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* Familiarity with algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data.
* Familiarity with algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data.
* Excellent verbal and written communication.
* Excellent verbal and written communication .
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- Archived postings:
- 1 Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen
- 2 Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH) at Educational Testing Service
- 3 Associate Research Scientist (NLP) at Educational Testing Service
- 4 Associate Research Engineer at Educational Testing Service
- 5 Junior Researcher at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
- 6 Junior Research Group Leaders at Saarland University
- 7 Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation at Microsoft
- 8 Reasoning about Agent's Mental States in Dialog and Joint Activity (CMU Silicon Valley)
- 9 Post-doctoral researcher in metaphor detection and analysis at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
- 10 Post-doctoral position within the area of automatic text summarization at Google Zurich, Switzerland
- 11 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research
- 12 Several Positions in Data2Text (Natural Language Generation)
- 13 PhD-position in sentiment mining and reputation analysis
- 14 PhD-position in folktale classification and clustering
- 15 Research Associate Position at Educational Testing Service
- 16 Postdoc Position at HRL Laboratories
- 17 Postdoc Position at Aberdeen University
- 18 Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
- 19 Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Queens College of CUNY
Research Fellowship at University of Aberdeen
- Employer: University of Aberdeen
- Job Title: Research Fellow in Computational Linguistics
- Location: Aberdeen, UK
- Deadline: 28th June 2012
- Date Posted: 22-May-2012
- Application Website: click on "external applicants", enter "Computational Linguist" under Search Vacancy Title and click "search"
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Research at Aberdeen is seeking to build a dialogue system allowing a person who is building a semantic web ontology to ask 'what if …?' questions about possible additions and changes to the ontology and get meaningful answers. This involves automated reasoning about what the consequences of a change in the ontology would be and intelligent presentation of the results. Because in general there will be infinitely many new logical consequences, the system will have to understand something about what the person is trying to do and what sorts of results will be most interesting to them. It is assumed that this information can best be provided by the person in the context of a natural dialogue system.
We are seeking a Computational Linguist to lead the theoretical and practical design and development of the dialogue system (other researchers will be investigating issues of efficient reasoning and issues of how to model the process of ontology authoring). The dialogue system is expected to use structured input (including an approach to specifying complex content based on "editing" natural text (see paper by Power in European Workshop on Natural Language Generation 2009) rather than free natural language text or speech, but nevertheless is required to be natural and to select and present information coherently.
You should have, or be about to acquire, a PhD in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence/ Computational Linguistics, with experience of natural language processing research at the postgraduate level and experience of implementing software for users. Research interests in conversational implicature/ relevance, logics and reasoning, dialogue moves and structures, the semantic web and requirements elicitation/ evaluation with users would all be advantageous but are not essential.
Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH) at Educational Testing Service
- Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
- Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (SPEECH)
- Location: Princeton, NJ
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Date Posted: 16-May-2012
- Application Website
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a Speech research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).
- Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of speech technology, or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.
- Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.
- Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.
- Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.
- Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.
- Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.
- Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.
- Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.
Ph.D. in Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on speech technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.
Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying speech capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of speech processing and their implementation in automated systems. Demonstrable expertise in the application of speech recognition systems and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++, Python).
Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:
If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 email@example.com
Associate Research Scientist (NLP) at Educational Testing Service
- Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
- Job Title: Associate Research Scientist (NLP)
- Location: Princeton, NJ
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Date Posted: 16-May-2012
- Application Website
- Contact email: email@example.com
ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for an NLP research scientist in the NLP and Speech group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).
- Provide scientific and technical skills in conceptualizing, designing, obtaining support for, conducting, managing, and disseminating results of research projects in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), or portions of large-scale research studies or programs in the same field.
- Develop and/or modify NLP theories to conceptualize and implement new capabilities in automated scoring and NLP systems to improve assessments, learning tools and test development practices.
- Apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting research studies and capability development in support of educational products and services.
- Develop and oversee the conduct of selected portions of research proposals and project budgets.
- Design and conduct complex scientific studies functioning as an expert in major facets of the projects.
- Assist in the conduct of research projects by accomplishing directed tasks according to schedule and within budget.
- Participate in dissemination activities through the publications of research papers, progress and technical reports, the presentation of seminars or other appropriate communication vehicles.
- Develop professional relationships as a representative, consultant or advisor to external advisory and policy boards and councils, research organizations, educational institutions and educators.
Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, with strong emphasis on NLP technology and preferably some education in linguistics is required.
Evidence of substantive research experience and/or experience in developing and deploying NLP capabilities is required. Demonstrable contributions to new and/or modified theories of NLP and their implementation in automated systems are required. Demonstrable and practical expertise with NLP tools and fluency in at least one major programming language (e.g. java, perl, c/c++, python) is also required. Familiarity with the application of NLP tools to educational problems, and a very strong statistical background and a solid experience with machine learning algorithms would be an asset.
Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:
If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 firstname.lastname@example.com
Associate Research Engineer at Educational Testing Service
- Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
- Job Title: Associate Research Engineer
- Location: Princeton, NJ
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Date Posted: 15-May-2012
- Application Website
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
ETS's Research & Development division has an opening for a researcher in the NLP & Speech Group. The Group currently consists of about 15 Ph.D. level research scientists in areas related to NLP and speech. Its main focus is on foundational research as well as on development of new capabilities to automatically score written and spoken test responses in a wide range of ETS test programs including TOEFL(R)iBT and GRE(R).
- Assist in the implementation of speech technology and natural language processing (NLP) components of medium- to large-scale, complex research projects for ETS researchers, testing program areas, and external clients. Consult with research scientists in the application, modification, and documentation of such systems using established technologies.
- Work effectively in a team setting and take an active role in contributing to team discussions and decisions.
- Analyze, design, modify, develop, document and implement technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Identify unexpected problems in the application of Speech and NLP tools, and develop solutions.
- Consult with research supervisory staff on the development of technologies for executing medium- to large-scale, complex Speech technology and NLP research and development tasks. Contribute to the implementation and support of new Speech and NLP methodologies to support research system development.
- Assist in the preparation of NLP development components of proposals and cost/resource estimates.
- Maintain continuing awareness of recent advances in speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and software development methodologies.
- Implement components of technical documentation of NLP software systems, solutions and results.
- Attend area-wide staff training and development sessions.
A Masters degree in Computer Science, NLP, Language Technology, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field is required.
A strong programming background, in languages such as Java, Python, Perl, and C, and facility with computational algorithms are essential. Coursework in statistics and experience in using machine learning toolkits are highly desirable. Experience with speech processing software (e.g. HTK, Praat, Matlab) is desirable.
- Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments.
- Familiarity with UNIX tools and scripting languages.
- Familiarity with algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of speech and language data.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:
If there are any questions, please contact: Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 email@example.com
Junior Researcher at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
- Employer: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
- Group: Language Technology
- Title: Junior Researcher
- Requirements:
- Permission to work within the European union
- Excellent English language skills; knowledge of the German language is a plus
- A degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related area (PhD is a plus, but experienced graduate students will be considered)
- Experience in statistical natural language processing (knowledge of unsupervised machine learning is a plus)
- Programming skills in C++, Perl and/or Java
- Strong ability to work independently and drive an original research agenda
- Deadline: June 15, 2012
- Date Posted: May 14, 2012
- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Language Technology group at the OFAI, Vienna, is looking for a motivated post-doctoral researcher or a well experienced graduate student to fill a research position within the basic research project "Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties".
The position involves basic research on issues related to data sparsity in machine translation between non-central language pairs. In particular, morphological closeness shall be exploited and bootstrapping methods shall be employed to counter the data sparsity. Further information is available at http://varieties.ofai.at.
A basic gross salary of EUR 40,000-45,000 per anno will be offered depending on the experience of the candidate.
OFAI encourages its researchers to publish results in the top venues (ACL, EMNLP, etc.) and provides travel funding towards this end.
Please send your applications, including a CV and a brief research statement, to Harald Trost <email@example.com>. The position is to be filled as soon as possible, not later than September 1st, 2012, and will terminate with the end of the project (December 31st, 2013).
About the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI): Founded in 1984, OFAI is one of Europe's leading non-profit research institutions in AI. Further information is available at http://www.ofai.at.
