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Research Associate Position on Java at Imperial College, LONDON
More information can be found at:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/situation.html#job3
The Department
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Imperial College London is one of the largest Colleges of the University
of London. It currently has over forty full-time academic
staff, and is active in research on many topics including Logic and
Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems and Software Engineering,
Theory and Formal Methods, Advanced Languages and Architectures,
Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, Decision Support and Financial
Modelling, and Communicating Agents. It was rated 5* (the top rating)
in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, and is also
rated Excellent in teaching.
The Research Project
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The research associate will be employed on the
SLURP: Sound Languages Underpin Reliable Programming
project.
The SLURP group is investigating the semantics of the Java language.
It has been demonstrated breaches of the Java security may be
originate with the possibility of breaking the type system through a
combination of fooling the byte-code verifier and the linker/loader.
Previous work by the members gives a concise specification of a
substantial portion of the Java programming language and shows that the
type system is sound. That work is being extended to take in
environmental issues such as the effects of separate compilation,
dynamic linking, the byte-code verifier and finally, to be able to
characterize a large portion of the language and the environment
for which it is demonstrably safe to run externally produced
Java code
The Research Position
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The successful applicant will pursue research on the project under the
supervision of Dr Sophia Drossopoulou and Susan Eisenbach.
This project combines both theory and practice. Fluency in Java or a
similar language such as C++ is necessary. Some familiarity with
operational semantics would be very useful.
Duration and start date
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The post is for approximately 30 months, starting as soon as possible
after 1 March 1998.
Salary
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Salary will be on the RA1A scale (£17293 -- £24919 including
a London allowance of £2134) depending on age, qualifications, and
experience.
Applications
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Applications should consist of a full CV with a list of publications,
the names of at least two academic referees, and a short statement in
support of the application.
Please send the completed application to:
Susan Eisenbach
Department of Computing
Imperial College
180 Queen's Gate
London SW7 2BZ
UK.
Tel (+44) 171 594 8264.
The closing date is 28 February 1998.
Informal Enquiries
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Prospective applicants are welcome to contact Susan Eisenbach for
informal enquiries or discussions. Phone (+44) 171 594 8264 or,
email se@doc.ic.ac.uk ;
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Dr. Sophia Drossopoulou tel: +44 171 594 8368
http://www-ala.doc.ic.ac.uk/~scd/
Department of Computing fax: +44 171 581 8024
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
LONDON SW7 2BZ, England email: sd@doc.ic.ac.uk