# Funded PhD studentship available

"Chris Hand" (cph@dmu.ac.uk)
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:04:38 PST

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    This position was previously advertised and filled in August/September 1995,
    but for reasons unrelated to the project has recently become vacant again.

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          PhD Studentship in Collaborative Virtual Environments for
    		   Distributed Software Engineering

    		     School of Computing Sciences
    		  De Montfort University, Leicester

    Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD research studentship tenable
    at the Department of Computer Science, De Montfort University,
    Leicester.

    Applicants should hold a first or upper-second class honours degree,
    MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related
    discipline, and must have 2 years' practical experience of OO
    analysis, design and software development, along with knowledge of at
    least one OOPL, preferably Smalltalk or SELF.  Experience with UNIX
    software development and MOO would be beneficial, as would knowledge
    of Distributed Object Technology (eg. CORBA).

    The successful candidate will work on a joint project with British
    Telecom developing a collaborative virtual environment to support
    distributed software engineering.  Work will be undertaken at De
    Montfort University's Leicester campus, although the candidate will be
    expected to spend at least 3 months in total at BT's research labs in
    Martlesham.

    The position is funded by an EPSRC Industrial CASE Award, and
    remuneration will be according to standard EPSRC maintenance grant
    rates, supplemented by a contribution from BT.

    Applicants should send a detailed CV by fax, post or e-mail (ASCII or
    PostScript only), no later than 31st December 1995.  Informal enquiries are
    also welcome.  Interviews will be held in Leicester on January 19th 1996
    (provisional date).

    Contact:

        Chris Hand
        Department of Computer Science
        De Montfort University
        The Gateway
        Leicester  LE1 9BH

        Tel: 0116 257-7498  (direct line)
        fax: 0116 254-1891
        E-mail: cph@dmu.ac.uk