About Vienna: Vienna is the Austrian capital and consistently ranked as one of the most livable cities in the world. At over 1,600,000 inhabitants, Vienna is one of the largest cities in the central European region and home to numerous universities and research institutions, providing an intellectually stimulating environment.
Junior Research Group Leaders at Saarland University
- Employer: Saarland University, Germany
- Division: MMCI Cluster of Excellence
- Title: Junior Research Group Leaders
- Job ID: W490
- Specialty: Multimodal Computing and Interaction (incl. Speech and Language Processing)
- Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
- Deadline: April 30, 2012
- Date Posted: April 4, 2012
- Contact: http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf
The Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, seeks applications for a number of new Junior Research Group Leader positions. The Cluster provides a highly interdisciplinary research environment with a strong Computational Linguistics component. One of the Cluster's central research areas is 'Speech and Language Processing'. Group leaders will receive junior faculty status at Saarland University, including the right to supervise Bachelor, Master and PhD students. Junior research groups are equipped with a budget of 80k to 100k Euros per year to cover research personnel and other costs.
Deadline for applications is April 30th, 2012.
For the complete announcement see: http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/W490.pdf
Additional information on the excellence cluster is available on http://www.mmci.uni-saarland.de/
Please feel free to contact for further information any of the PIs (Matthew Crocker, Manfred Pinkal, Hans Uszkoreit) or JRG leaders (Vera Demberg, Caroline Sporleder, Ivan Titov) in the research area.
Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation at Microsoft
- Employer: MICROSOFT
- Division: Online Services Division
- Title: Scientist Position
- Job ID: 789594
- Specialty: Statistical Machine Translation
- Location: Bellevue, WA or Mountain Vew, CA
- Deadline: As soon as possible
- Date Posted: March 30, 2012
- Contact: https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=77908&jlang=EN
Scientist Position in Statistical Machine Translation
Research and Development Opportunities for Next Generation Technology at Microsoft
Do you want to impact billions of people all over the world with speech technology that you create?
We are looking for PhD level scientists and senior scientists, who will work on research and development problems in statistical machine translation. The candidates with experience in large-scale syntax-based statistical machine translation, weighted finite state transducers, natural language processing and machine learning will be preferred.
Microsoft is all-in on the Natural User Interface to bring computing to larger audiences in more applications. To drive this mission we are bringing together scientists and engineers in the areas of machine translation, speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialog modeling, machine learning and synthesis to develop and deliver robust, natural and scalable solutions across a rich set of scenarios and languages.
Join the excitement to be part of the newly formed team of scientists within Microsoft and to impact the lives of billions of people all over the world. We are talking about Bing, Windows, XBOX, Mobile, Exchange Server and Tellme, just to name a few. Microsoft is dedicated to improving everyday life using speech. And not just in a few countries - but around the world.
Reasoning about Agent's Mental States in Dialog and Joint Activity (CMU Silicon Valley)
- Employer: Inst. for the Study of Learning and Expertise at CMU Silicon Valley
- Title: Post MS, Post Doc, or above
- Specialty: Logic, Reasoning (Abduction/Inference), Production systems, Discourse processes, Reasoning
- Location: Mountain Vew, CA
- Deadline: As soon as possible
- Date Posted: March 21, 2012
- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
An ongoing project has an opening for a researcher who will help extend Icarus, a cognitive architecture, to reason about other agents' mental states in the context of dialogues and joint activities. The framework uses a logical formalism to encode knowledge, beliefs, and goals, and it relies on a form of abduction to make plausible inferences. Experience in building reasoning systems that operate over rich representations is essential, and a background in applied logic, knowledge-based systems, and/or cognitive architectures is highly desirable.
The location of the project will be Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley Campus. The start date is negotiable, but the position will be available on May 1, 2012, and the project has funding for another two years. Interested parties should send their curriculum vitae, along with the contact details for two or more references, to Pat Langley <email@example.com>.
Post-doctoral researcher in metaphor detection and analysis at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
- Employer: Illinois Institute of Technology
- Title: Postdoc
- Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Metaphor
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Deadline: As soon as possible
- Date Posted: March 13, 2012
- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science in Chicago, IL is delighted to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate, for a recent Ph.D. in computer science, computational linguistics, or related areas. We seek applicants to work with Prof. Shlomo Argamon in the Linguistic Cognition Laboratory, the PI of a federally-funded project to identify and analyze metaphors in multiple languages.
The ideal candidate will have a scholarly understanding of computational linguistics and metaphor, be an excellent programmer, and be comfortable with technologies for the analysis of big data. The postdoc will: (a) support development of automated language analysis and text mining for metaphor identification and analysis, (b) help manage the work of graduate research assistants on the project, (c) aid in developing research publications and external funding proposals, and (d) support other research and administration activities in the project.
Applicants from all areas relevant to the research are encouraged to apply. In addition to the core area of computational linguistics, training in machine learning, statistical analysis, and information retrieval will be helpful. Knowledge of Spanish, Russian, or Farsi is also a plus.
The position includes a competitive salary plus benefits. It will run through the end of 2012, beginning as soon as possible, with the possibility of a one-year renewal upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.
Interested candidates should apply via email to Dr. Shlomo Argamon (firstname.lastname@example.com). Applications should include a CV with cover letter, including the names of three references, giving contact information (email address and phone number) and relationship to the candidate for each reference. Inquiries can similarly be directed to the above email address. Prior to hiring, successful applicants will be required to submit either a transcript/diploma showing the date of an earned Ph.D. degree or a letter from their academic adviser confirming the expectation of the degree by May 2012.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Post-doctoral position within the area of automatic text summarization at Google Zurich, Switzerland
- Employer: Google
- Job title: Postdoc
- Specialty: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, summarization
- Location: Zurich, Switzerland
- Deadline: we are looking to fill the position soon
- Date posted: 1 March 2012
A post-doctoral position in the area of automatic text summarization within the RENDER project is available at the Google Switzerland R&D office. RENDER is a EU FP7 research project focused on identifying diversity of opinions, viewpoints, mindsets and backgrounds in texts from different sources: news, (micro) blog streams, and in collaboratively written resources like Wikipedia. More information on the project goals is available at http://render-project.eu/.
The duration of the post-doctoral contract will be one year, with the possibility of renewing for a second year. This position will allow the candidate to perform research on several NLP-related areas, to interact with the consortium partners and with other Google-internal research and development projects, and to apply the results of the research to real applications with a potentially large impact.
- The candidate should have a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or Information Retrieval. Experience with automatic text summarization, machine learning or opinion mining is a plus.
- Extensive programming experience in C/C++.
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Fluency in English.
- Perform research in the context of the project (text summarization).
- Develop prototypes quickly, and implement industrial-strength production-quality high-volume applications.
- Publish the result of the research in top conferences or journals.
- Be available to attend project meetings with the partners in the project.
For applying to this position, please send an e-mail to Enrique Alfonseca (email@example.com) including a paragraph on why you think you are a right person for the role, and a brief CV.
4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research
- Employer: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague
- Job title: 4 PhD positions in spoken dialogue systems research
- Specialty: spoken dialogue systems, machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Deadline: 1 June 2012
- Date posted: 16 February 2012
- Link to website: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs
Applications are invited for 4 PhD fellowships in the area of statistical spoken dialogue systems funded by the Czech Government. The students will join the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with an anticipated start date of October 1st, 2012.
Topic description: In recent years, it has been suggested that statistical approach to spoken dialogue system offer a framework to naturally handle inherent uncertainty in the human speech. The two main advantages of statistical methods are increased robustness in noisy conditions and more natural behaviour learned from data. However, the current methods need large corpora effectively preventing these methods to be used for complex dialogue systems occurring in real-life. The successful PhD candidates will investigate and implement statistical models and methods with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the learning process and reducing the need for large corpora. The conducted research will cover areas of spoken language understanding, dialogue management, and natural language processing.
Skills: Candidates should hold a master degree in a relevant area, such as computer science, mathematics, engineering or linguistics. A strong mathematical background, excellent programming skills (e.g. C/C++, Java, MATLAB, and various scripting languages under Linux environment), aptitude for creative research and autonomy are expected. Experience in machine learning, Bayesian methods, and natural language processing is a plus.
