From: mctjns@river.tay.ac.uk
Subject: JOB-OFFERED: Professorship of Computer Games, Games, and Virtual Worlds
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:15:25 GMT
Message-ID: <009B1D4E.B3C9337A.20@zippy.dct.ac.uk>
Organization: University of Abertay Dundee



JOBS OFFERED

Professor of Computer Games, Graphics and Virtual Worlds
School of Informatics
University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland

Remuneration package negotiable in the area of 40,000 UKP per annum
plus research budget in the area of 100,000 UKP.  The successfull
candidate will be expected to be an established researcher in the
field of applied computer graphics with a strong record of publication
in first-rate journals and a successfull current research profile in
terms of income, students and contacts.

The School has good working relations with major Scottish-based,
world-leading computer games companies.  It also has growing links in
the virtual reality community with major international virtual reality
researchers and developers.

The School's emphasis is to build a strong, national and international
centre for applied computer graphics based on its expertise and
contacts.  The new post of Professor in this field provides an
excellent opportunity for a dynamic individual to direct this primary
research work in a direction that will allow him/her, the School and
the University to build on its expertise and become a major centre for
graphics applications innovation.

The School is currently strongly involved in Virtual Heritage
(http://river.tay.ac.uk/~mctjns).  It is expected that this will be a
major field together with computer games.  In addition there are
strengths in programming and graphics.

Although the post is only concerned with research, the school intends
to build on the growing links with industry by establishing its own
commercial innovation centre in the field, from September 1997 there
will be a MSc course and from September 1998 there will be a new
undergraduate BSc degree in the field.


mctjns@river.tay.ac.uk