JOB-OFFERED: seeking director of virtual reality project

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Jon Christensen (jmc++at++UCSD.EDU)
Tue, 3 Sep 1996 13:46:42 -0700

I am leaving my position as director of the UCSD Virtual Explorer
project to join a small startup company which will be based in
Cambridge, MA. We are now beginning the process of looking for and
recruiting my replacement. The Virtual Explorer project is a
fast-moving, exciting program founded with the aim of developing
compelling, state-of-the-art virtual environments for college level
science education, working with an extremely talented (and fun!)
group of people. There is long-term, stable source of funding in
place, with a small theater recently completed to house the project
(where our current human immunology environment is now running).
If you are interested in this position, please see the more
detailed job description below. Also please feel free to forward
this message to others who you think may be interested.

Sincerely,
Jon Christensen

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Jon Christensen phone: (619) 642-0343
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering fax: (619) 534-7654
University of California, San Diego email: jmc++at++ece.ucsd.edu
3050 Urey Hall Addition, 9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0339 http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/~jmc/

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SEEKING DIRECTOR OF VIRTUAL REALITY PROJECT

We are currently seeking a person to assume leadership of an
advanced Virtual Reality project at UCSD. Critical attributes for
such a candidate are leadership ability, personality and ability to
work well with others, management skills, experience with real-time
3D graphics software and systems, and overall technical breadth and
ability. The appointment would be in the department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. An advanced degree in computer science
is preferred though not required, particularly if a candidate has
demonstrated experience with similar projects. Experience with
Silicon Graphics machines and 3D graphics API's such as OpenGL and
Performer is also preferred.

Our group is well and long-term stably funded, with a program to
develop VR based educational modules which we will make available
to universities, colleges and high schools, in versions which we
will also begin to port to commodity level PC graphics platforms
over the next two years. Our first module, of which significant
sections are now running on our high-end Silicon Graphics machines,
involves the human immune system. The overall vision is to make
learning science both interesting and exciting, and to demonstrate
compelling synthetic environments. Our group's background is
thirty years of computer animation and virtual reality applied to
both scientific research and to the production of many commercial
films for education and TV, and more recently to multimedia courses
(available on CD-ROM).

Please check our web page for further details about the project and
research group "http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/ve/". If you are
interested in applying, please send a CV and three letters of
recommendation to:

      Prof. Kent Wilson
      3050 Urey Hall Addition
      9500 Gilman Drive
      University of California, San Diego
      La Jolla, CA 92039-0339
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