The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics is a top-level research group working in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing. During the fellowship, there will be good opportunities to attend international conferences and workshops. The formal applications should be submitted before June 1. Prospective candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Dr Filip Jurcicek (firstname.lastname@example.com) as soon as possible to obtain details about the application process, the institute, and the research opportunities. Additional information is available at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~jurcicek/jobs.
Several Positions in Data2Text (Natural Language Generation)
- Employer: Data2Text
- Job title: Graduate Developer, Natural Language Generation Engineer, Senior Software Architect
- Specialty: natural language generation, analytics
- Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Deadline: 2 March 2012
- Date posted: 7 February 2012
- Link to website: http://www.data2text.com/careers
Data2Text is a spinout from the University of Aberdeen's Natural Language Generation (NLG) research group. We are looking to hire several people; please see our website for details http://www.data2text.com/careers
This is a great opportunity for people who are keen on getting NLG technology out into the real world. In addition to the advertised positions, we're happy to talk to people who are knowledgeable about NLG and keen to develop commercial applications, but whose profiles do not fit the advertised positions.
Information inquiries (from the ACL community) should be sent to Ehud Reiter (firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com)
PhD-position in sentiment mining and reputation analysis
- Employer: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Job title: PhD-student
- Specialty: text mining, sentiment analysis, topic detection, reputation management
- Location: Rottterdam, The Netherlands
- Deadline: 1 March 2012
- Date posted: 6 February 2012
- Link to website: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions
In the context of the COMMIT project Information Retrieval for Information Services (COMMIT/Infiniti http://www.project-infiniti.nl/), applications are invited for a PhD student position. The research task will be to investigate the Mining of Economic Entities. As currently people easily share their sentiment regarding companies and products, reputation modeling has become increasingly important for commercial and non-commercial organisations. Due to the huge amount of opinions available through the Web, a manual approach for social media analysis for sentiment mining seems unfeasible, while there seems to be a huge potential for content-driven automated approaches. Through the mining of economic entities and the aggregated sentiment based on textual data, the aim is to support decisions on, e.g., product developments, marketing campaigns, etc. The envisaged prototype for a decision support tool will act as an indicator of public sentiment and trends. In addition, the variation in the dynamics of opinion forming for diverging domains such as economic news, political sentiment, and sentiment towards historical events will be studied. The PhD track is embedded in the work of the EUR team working on the Infiniti project (Erasmus School of Economics/Econometric Institute/ Computer Science Group and Erasmus Studio) and the student will be able to collaborate on related topics with PhD students and researchers from other organizations participating in COMMIT.
For more information please visit this link: http://www.eur.nl/erasmusstudio/about_erasmus_studio/open_positions
To apply, send an email with the required documents (cv, motivation, relevant certificates and the names of two referees) to email@example.com.
PhD-position in folktale classification and clustering
- Employer: University of Twente
- Job title: PhD-student
- Specialty: text classification, document clustering, natural language processing
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Enschede, The Netherlands
- Deadline: 4 March 2012
- Date posted: 6 February 2012
- Link to website: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425
Applications are invited for a PhD-student in the FACT project (Folktales As Classifiable Texts), funded under the CATCH programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This is a multidisciplinary research project involving collaboration between computer science and humanities researchers. The PhD-student will work on automatic classification of Dutch folktales by their international folktale type and on unsupervised clustering of folktales, to provide new input for humanities research. For this position, familiarity with the Dutch language is a plus.
The PhD-student will be employed at the University of Twente, but will spend most of his/her time "on site" at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam (http://www.meertens.knaw.nl), which maintains a large collection of Dutch folktales (http://www.verhalenbank.nl). The PhD-student will be part of a larger team within the e-Laboratory on Oral Culture at the Meertens Institute.
For more information and the application form, visit this link: http://www.utwente.nl/vacatures/?VacatureID=199425
Research Associate Position at Educational Testing Service
- Employer: Educational Testing Service (www.ets.org)
- Job Title: Research Associate
- Location: Princeton, NJ
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Date Posted: 28-Jan-2012
- Application Website
- Contact email: email@example.com
Educational Testing Service has an opening for a Research Associate position in the Research Coordination and Support Group. The successful candidate will primarily provide support to Research Scientists working on a branch of computer science and computational linguistics known as Natural Language Processing (NLP) by assisting in the management of resources across numerous projects, leading communication efforts both internally and externally, and participating in all phases of research projects, including research design, project management, data collection and analysis. He or she will also collaborate with researchers in responding to external requests for information, external grant applications, and in preparing study results for publication or presentation.
- Provide full professional support to and collaborate with a Director of Research; Senior Research Scientists; and Research Scientists.
- Participate in planning, management, and design of research. Serve as co-investigator in research areas; collaborate on research projects.
- Plan and manage annotations for a variety of projects.
- Design and develop plans for data collection; oversee data collection, reduction, and analysis; evaluate availability and usefulness of data; identify and collect additional data necessary for completing research projects.
- Monitor collection and quality of data; provide comprehensive review of data collected from field sites to ensure completeness and accuracy; oversee entry of data for computer analysis.
- Design original research instruments and methods and applications of research.
- Write, rewrite, and edit proposals, professional reports, research instruments, books (or sections thereof), speeches, handbooks, research articles, and correspondence. Specifically, develop standardized materials such as PowerPoint slides, capability descriptions, and research study templates for use in communicating about automated scoring capabilities; develop boilerplate text for external audiences and proposals; and craft proposal text on demand, based on existing standard materials and input from automated scoring researchers.
- Conduct or assist in direction and management of research projects. Conduct research of his or her own design, under general oversight of assigned supervisor. Manage resources across a wide-range of studies designed to support or enhance automated scoring technologies. Recruit and hire field staff; develop and monitor project budgets; coordinate and supervise field staff and consultants.
- Conduct literature searches; review current research on research models and methods; review and evaluate ongoing developments in automated scoring research; and evaluate evolving business needs. Perform independent analyses of information by reading, summarizing, and evaluating it preliminary to undertaking research. Update standard materials as needed, based on new developments in research or external conditions.
- Provide training and consultation on computer and systems applications, including customized annotation systems. Train and instruct staff on methods and procedures for annotation, data presentation, and explain methods of implementation to technical staff.
- Contact, establish, and develop relationships with research community and with data sources.
- Arrange and attend conferences and meetings; present research findings at professional meetings.
A Master's degree in linguistics, computer science, and/or natural language processing (NLP) is necessary.
The successful candidate will have four years of progressively responsible research experience in linguistics or natural language processing. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to craft high-quality written communications for technical and non-technical audiences and have experience managing a large number of concurrent projects.
Interested parties can apply for the position through the following website:
If there are any questions, please contact:
Dave Yanchuk (609) 406-5291 email@example.com
Postdoc Position at HRL Laboratories
- Employer: HRL Laboratories, LLC
- Job Title: POST DOC RESEARCH STAFF - Social Media Analysis & Data Mining
- Location: Malibu, CA
- Deadline: Open until filled
- Date Posted: 26-Jan-2012
- Contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com
HRL Laboratories, LLC. (http://www.hrl.com) has openings for a postdoctoral researcher position in the area of social media analysis / data mining. HRL laboratories is one of the most innovative research organizations in industry. Overlooking the pacific ocean in the hills above Malibu, California, our beautiful surroundings are matched by our capabilities and commitment to being a world-class research and development lab. We collaborate with top researchers in academia to advance the fields of information and systems sciences, sensors and materials, applied electromagnetics, and microelectronics. Please visit http://www.hrl.com/careers/cars_jobs.html for more information. For job considerations, please send your cover letter and CV to email@example.com.
