26 September: fyi -- postgrad & postdoc positions (dialog), Austria
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Postgraduate and Postdoc Positions in Human Interfaces for Mobile
Multimedia Communications at ftw. (Vienna, Austria)
ftw. (Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Telecommunications
Research Center Vienna) is a cooperative research center involving
telecommunications companies, departments of the Vienna University of
Technology, and the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. More
information can be found at http://www.ftw.at/.
Task
Conduct research and development in the area of voice and multimodal
dialog systems, including combining voice dialog with mobile data
services and multimedia for GPRS/UMTS; distributed speech recognition;
usability research; noise cancellation; pronunciation modeling. The
precise topic will be negotiated based on the applicant's
qualifications. The positions provide the opportunity to work together
with leading companies in the fields of telecommunications and speech
technology. These one- and two-year positions are offered under the
Marie Curie Industry Host Fellowship scheme of the European Commission
and will become available between now and 2003.
Required Qualifications
* Experience in speech recognition, speech dialog or multimodal
dialog systems
* Masters or doctorate degree in one of the relevant disciplines
(computer science, communications, computational linguistics,
phonetics, mathematics, cognitive psychology)
* Good knowledge of English (written and spoken), communication
skills
* Meet the formal eligibility requirements of the Marie Curie Industry
Host Fellowship scheme - please check at
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_grad.htm or
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/fellowships/mcf_indhost_doct.htm
Additional Qualifications
A candidate with one or more of the following qualifications would be
preferred: * Speech signal processing * User interface design and
usability testing * SIP/H.323, JAIN, PARLAY, TCP/IP, WAP, HTML, XML,
VoiceXML * GSM, GPRS, UMTS infrastructures * Java / C++ experience *
Software engineering and project management skills * Experience
working in collaborative industry/academia projects * Knowledge of
German
Applications and inquiries should be directed to
Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (ftw.)
Dr Markus Kommenda (Managing Director), kommenda@ftw.at, or
DI Georg Niklfeld (Speech Proc. Project Manager), niklfeld@ftw.at
Donau City Str. 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43/699 10389 005
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