From prechelt at inf.fu-berlin.de  Fri Aug  1 02:18:37 2008
From: prechelt at inf.fu-berlin.de (Lutz Prechelt)
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:18:37 +0200
Subject: [CITASA] 2 Professorships "Covenience Telecommunication Services"
	at FU Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <793FF35679078340BCDDA196B495E57E7CE60A@spree.pcpool.mi.fu-berlin.de>

Due to a generous donation from the Sigram Schindler
Foundation, provided successful closure of the
endowment contracts,
   Freie Universit?t Berlin
   Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
   Institute of Computer Science
invites applications for the following positions:

Professorship in
Convenience Telecommunication Services Requirements
(Position R),
Professorship in
Convenience Telecommunication Services Architectures
(Position A)

The successful applicants will be required to do
research and teach in one of the aforementioned fields.

Both vacancies are positions with limited tenure
(5 years) at the rank of W3. Salary levels are to be
generously complemented by performance-oriented bonus
payments. The successful candidates will be appointed
either as public servants or as comparable salaried
employees for the duration of five years. Options for
subsequently extended or tenured employment may be
obtained from the articles 94(2) and 102(2) of the
Berlin Higher Education Act (Berliner Hochschulgesetz).

Triggers for creating these positions are: a trend
towards wireless and mobile communication; increasingly
diverse capabilities of personal communication devices;
an ever-increasing number of access methods and
networks; and a trend towards advertiser sponsoring and
away from fees for many services.

Their goal is to develop complex telecommunication
functionality that can be used with little cognitive
effort.

Research topics include (among others):
- Value-added features (various kinds of group-based
  communication functionality; recording; translation;
  geo services; location-based services etc.) 
- Awareness of all factors, technical and social,
  influencing opposite parties' communicative behavior
- Compensation or cover-up of technical issues such as
  quality problems or network handovers
- Effortless use of a complex landscape of services,
  even for occasional users

Formal requirement for employment:
In accordance with article 100 of the Berlin Higher
Education Act, a Habilitation, junior professorship, or
equivalent postdoctoral qualification is required for
both positions.

Additional requirements:
- For position R: a broad knowledge of Requirements
  Engineering (including ethnographic techniques),
  Human-Machine Interaction, Prototyping, and End-User
  Software Engineering; openness for close
  collaboration with neighboring disciplines such as
  Psychology, Sociology, and Business. 
- For position A: a broad knowledge of Telematics,
  Software Architecture, and techniques of Artificial
  Intelligence.
- For both positions: outstanding track records of
  successful research and university
  teaching-preferably with strong international
  components-as reflected by internationally recognized
  publications; excellent didactical skills; experience
  acquiring funding for, and carrying out, sponsored
  research.

The general language of instruction is German for
undergraduate courses, and German or English for
graduate courses. A non-German-speaking appointee is
expected to be able to teach in German within two
years.

Both professors will be expected to work in close
cooperation with one another, albeit assuming different
roles: 
- Professor R will research and teach-with a user
  perspective-how such services should be defined and
  designed, and will empirically evaluate prototypes.
- Professor A will research and teach-with a technical
  perspective-how such services can be realized
  efficiently and reliably, and will provide
  prototypical implementations.

We also expect the willingness and ability to provide
basic education in both undergraduate and graduate
degree programs.  

Please submit your application as specified at
https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/Inf/ProfTel 
(which also provides some additional information)
by 2008-08-27.


Freie Universit?t Berlin is a public university with
some 34,000 students and 380 professors. It has 11
departments structured into more than 70 institutes--not
counting the Charit? medical center, which incorporates
the medical schools of both Freie Universit?t and
Humboldt Universit?t. In 2007, the findings of a
government initiative to promote excellence in teaching
and research appraised Freie Universit?t Berlin as one
of the nation's leading institutions of higher
education. Detailed information is available at
www.fu-berlin.de and www.inf.fu-berlin.de.