Job Description:
EDUCATION DESIRED: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, EE or related fields
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Postdoc Position at Aberdeen University
- Employer: University of Aberdeen
- Rank: Post-doctoral Research fellow
- Speciality: Intelligent Language/Multimodal Interfaces
- Location: Aberdeen, UK
- Deadline: 10-Feb-2012
- Date Posted: 19-Jan-2012
- Contact email: email@example.com
Digital Economy is an RCUK cross-council programme, aimed at realising the transformational impact of ICT for all aspects of business, society and economy. The dot.rural Digital Economy Hub at the University of Aberdeen is one of three large multi-disciplinary research hubs funded through this programme, and commenced its activities in October 2009. The Hub award to Aberdeen is worth £11.8M and will fund five years of activity. The Hub brings together a large team of researchers (70+) working in and across the disciplines of computer science, communications engineering, transport, health, social sciences and environmental sciences. For further details, see: www.dotrural.ac.uk To support our ambitious research programme we are looking to appoint a postdoctoral research fellow to work in the area of intelligent language/ multimodal interfaces. The Research Fellow will help develop and be responsible for natural language generation (NLG) based and other creative forms of on-line communication in a research project on effective communication of river water levels to the public, as well as contributing to interfaces of similar kinds needed for other projects related to natural resource conservation. The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of natural language processing techniques or multimodal interfaces (at the PhD level). They will have some knowledge of NLG and a desire to learn more. The candidate will have a PhD or be about to complete a PhD in Computer Science/ Artificial Intelligence or a relevant discipline. Enthusiasm for digital technology and innovation relevant to society and the economy is essential as is the ability to work in a cross-disciplinary team including colleagues in computer science and engineering. The ability to use GIS would be an advantage. As this post is externally funded it is available for a period of 2.5 years.
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Postdoc or Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
- Employer: IHMC (www.ihmc.us)
- Rank or Title: Research Associate - Natural Language Processing
- Specialty: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
- Location: Ocala, FL
- Deadline: Applications accepted until position is filled
- Date Posted: January 3rd, 2012
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About Us IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of the Florida University System and is affiliated with several Florida universities. Researchers at IHMC pioneer technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities. These systems fit the human and machine components together in ways that exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. The design and fit of computational prostheses require a broader interdisciplinary range than is typically found in one organization, thus IHMC staff includes computer scientists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, physicians, philosophers, engineers and social scientists of various stripes, as well as some researchers who resist all attempts to classify them. Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, robotics, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data and language understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas. IHMC faculty and staff collaborate extensively with industry and government to develop science and technology that can be enabling with respect to society's broader goals. IHMC researchers receive funding (current funding in force exceeds $25,000,000) from a wide range of government and private sources. IHMC research partners have included: DARPA, NSF, NASA, Army, Navy, Air Force, NIH, DOT, IDEO, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Boeing, Lockheed, and SAIC, among others.
The candidate will be appointed on a new US Government project on metaphor detection and understanding, due to start in the coming months and run for up to five years. Ocala, Florida is an excellent location, close to Florida's major university and about an hour from both coasts. IHMC is housed in an excellent, state of the art building in the city center.
▪ Natural language processing / computational linguistics background. Ideal: metaphor and/or machine learning applications
▪ Substantial skills in processing large scale corpora. Ideal: Java skills and standard statistical procedures.
▪ Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.
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▪ 3+ plus years experience in natural language processing / computational linguistics in industry or large scale academic research project.
▪ Expertise in at least some of the following specific NLP areas and topics: question answering, lexical semantics, collocations, terminology extraction, disambiguation, multi-word expressions, (shallow) parsing, named entity recognition, lexical acquisition, paraphrasis acquisition, information extraction, text classification, evaluation methodologies.
▪ Familiarity with existing data resources and tools: Wordnet, POS taggers, parsers, LingPipe, SVMLight, NLTK, Weka, and similar tools.
▪ Ideal: experience with ontologies, RDF, other semantic web resources or tools.
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Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Queens College of CUNY
- Employer: Queens College of the City University of New York
- Location: New York, NY
- Deadline: Review of applications to begin on March 1, 2012
- Website: http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/
- Date posted: January 4, 2012
Visiting Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
The Department of Computer Science at Queens College of The City University of New York (CUNY) is pleased to announce a visiting faculty position for academic year 2012-2013, beginning September 1. This is a research-focused temporary position, and we encourage applications from candidates with a successful publication history in machine translation, speech recognition, or other research areas of natural language processing or machine learning.
Both junior and senior researchers are encouraged to apply; compensation and title are commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates are expected to collaborate with members of our current faculty in computational linguistics -- either on existing research projects or on new joint endeavors. If interested in teaching experience, the visiting faculty member is also invited to teach one course on a topic closely related to his or her research specialty.
The department's computational linguistics faculty, which include two current NSF CAREER Award winners, participate actively in the Ph.D. programs in computer science and linguistics, based at CUNY Graduate Center. These faculty members have active research grants from the NSF, DARPA, the Army Research Lab, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. More information about the growing research community in computational linguistics across CUNY is available on this website: http://nlpatcuny.cs.qc.cuny.edu/
Qualifying candidates must have an earned Ph.D. by August 2012 in computer science, linguistics, or a closely related field, with a demonstrated research record in the areas listed above. Also required are the ability to work with Ph.D. students, interest in productive scholarship, teaching and communication skills, and ability to cooperate with others for the good of the institution.
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Looking at that picture, has he encountered a strange alien race of head shrinkers?
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell is locked in a legal battle with the US government over just who owns a movie camera which flew with him to the Moon in 1971. Edgar Mitchell with the Apollo 14 logo Mitchell - pilot of the lunar module Antares and the the sixth man to walk on the Moon's surface - pitched the camera for sale …
Looking at that picture, has he encountered a strange alien race of head shrinkers?
thefutureboy sez on 07.01.11 @08:57gmt:
"Looking at that picture, has he encountered a strange alien race of head shrinkers?"
Actually, no; he's encountered the International Latex Corp's. A7L PGA (Pressure Garment Assembly) designed for the Apollo crews. A rather bulky piece of gear, it had a way of making even the slightest-built astronauts look huge, invincible and godlike -- even a short, wiry little dude like Pete Conrad.
I expect he also has a Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle for sale on eBay ... marked: "Buyer collects".
Unlikely, there was no LRV on Apollo 11.
Try reading the article before commenting... it was Apollo 14 not 11. However 14 didn't have a Lunar Rover, it was Apollo 15 that had the first Rover.
Someone has taken the KSC tour a little too seriously. :P
Nope, sorry; Apollo 14 carried only what could be described as a Lunar Golf Cart, a wheeled equipment rack used to carry sampling tools, drills, and Al Shepard's nine-iron.
Apollo 15 was the first mission to take the famous two-man "buggy" along. The LRV that went on Apollo 17 sustained some rear fender damage requiring improvised body work on-site, so I suspect it'd go for a bit less than "book value" on eBay. Still one owner, low mileage, though... and, yeah, it'd definitely be a "buyer pick-up" deal.
LRV development history: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apololrv.htm
Apollo 17 LRV, fresh from Gene'n'Schmitty's Body Shop: http://tinyurl.com/3ndsxwe
Rumour has it that someone accidentally released one of the modified Hasselblads while space walking a few decades ago, and it's still up there. Now that would sting if it caught you in the soft bits at 4 miles per second.
They also commissioned a space Leica but AFAIK that one never made it off Earth; they probably auctioned it to pay for a new Shuttle.
He risked his life in the name of science. Give all the Apollo astronauts an extra million bucks for their efforts. The pay really sucked back then.
Mitchell wants $80k. NASA wants the camera. There is an obvious solution.
Any other solution probably involves lawyers pocketing $80k in fees. In the grand sum of things I reckon Mitchell is the more deserving.
As I recall, Alan Bean (Apollo 12) got to keep the treaded overshoes he wore on the Moon. He brushed off all the dust that was caked on them and saved it all in a few small vials. He apparently still has some left; he mixes it in with the paint he uses in his paintings, and also uses the treads on his old lunar overshoes to texture the prepared surface of his canvases prior to painting on them.
NASA astonauts claiming Alien coverups?
Professional Geologists claiming creationist theory?
my world is falling apart!
am i still me?
No. You are my 63rd clone.
Your names wouldn't be Allitnil by any chance?
...professional creationists claiming to be geologists?
mark 63 sez on 07.01.11 @09:13gmt:
"Professional Geologists claiming creationist theory?"
