23/91)
Subject: Summer job posns. -- virtual reality programmers -- NASA Ames Summer job positions for graduate student or upper division undergrad or person with equivalent experience (TEMPORARY JOBS, NOT PERMANENT): Employer: RIACS (Research Institue for Advanced Computer Science) Location: NASA Aerospace Human Factors Division NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (Silicon Valley) Qualifications: Required: + U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident (INS Green Card) + advanced C language and Unix programming skills + experience in one or more of the following: - graphics rendering systems - graphics modeling systems - X11 Window System and X toolkit (user and/or programmer experience) - user interface design and development - geographic information systems (GIS) + experience in one or more of the following: - image processing algorithms and programming - database systems - geology or geomorphology - human vision perception Desired: + experience in a Virtual Reality Lab !!! Terms: negotiable, but generally: + length of employment 12 weeks (June to Sept.) + 40 hour work week with flexible hours + salary is at an hourly rate + minimal benefits (Workman's Comp. and not much else) + travel expenses to/from Moffett Field for job relocation + possibility of continuing part-time employment during school year for local grad students Project: Visualization for Planetary Exploration This project, now in its third year, is developing software for use with a Stardent GS-2000 graphics super-computer and a head-mounted display (currently using VPL EyePhone with a Polhemus 6 degree-of-freedom tracker). The software and hardware support 3D interactive visualizations of terrain data of the planet Mars. The terrain data is derived from NASA Viking orbiter imagery that was processed by the USGS. User applications include virtual world visual simulations for planetary astro-geologists and for rover vehicle landing site selection and traversal planning. The project has an operational prototype version of a virtual reality terrain visualization system that has been running for about one year. Our work is research and development on virtual reality systems for spatial exploration. There are at least three other virtual reality R&D labs in the division working on related application areas (robotics, audio, scientific visualization). Contact: Lew Hitchner, hitchner@riacs.edu 415-604-6438 RIACS MS 262-2 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 Respond with a copy of your resume, including job experience or schoolwork especially related to our project. Please reply before April 12, 1991. If you're reading this msg in a newsgroup, please reply directly by email (preferable) or phone (less preferable) rather than replying to the newsgroup.