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Jobs Offered (2007-2008)

Jobs will be advertised here as the details become available.
If you have worked for a particular course before, and would like to again - but the details are not yet published on this page - please contact the Course organiser (for first and second year courses) or the Course lecturer (for Honours courses) and copy your email to tutor-applications@inf. New posts will be added throughout the summer, please check back for the latest additions and don't forget to click 'reload'.
Last updated: 27 September 2007, by Anna Hobbs.

1st and 2nd Year JOBS

First Year Courses
Semester	Course (hyper-link takes you to advert)	Lecturer	TA	Tutors	Demonstrators	Markers
1	Informatics 1A - Functional Programming (Haskell)	Phil Wadler	Filled	Filled	Filled	Filled
1	Informatics 1A - Communication & Logic	Dave Robertson	Filled	Filled	Filled	Filled
2	Informatics 1B - Object-Oriented Programming (Java)	Julian Bradfield	Filled	Filled	Filled	Filled
2	Informatics 1B - Data and Analysis	Alex Simpson	Filled	Filled	Filled	Filled
1	Computer Programming Skills and Concepts 1	Cintra/Koehn		Filled	Filled
1	Computer Literacy	Butler				Vacant
2	Human Communication 1	Lascarides/Thompson		Filled
2	Computational Foundations of Cognitive Science 1	Keller/Osborne	Filled	Filled
Second Year Courses
Semester	Course	Lecturer	TA	Tutors	Demonstrators	Markers
1	Informatics 2A	Webber	Filled	Filled	Filled -Python Filled - nltk	Vacant
1	Informatics 2A	Anderson	Filled
1	Informatics 2C	Efthymiou	Filled	Filled	Filled	Filled
1	Informatics 2C	Stevens	Filled			Filled
2	Informatics 2B	Renals	Filled	Filled		Vacant for CW3 only
2	Informatics 2B (general advert)	Cryan	Filled (detailed advert for this post)			Vacant for CW3 only
2	Informatics 2D	Rovatsos	Filled	Filled		Filled
2	Informatics 2D	Fleuriot	Filled			Filled

Honours and MSc Jobs

If the job you are interested in does not have an advert you should look at the course descriptor at http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ for an idea of the material which is covered in the module and you may also contact the lecturer direct for more details.

Semester 1

Course / advert	Lecturer	Job (and advert  for jobs with hyperlink)	Vacant/Filled
AI Large Practical	Shimodaira	TA (up to 85 hrs)	Filled
AI Large Practical	Shimodaira	Demonstrator (up to 20hrs)	Filled
Algorithms and Data Structures	Cryan	Tutors (tutors also mark the assignments for their group)	Filled
Automated Reasoninng	Fleuriot	TA (up to 50hrs)	Filled
Computability and Intractability	Sannella	Tutors	Filled
Computer Communications and Networks	Marina	Teaching Assistant (up to 140hrs)	Filled
Computer Design	McKenzie	Demonstrators each taking 1 afternoon (3 hrs) per week	Filled
Computer Security	Aspinall	TA (up to 60 hrs)	Filled
CS/SE Individual Practical	Jackson	TA	Vacant
Distributed Systems	Franke	Marker (up to 70hrs)	Filled
Embedded Software	O'Boyle	TA (up to 175 hours to help design a new practical - to be completed before Jan 08)	Vacant
Energy Aware Computing	Efthymiou	TA (up to 70 hrs)	Filled
Fundamentals of AI	Smaill	Tutors	Filled
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming	Hayes	Tutors	Filled
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming	Hayes	Marker (up to 30hrs)	Filled
Human Computer Interaction	Aspinall and Web	TA (up to 100 hours to help design and mark a new practical - to be started in S1)	Fillled
Informatics Research Review	Lascarides	TAs	Filled
Introduction to Cognitive Science	Steedman	Teaching Assistant (up to 40hrs)	Filled
Introduction to Cognitive Science	Steedman	Tutors	Filled
Introduction to Java Programming	Goddard	Demonstrators (1 demonstrator who will also do some marking)	Filled
Introduction to Java Programming	Goddard	Teaching Assistant to present Goddard's materials to a small group of Biology students at JCMB (approx 4 contact hrs per week + preparation time)	Filled
Introduction to Vision and Robotics	Fisher	TAs	Filled
Learning from Data	Storkey	Tutors	Filled
Linguistic and Computational Theories of Grammar	Steedman	Teaching Assistant (up to 35hrs)	Filled
Logic Programming	Robertson	Tutors	Filled
Modelling and Simulation	Gilmore and Etessami	Marker (up to 20 hrs)	Filled
Operating Systems	Bradfield	TA	Filled
Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning	Williams	Tutors	Filled
Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning	Williams	Markers (up to 60hrs)	Filled
Reinforcement Learning	Hayes	Marker (up to 30hrs)	Filled
Software Engineering with Objects and Components	Felici	Tutors	Filled

 

Video recording lectures

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Semester 2

Course	Lecturer	Job (and advert  for jobs with hyperlink)	Vacant/Filled
Advanced Vision	Fisher	TA	Vacant
Agent Based Systems	Rovatsos	Tutors	Filled
Agent Based Systems	Rovatsos	Marker (up to 30hrs)	Filled
Compiling Techniques	Franke	Tutors	Filled
Computer Architecture	Topham	Tutors	Filled
Computer Communications and Networks	Marina	Teaching Assistant (up to 140hrs)	Filled
Embedded Software	O'Boyle	TA (up to 175 hours to help design a new practical - to be completed before Jan 08)	Vacant
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing	Koehn	Tutors	Filled
Enterprise Computing	Gilmore	Marker (up to 10 hrs)	Filled
Intelligent Autonomous Robotics	Webb	Demonstrators	Filled
Knowledge Representation and Inference	Smaill	Tutors	Filled
Language Semantics and Implementation	Stirling and Simpson	Tutors	Filled
Models and Languages for Computational Systems Biology	Stark	Teaching Assistant (up to 40hrs)	Filled
Parallel Programming Languages and Systems	Cole	TA	Vacant
Reinforcement Learning	Hayes	Marker	Filled
System Design Project	Butler	Tutors	Filled

Schools outreach Jobs

If you would like to engage in activites which

• help promote informatics (computer science, AI, software engineering, etc) as a discipline to school children,
• inspire more school chidren to come into higher education,
• promote the School of Informatics as a good place to study computer science

then email Diana Sisu to apply for a demonstrator job during the events listed below.

Date	Event	Location	Time
15 June 2007	University Open Day	Central Area	9 - 16
7 September 2007	University Open Day	Central Area and King's Buildings	as above
29 September 2007	University Open Day	as above	as above
13 February 2008	UCAS Visit (for prospective undergraduate students who have been made an offer to study with us)	Central Area	10 - 16
5 March 2008	UCAS Visit	as above	as above
19 March 2008	UCAS Visit	as above	as above
11 April 2008	UCAS Visit	as above	as above
first half of April 2008	Science Festival	Royal Museum	all day
mid-June 2008	University Open Day	Central Area	9 - 16
Throughout the year	Visits to and from schools	various	various