Sad to report that Apollo 17 LMP Harrison Schmitt -- a geologist who trained all the other Apollo crewmen in geological fieldwork -- is now a climate-change denialist. The guy's still a hero in my book, but, jeezus... c'mon, Schmitty, get a grip, man:
In addition to Ed Mitchell becoming a UFOlogist and psychic-phenomena nut, there are two other Apollo astronauts -- Jim Irwin and Charlie Duke -- who ended up becoming full-on born-again Christian nutcakes. And Buzz Aldrin, of course, I need not discuss any further.
On the upside, Alan Bean's profound changes from his lunar experience resulted in him becoming one of America's greatest painters. Bean had always enjoyed painting in his off-time even back in his test-pilot days, but his visit to the Moon really stirred up something inside him enough to cause him to get really serious about his art full-time after he retired from the astronaut corps. Google "Alan Bean paintings" and check his work out. It's all space-related, but there's nothing cheesy or gimmicky about it; Bean really has an excellent eye, and his work really is full of heart and soul.
Say what you want about Neil Armstrong being taciturn and reclusive; at least he's one of the few Apollo crewmen who walked on the Moon and didn't end up becoming total cranks after they came home.
(pint of ale for Alan Bean, first Impressionist on the Moon.)
"Sad to report that Apollo 17 LMP Harrison Schmitt -- a geologist who trained all the other Apollo crewmen in geological fieldwork -- is now a climate-change denialist"
It's also sad that the The Register employs as a reporter one Lewis Page, also a climate-change denialist -- especially sad given that his bailiwick is Science.
"It's also sad that the The Register employs as a reporter one Lewis Page, also a climate-change denialist -- especially sad given that his bailiwick is Science."
I know it must be quite difficult for the MMGW fanatics to ram their dogma down everyone's throats while people are awkwardly pointing to evidence that contradicts their faith.
Burn all the heretics, or at least silence all differing opinions, right?
And you have the unmitigated gall to use the word science.
Sad that someone you admire doesn't follow your particular religion?
Perhaps you could try being less dogmatic and take a look at his point of view for a change, mkay?
It's odd how different people can use the same words to mean different things.
For you, a person is apparently a "fanatic" for pointing out that climate change is an established scientific fact, as confirmed by tens of thousands of working scientists, and as summarized in several reports of the International Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.
Fanaticism is, according to the dictionary definition, behaviour marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion. One of Churchill's pithy statements was that "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject". I think both are good definitions.
People such as myself who do have trust in the efficacy of the scientific method, as proven over the centuries, and in the consensus opinion of the vast majority of the world's climate scientists, are able to change the subject. Those involved in the actual research are naturally vocal about their field of study, and since they can see the danger the Earth's biosphere is in, are quite "enthusiastic" in beating the drum about the dangers. Perhaps to you that is "fanaticism", but I invite you to consider the possibility that they are acting in good faith, and are vocal for a good reason. I'm not trying to change your opinion here, but if, for the sake of argument, you concede that these scientists actually do believe that the Earth is in danger, would you not say that being enthusiastically (or perhaps a better word would be "urgently") vocal about the causes of the danger is not excessive?
You also use the word "dogma", which means (again according to Merriam-Webster) "1 a : something held as an established opinion; especially : a definite authoritative tenet ... 2 : a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church". Now, I'm guessing that you mean "dogma" in sense 2, as a religious truth handed on from high, and that you think anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is some sort of a new religion invented by scientists for who-knows-what reason. (Yes, I know, one of the standard propaganda points perpetuated by the deniers is that all these scientists are on some sort of a mutually supported gravy train scam, which just goes to show how little they know of the mechanisms of doing science.)
Even though in principle, every scientific result is provisional, there are some scientific facts that are so well established that one might say they do fit under definition 1a: for instance, no serious scientist really doubts the existence of atoms, of the different elements, of magnetism, of electricity, of gravity, nor of some more complex scientific theories (careful now: the scientific use of the word "theory" is different from the everyday one) such as the theory of evolution, because the evidence in favour, and the explanatory power, of such theories is so overwhelming. So, perhaps some such knowledge could indeed be said to be "held as an established opinion".
But let's assume you mean definition 2 instead of definition 1a. Now here is someone who calls the consensus opinion of tens of thousands of actual experts in the field, and the actual data of a world whose average temperature has been warming even faster than the worst-case predictions, "dogma", and presumably thinks the opposite of that is the truth. And based on what expertise, I wonder?
Again, I'm not trying to change your mind, but trying to make you see why those who do have trust in the scientific method and its results have exactly the opposite opinion: that you and the other climate change deniers are the ones who, ironically, believe in an unfounded dogma.
If you really are interested in the reason that experts in the field hold the opinions they do, you could start educating yourself. There are numerous books and online articles available in the field. For a start, you could go to this collection of links: http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics, which is a series of articles called "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming".
But I'm guessing that you're not even interested in looking at that, because you really, really do not want any facts to intrude upon what you really, really want to believe, namely, that there is no AGW.
It is only human to want to deny threatening things. You know the classic stages of dealing with grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Deniers are stuck in the first two steps. It does not help, of course, that there are powerful economic interests, such as oil companies, that correctly see the steps necessary to mitigate the effects of AGW as potentially harmful to their profits, and have thus started propaganda operations that have seeded the public conversation with the sorts of tropes that are then enthustiastically parroted by the deniers. (See, for instance, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jan/27/environment.science and http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/20/oilandpetrol.business.)
It is interesting to note that most people do not, in fact, believe certain things because they have been presented with evidence and arguments for different viewpoints, have weighed these, and then made a considered judgment among them; and if new evidence is presented, are prepared to consider that, too, and might even change their beliefs as a result. That is not how human nature works, but that is approximately the way the scientific method works. Since scientists are only humans, how can the scientific method work? It works because scientists are each others' worst (or best) critics, and subject all new hypotheses to harsh criticism. (A "hypothesis" is the scientific term for what laymen call a "theory".) All new scientific information goes through the mill of peer-review, and for a hypothesis or theory to be generally accepted, it must hold up very well indeed with all the available data and with the existing body of science.
But most people form their opinions of complex phenomena based on guesses, wishes, hunches, or on what people they trust for one reason or another tell them, and then have a hard time changing their opinions. (Just following ordinary conversations on various subjects is enough to show that there are plenty of people for whom almost complete ignorance of a subject is no hindrance to holding forth at length on it.) The human mind did not evolve to follow the scientific method, but to survive through instinct and hunch in the pre-technological nature. (See article http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5491, "People Believe What They Want".) I suppose that is why so many people, such as yourself, have such an aversion to accepting knowledge gained through the scientific method, especially if such knowledge feels threatening: the brain sometimes rejects threatening information until forced to deal with it. And in the case of AGW, humankind simply cannot wait until every last living person has been forced to see the consequences for himself before starting to mitigate them.
As for "burning the heretics" and "silencing different opinions": oh please. Where, I ask you, has anyone wanted to burn anyone else, or to silence anyone? Criticism, even strong criticism, is not "silencing". Climate change deniers have had the opportunity to give their point of view out of all proportion to the weight of their arguments, partly because most journalists are not scientists, and cannot judge the weight of scientific evidence. This is of course a phenomenon used to advantage by the denialist lobby; if they can keep the "controversy" alive through astroturf organizations, a couple of bought "scientists" and various fools, they can keep up the impression that the facts of the matter are still unsettled.
You say: "And you have the unmitigated gall to use the word science." Oddly enough, that also suits very well as my answer to you.
Oh well, you probably haven't even made it this far. I just thought I'd try.
"For you, a person is apparently a "fanatic" for pointing out that climate change is an established scientific fact, as confirmed by tens of thousands of working scientists, and as summarized in several reports of the International Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC."
This does not make it a "scientific fact" - its STILL only a theory, just like Newton's Laws of motion are theories and Einstein's General and Special Relativity are theories and NOT "facts". They may fit the observable phenomena but this still doesn't make them facts. Science doesn't produce facts - it uses facts to produce a theory that explains them, its called the Scientific Method.
The climate models used to produce these Climate change CLAIMS do not produce FACTS they produce predictions that don't even fit the observed facts so far, even when those facts have been cherry picked to fit the predictions!
