SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
                      THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
                                   UK

Research Fellow in AI/Cognitive Science:  Post Ref: S13683

Required to work with Prof. Aaron Sloman on a Leverhulme-funded project
on
    Evolvable Virtual Information Processing Architectures
    for Human-like Minds.

Applicants should have a PhD and multi-disciplinary research experience
in AI/Cognitive Science or related areas with a strong publications
record.

Futher details are available from this site, which includes information
about application forms.
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/jobs/rf.axs/particulars.html

Information about the School of Computer Science, its staff, and
research activities can be found here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/

Starting salary on the scale: #16,755 – #29,332 (pounds) a year
available for between 21 and 24 months. (The grant will also pay USS
pension contributions.)

Closing date: 1st Feb 2001 (Late applications may be considered).

Informal enquiries should be made (as soon as possible) to:

Professor Aaron Sloman, Email: A.Slo…@cs.bham.ac.uk

        (Please do NOT send me MSWord files.
         Use a platform-independent format, e.g. plain text, html,
         latex, postscript or PDF).

The aim of this project is to analyse requirements and explore designs
for virtual machine architectures with human-like capabilities. The
evolvability constraint is one of several constraints which it is
expected will eliminate theoretically possible, behaviourally
equivalent, architectures. The project will have a strong philosophical
component, including exploring and developing the thesis of "virtual
machine functionalism", which does not require all functions to be
behaviourally manifested or testable. However applicants should also
have experience of designing and implementing AI systems.

The successful candidate will work under the direction of
Aaron Sloman, but should be capable of independent research.

Our existing work in this area is reported in papers in the
Birmingham Cognition and Affect project directory:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/

Candidates will be expected to have some ideas about how to contribute
to our work.

For information about other lectureship and research posts currently
available in the School see
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/school/jobvacancies

Students interested in PhD research in this or related areas at
Birmingham should follow instructions in this file:

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/jobs/studentships/phd.general.html
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/
FREE TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html