If NASA didn't give him the camera, how did he end up with it?
Slip it into his briefcase one day? accidentally picked it up while clearing his desk when he retired....
And he if took it without permission, they'd just have to threaten him with the cops - though the publicity of a space hero being taken down the station would be counter productive.
Going to be one of those grey areas (though not the alien grey).
NASA management probably did give him the camera. 40 years ago things were done on trust, not everything was written down. These days you'd have to sign a release form and probably get the company lawyer involved to hand items over to staff. Unless someone from NASA who was in the room at the time heard a manager say "You can keep the camera" then Edgar will have trouble proving his claim. I guess a lot of people who might have been around at the time have popped their clogs over the last 40 years.
I'm surprised that Uncle Sam would want to proceed with something that could dirty the name of one of their national heroes. It's not in their interest to do so, unless they want to muddy his name for another reason. Something to do with those alleged alien visits maybe.
"But we do not share his opinions". How very mainstream media knee bowing of you, laquee.
But seriously, Who. The. F%%k. Else. can you believe other than the guy who actually went there and saw it with his own eyes. You think they choose crazy people to go in space? They're all highly trained scientist of one discipline or another who are also highly stable mentally under pressure.
If the guy that went in space says he saw spaceships, then by God I will believe him over corporate drone sitting at their desks eating their donuts.
One day History will marvel at how long we had our head in the sand with so much daring our senses!
Actually back in those days almost all NASA astronauts were test pilots first and scientists secondly. Schmitt on Apollo 17 was the first and only 'true' scientist to fly to the moon.
To be fair though, Mitchell is not the only astronaut to have said this kind of thing. Gordon Cooper ("Who's the best damn pilot y'all ever did see?") was quite vocal in his later years about seeing alien spacecraft being tested by the military in Germany.
As to "You think they choose crazy people to go in space?" all I can say is look up Lisa Nowak.
That doesn't make him an authority on ETs.
Nasa are claiming that everything used during the space mission belongs to them. Really? What about Dr Mitchells body he must have used parts of it during the mission. Say he cut his foot off. It's been to the moon does it actually now belong to Nasa?
Is that the origin of the phrase 'We own your ass'?
What are Nasa going to use an old obsolete movie camera for anyway? I say let Dr Mitchell keep it, it's like a bit of his pension FFS.
Maybe it's not the camera they want, but the film inside it...??
Lots of people saying "he risked his life. Nasa should let him keep it". That seems like a bizare reposnse. It looks like NASA were perfectly happy for him to keep it. He had it for 40 years. It is his attempts to sell it to the highest bidder that have raised a few eyebrows! If his space memorobilia is of such personal importance to him, great. The guy is a feckin' hero after all. But selling a piece of national and personal history with no regard to who's hands it might end up in.....
It's going to be a terrible NASA PR own-goal if they pursue Mitchell for a 40 year old camera...
How can a Hasselblad sell for $80,000? Is it broken?

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Discussion in 'Shoes and Apparel' started by mtommer, Feb 24, 2009.
You wouldn't want to hook a brother up with a large of that jacket, would you?
How are these Guy Fieri shoes??
Just found this shirt on the big auction site listed as non tennis and snagged it BNWT for $18 shipped. #FindOfMyLife.
Nice find...!
thanks for the info
or an xl
just saying
still don't get it....oh well
The monfils logo looks like guy
Anyway, they are really comfortable shoes and perform nicely on the court. For $25, I'm happy!!
Unfortunately no pictures, but I got the anthracite/cyber bandana (Fed FO 2012), the white/green bandana (RF Wimbledon 2012) and a red/white bandana for 8€ each.
I was just in downtown crossing (boston) TJmax, they had a L of for $30, a L for $16, an XXL for $50.
Pair of Blue white Barricade 6.0 @ ********* for $30.00
I found a bunch of Fed headbands at tj maxx. Color code 425. Blue Soar I think.
i hate all of you!
I've only scored ( At least i think i did ) on a Federer hat all red for $7.99 and a Nike black featherlite hat for $9.99 all bought at Ross. But sold both for a bit of profit Also i found a ton of Head "TENNIS" shirts all grey with sploshes of head logos in the lettering at TJ Maxx
the other day i found a pair of Courtballistec 4.3s at Nordstrom Rack for 50 bucks, this colorway
I have never found any tennis shoes EVER at Nordstrom Rack. Tennis shirts, never shoes. I always hear about it, but never find any. :-(
I found the US Open Jacket at tjmaxx for $50. It fits well ha!
Found this as well today at TJ Maxx. Size M. 50 bucks. Looks awesome.
All these good finds, I could never find any old apparels around my area. The last time I found was a court ballistic 3.3 white/blue size 13 for 39.99
I think winter is a better time to find stuff. At least it was last year
Just got them at Ro$$....
Agassi was wearing those shoes at the Garden on Monday night, the orange ones, but he lost to McEnroe 46.
Found Nike Classic white/with blue trim at Nike outlet for $22.00...unfortunately 1/2 size too small and no others available.
Wandered to adidas outlet and got Stan Smiths (white with navy trim) for $21.00.
I've been seeing loads of Head gear lately
Same here especially the shorts.
Just found New Balance 1187 white and blue for $29.99 at Sports Authority.
Got three pairs of these babies!!!!!
Drumroll...... $29.99 each
^ is my picture not showing up? Click the link if interested to see the shoes
Do those have a warranty? And where did you get them?
Since the shoes was manufactured over two years so those shoes will not have warranties.
Nicely nice!
Yes I realize that, but if he just bought them, they'd have a 6 month warranty if he bought them from a retail store.
Even if OP bought the shoes from an authorized dealer today, It does not matter. Nike warranty guide line state that Nike only cover the warranty for two years from manufacturing date.
Honestly, Nike inspector might not know the guide line and grant warranty though ^_^
Heh I got them online. They were also manufactured over four years ago but as long as the receipt is within 6 months it could go through. If I was able to get warranty on all three pairs that would be roughly three years of shoes hahaha!
CB 4.3 Neon yellow /white $55 Nike Outlet
Adidas Feather II white red
$59 adidas outlet
Oh. And Nadal 2011 Cincinnati/ Canada shirt, $20
For anyone in Raleigh, NC, G O L F S M I T H is quietly closing out their tennis department. Some older lines from Nike and Adidas can be found at decent prices.
Same applies to racquets.
I second this- and if you're not in Raleigh, they're closing out their online stuff too.
Had a gift card from some time ago that I was saving to get strings, grips, etc.), but picked these up for $60 instead:
the other day I found a RF wimbledon jacket, its white with the RF logo on the sleeve, green borders and details. The MSRP was $140, I bought it for $50 at marshalls. also a few head tshirts for $7. sweeeeet!
PS. I also saw the Adidas Barricade racquet bag (9 racquets i guess) for $15 on burlington. swweeeet x2!!!!
@decaico thats insane especially for a product that was released only in the summer. Are they the black/volt outsole or volt/white? And where did you find them?
DCaicedo- VERY NICE indeed on that price!
those are the black with volt outsole and are from a nike factory store.
Exactly. Black with the volt outsole.
But truth be told I lucked out because it was the only box with the sticker on it- the rest were all $90, including other size 12s.
The factory store in Elizabeth, NJ.
Just found the white and volt 4.3's at my local Nike factory store for 60$. Not bad if you ask me. Also picked up a Federer Indian Wells jacket and Nadal French open 2011 jacket for 29$ each at a Marshall's right next to it!
Someone probably took the sticker off of another shoe box and out it on this one (or maybe you did?) or a store employee put the sticker on the wrong box by mistake. But in any case, when they scan the barcode at checkout, the correct price of $90 should have come up.
if theres a sticker on it they cant do anything about it. My brother bought a nike jacket marked from $90 to $40 but there was a sticker on the label for $10 and they just charged him for $10
they can tell if you ripped it off another label and stick it on -_- it'll be obvious
But when you check out, the cashier scans the barcode, not the sticker. So whatever the price is in their computer database corresponding to that barcode is the correct price of the item.
Correct- the price scanned was $90, and no, the sticker was on the box prior to my arrival. The cashier honored the price on the sticker. Hence the "Lucky me..."
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Hi guys. Can you help me about this strange problem im experiencing right now. The first problem occured when im playing songs to itunes. And while the song is playing and i am browsing music, the monitor suddenly goes black and after like 10 seconds, it goes up again and there is an error i forgot what error is that but i think it mentions "display". then after that, i just let it go . Then today, the problem occured again and this time, the monitor goes black (while the power is still turned on) and it didnt get back to normal. I checked the video card and its fan isnt working. Im not sure if the video card is really shut down but its fan isnt really working for sure coz i touched it. I had reset it, and
it goes back to normal again. Can you help me on this please.
And just now, my screen goes hanged again while playing fifa 13, and it goes black for like 5 seconds then, while it is stucked, i checked the video card and the fan is still spinning it pressed the caps lock key, it is still functional so i think the processsor is still powered on. Right now, im suspecting if the monitor is the problem, but im not sure just my speculation. Im still trying to find a second monitor to test. Please help me.. Thanks..


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Discussion in 'Vendors' started by TheNedster, Feb 14, 2009.
stay tuned to this forum today for details on the new Sahara jacket
I am posting details about the sahara here:
too lazy to click through ? below are details for the Sahara. However i do recommend that you subscribe to the linked forum as many important questions are being answered there:
rear view (better shot showing profile coming tmrw)
Arm Adjustment Snaps:
Snap Details - three positions
Waterproof rear pouch (open)
Clear pocket on arm
elbow details showing stretch panel and SuperFabric
back details
Waterproof front pocket (open)
front pocket and the waist adjustment straps
shoulder stretch panels
rear pouch
rear pouch (open)
now onto one of my favorite features - the new kidney belt. it does wonders for long-distance comfort.
large panels and stretch fabric ensure a wide range of bellies can be accommodated.
ofcourse its fully removable using two zippers
Kidney belts keep your innards from shaking around and help support your lower back.
It really does help you ride longer with less fatigue. Does wonders for off-road riding thanks to the back support. Also helps to keep the back protector in place. Expect this feature to show up in our other high-end products. Air Shell, Navigator and Power Shell now ship with the feature.
the specs
Shell is made entirely from perforated authentic Cordura feature amazing air flow
Large SuperFabric panels for ultimate abrasion resistance
State of the art Sas-Tec body armor
- Sas-Tec elbow protectors
- Sas-Tec shoulder protectors
- Sas-Tec CE Level 2 back protector
Multiple pockets
- Two waterproof pockets on the front
- Hand warmer pockets
- Chest pocket
- Large waterproof backpack style pocket
- Clear pocket on the arm
- Pouch on lower back for additional storage
Dual front flap
Integrated kidney belt (removable)
Comfortable cuff design that allows you to wear gloves inside or out. The cuff is not bulky so it does not interfere with gauntlet style gloves
A wide range of adjustability for a tailored fit
- Adjustable collar (that can stowed for increased airflow)
- 3 position bicep adjustment
- 3 position forearm adjustment
- Adjustable waist
Stretch panels on elbows and shoulders
Reflective stripes stylishly integrated into the design
Collar and sleeve are lined with super-soft materials to prevent chaffing
Two connection zippers
- Short connection zipper for quick attachment /removal
- Full length 360 degree zipper for optimal protection
Optional thermal liner
What's up with your commute suit? Your web site says it is not for sale and that version 4 is coming soon. Any details?
its coming soon...
the waterproof liner will be built-in i.e. non-remvable. Materials will be upgraded to full Cordura construction.
expect it to go on sale early next year
Thanks. Do you have any of the version 3's left over? Living here in NM, waterproofness is not really a big concern.
nope... but we are taking orders for the Lombard, Mojave, Power Shell and Air Shell.
PM sent.
There is a small change to our Super Saver format.
Instead of multiple products having Super Saver offers on them, only one product will have the offer available at a time. The current offer will be at this page:
The time span to order will also be much shorter. The last day to order the Sahara with the Super Saver is now Dec 31st.
Starting Jan 1st, a different product will have the super saver offer.
Before you ask -
We don't know in advance which product will have the super saver offer next. There is no guarantee if the product you are looking for will even get the Super Saver offer.
v6 lombard pics:
One of the most commonly asked questions is about the differences between an Aerostich Roadcrafter and the Power Shell. I have highlighted some of the differences in my blog entry linked below:
Boy that Lombard looks good. Still wish it had cargo pockets and would lose the back pouch though.
Is it possible to get the new Lombard v6 without the logo on the back or change it to a more legible font style?
nope --- no logo delete option
fyi, typos
ughhh.. i have new tags in the works lol
looks like a good fit but seriously we need more pics (with the bike)
Perfect fit. I'll take some more pics ... as soon a I get a new bike. My Z was stolen. I should have a new one soon though.


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Powdercoating Small Parts On Your Race Car Provides Better Protection Than Paint, Resists Solvents, And Looks Great. So Why Aren't You Doing It Yourself?
Powdercoating is the process of applying a dry pigmented powder to a surface via air pressure and a light electrostatic charge and bonding that powder to said surface with the aid of heat to melt the powder so that it creates a hard, durable shell.
But you don't really care about that, and to be honest, neither do we. At Circle Track, we're all about helping you have success on the racetrack, not having science class. So let's get to the point.
Powdercoating is an excellent technology when it comes to protecting metal. And that is why it has become quite popular with both racers and chassis builders, who will have a new racing chassis sent out for powdercoating instead of paint. Compared to a traditional paintjob, powdercoat is stronger, more durable, resistant to solvents, is easier to clean, and just plain looks good longer. In the world of stock car racing where the chassis is constantly being blasted by sand and grit blown up off the track, having your chassis powdercoated-if you can afford it-is almost a no-brainer.
But we all know that race teams rarely go more than a week without changing chassis components. Whether replacing damaged lower control arms or updating the car with newer parts, the race car is always evolving. This often means that by midseason a team has many new parts on the car that it either didn't have time to send out for a matching powdercoat or just didn't bother and now have several components with poorly matching paint.
The good news is powdercoating smaller parts is actually a very simple and easy process. The big guys have lots of money invested in powdercoating equipment and wall-in ovens which are necessary if you are going to be coating entire chassis, but for smaller components it's overkill.
There are several different powdercoating options out there, but Eastwood has some of the most affordable and easy-to-use kits for the race team that wants to do some of its own powdercoating work. For this article, we got our grubby mitts on Eastwood's newest offering, the Dual Voltage HotCoat Powder Gun (PN 11676).
This newest gun adds a feature which allows you to choose between 15kv for smaller parts and 25kv for big jobs. The electricity ratings are used because most powdercoating systems, including this one, use electricity to put a small electric charge on the metal components being coated. This causes the powder to be attracted to the metal, resulting in a consistent coating even in hard to reach areas.
In addition to the gun, Eastwood also offers a multitude of different colors, including clear and chrome. All you need is an air compressor with a regulator capable of maintaining 5 to 10 psi and an oven for baking the powder onto the material after it has been applied.
As you will see from the included photos, we experimented on several different components and largely had good success. But, just like painting, the end result from any powdercoating project greatly depends on the prep work you put in. All components must be stripped to their metal, have any rust removed, and be clean of oils or other contaminants.
The process requires heating the powder to between 375 and 450 degrees (depending on the type) in order to get it to "flow out" or go into a liquid state, any parts you wish to powdercoat can't have rubber or other heat-sensitive materials on them.
Still, if you can lay your hands on an old electric oven at a yard sale or flea market, you will have exactly what you need to powdercoat your own suspension components, brackets, pulleys, or just about anything else you can think of. It only requires a little more time than fogging the part with a rattle-can paintjob, and the finished surface will be much easier to clean, which will save you time in the long run.
In this article, we'll hit most of the important points for powdercoating your own components, but if you want more information, Eastwood has an excellent resource available in the Powdercoater's Handbook. The book is a quick read and presents all the information in an easy-to-understand manner.


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Criminals Everywhere Unable to Carry Out a Simple Robbery
Criminals: are they becoming less able? In cities across the world, it has been a terrible week for those who try to make their living by robbing others. Three examples below illustrate this embarrassing trend of outlaw incompetence.
- COPS ROB COP: Two Philadelphia police officers are in jail, charged with robbing a drug dealer for 20 pounds of weed and $3,000 in cash. That drug dealer: an undercover Philadelphia police officer. Woops.
- AUSSIE OLDIE BOLDLY HOLDS ME: A (38 year-old) crook in Geelong, Australia ran into a liquor store with a knife and took $600 from the clerk. He failed to remain aware of his surroundings—"[A 63 year-old] retiree, meanwhile, watched the robbery unfolding from outside the store. He alerted a 53-year-old man in the store's parking lot and the pair laid in wait behind a nearby shopping cart." What happened when the robber emerged with his knife? That's right, the old dude rammed the shopping cart into his legs, pinned him to the ground, and "instigated a citizen's arrest." Oldest mistake in the book.
- DUNKIN NO-NUT PUNKS LIKE DONUTS: A man with a gun tried to rob a Dunkin Donuts in Farmingdale, Long Island last night. He went in through the kitchen door, at which time "an employee sprayed him with hot water." He left empty-handed.
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Each area has a food specialty.
What must I ABSOLUTELY try while in the Bloomburg area?
Each area has a food specialty.
What must I ABSOLUTELY try while in the Bloomburg area?
Chicken and waffles are an area staple.
Shoofly pie another
others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine...sylvania_Dutch
Isn't that where they invented the blooming onion?
I think the area is more southern and eastern European than Amish.
French fries freshly made ................. I think one of the vendors at the rally will provide them. The local potatoes are outstanding and are used to make Wise Potatoe Chips. The community event french fry stands are setup during high school football games and there are always long lines of customers.
Any family style dinner at the Brass Pelican 1119 Elk Grove Road, Benton, Pa 17814. I usually have their buckwheat ( all you can eat ) pancakes but the locals like their fish dinners. There sausage is made in Pennsdale at a well respected above and beyond butcher shop / general store. You may think that you are going to get lost getting there but this stop is in a remote area compared to even Bloomsburg. There is great GS riding on any of the mountain roads here.
For homemade Italian as good as Little Italy, inexpensive and prepared by a third generation Italian-Americans go to Franco's 450 3rd St, Nescopeck, PA 18635 * Careful with the portion size, I think they feed football lineman.
Most of the pizza in the area is great and prepared by third generation Italian families. Between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton in the town of Old Forge claims to be the best and those family places ran shops in Naples, Italy before coming to America. Its hard to say which is best, there are so many differant types locally. Some people rave others cringe, its what you like.
Or try White Pizza.
Berrigan's Sub Shop, 142 E Main St, Bloomsburg, PA 17815 has wonderful highly rated sandwiches , subs, hoagies .
And the hoagie vendor coming to our rally that I can't think of her name.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
I had some really good stuffed cabbage and perogies from the area as a payoff from a superbowl wager.
I would look forward to finding some really old style, farm cooked meals. Any family oriented things like this around the countryside would get my attention. Are the Amish folk into this sort of sharing and/or business??? I have travelled through the area many times in my life and find the farms the most beautiful found anywhere. Randy
Randy, I don't know if there are Amish family resturants unless someone made a tourist trap to fool people. But there are many family style places in all directions. Those Mom & Pop places to Church suppers on Friday and Saturday evenings are good and plenty in the rural towns. There are many dinners and dairy bars for burgers fries and ice cream. The area is kinda like Wisconsin but with less cheese and downwind from Pittsburgh.
Some Amish live north and west of Bloomsburg, many are those that left expensive Lancaster County who only farm and make wood products. The sign on the road will give you fair warning and welcome you to the area.
*Rumor has it that a Post Card Pennsylvania Farm maybe be a pre-rally GS School..............I am not sure about the menu.
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There are a bunch of faux Amish places around Lancaster like Good 'N Plenty. I'm not really impressed.
I will probably eat the same thing I eat everywhere I go. A good Cheesebuger I may enjoy a Funnel Cake for desert.
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Cave contents: 16 R12RS, 13 Toyota Tacoma, 03 Simplicity Legacy, 97 Stihl FS75, Dewalt DW625 & SawStop PCS175
1) My expectations are never low enough & 2) Incompetence is infinite ........David Brooks
Finally, I couldn't resist the urge and I asked her how she knew that I was from PA. She said it was easy. She was originally from the northern tier of PA and lived there until entering the military, so she knew the dialect. Of course, the fact that I was still wearing my employee badge, was also really helpful.........
So, order the goulash. It might lead be a good story and it wont kill you.
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1) My expectations are never low enough & 2) Incompetence is infinite ........David Brooks
The best new resturant I like is Aurants. It looks like a dive bar from the outside but a 4 star decor resturant inside. The chef is great and has connections in the game industry. He told me they maybe offering Zebra.
I do know the wild boar is worth it.
Its about a 30 dollar dinner per person place if you add the bar tab.
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Agree with you on the Noah comment, Kanter does seem to be more developed entering the league. Noah was not, in terms of body and maturity, however his mobility, desire and pedigree were never in question, also its nice that he took defence a lot more seriously earlier in his career than offence. Many young players just want the glory at the start. Noah has invested his time wisely and made himself into a highly sought after commodity.
As for Noah, I knew he would be great after watching the NCAA tournament. The off court distractions that were going on in Chicago made me lick my chops and push for an Andrea Noah swap. (This was back in the Andrea stretches out defences period) I was attacked mercilessly for wanting to destroy team chemistry by bringing in a headcase. LOL.
Often, NBA ready players come at the cost of future upside. The Raptors should shoot for highest ceiling available, unless... this kid really is 10 rebound capable. If he is, I understand your fascination.


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Personal computing discussed
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Can OSX see 4GB of RAM?
torax wrote:Usacomp2k3 wrote:Can OSX see 4GB of RAM?
Leopard - yes
Tiger - no
tanker27 wrote:PerfectCR, Make sure you keep the original RAM handy just in case you need your MBP serviced. Some places wont service it if "something" was changed by the consumer and undocumented in Apple's Database. I ran into that when I wanted a larger HD. I had to go dig around for the original 2gb. I was also told that if i ever had to send it to Apple that it would be refused without original parts or documentation.
PerfectCr wrote:This is Vista 32. Games in Vista didn't see any huge increase either.
derFunkenstein wrote:that's kind of what we all figured, I guess. What's your workload in OS X like?


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His career revitalized with the Seattle Sounders, Eddie Johnson now will get another chance with the U.S. national team. The striker announced his own call-up on Twitter late Friday night.
"Thank you to the Seattle Sounders and my teammates, family and friends for believing in me when everyone else didn't. #igotthecallupguys," Johnson wrote.
On Monday afternoon, U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann is scheduled to announce his team for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers on Oct. 12 and 16. But notifying players and making travel arrangements is well underway and Johnson, who hasn't played for the U.S. in two years, couldn't contain his excitement.
"Never let anyone tell you you're done when you have more in your tank. Coach Zigi (Schmid), Chris Henderson and Adrain (Hanauer), thanks for believing in me," he wrote. "Thanks for all the love and support guys through this long up-and-down journey. You've always stuck beside me. I've been waiting for this opportunity for a long time."
Since his last game with the U.S., Johnson struggled to maintain his form in with two clubs in England, saw a deal with a Mexican club fall through and left the game altogether for six months following the death of his cousin.
Seattle took a chance and signed the down-on-his-luck forward in February and has been rewarded as Johnson has scored 13 goals in 25 MLS games. He is tied for sixth in the league in scoring.
Klinsmann named four forwards to the team that played Jamaica twice last month — Jozy Altidore, Terrence Boyd, Clint Dempsey and Herculez Gomez. If the manager intends to carry four again for the upcoming games in Antigua and vs. Guatemala in Kansas City, Boyd would be the most likely man to be left behind. He has cooled off after his strong start to the season with Rapid Vienna.


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Intelligent Building Management Systems over IP Networks
IP Networks are exciting because convergence (over IP) is happening not just for voice, video and data. Even the IBMS (Intelligent Building Management Systems) are slowly converging over the IP Networks. In this article, we will see a short introduction to IBMS over IP Networks and some of its applications.


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