Positions Available

Spring, 2001

Undergraduate Research Programmers

Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases

The Lab for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) of the Computing and Information Sciences (CIS) Department at K-State is seeking undergraduate research programmers, for research projects in the areas of:

· Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, and Uncertain (Probabilistic) Reasoning

· Scientific Visualization, Intelligent Displays, Virtual Environments

· Java-Based Architectures for Parallel, Distributed Computation and Visual Programming

· Time Series Modeling, Simulation, and Prediction

· Expert Systems for Problem Solving and Critiquing

Necessary Qualifications

· Experience with C, C++, or Java

· CIS 200 and one of CIS 208 or CIS 300, or equivalent coursework and experience

· Able to work 10-20 hours per week during the regular academic year

Preferred Qualifications

· One of CIS 500, CIS 520, CIS 540, CIS 560, or equivalent coursework or background

· One of Stat 510 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics) or Math 510 (Discrete Mathematics)

· Previous or future enrollment in CIS 690 (Data Mining Systems) or CIS 730 (Artificial Intelligence)

· Experience with any of the following is preferred:

- Java (JDK 1.1.x – 1.3, Swing) and/or C++ (MS Visual C++, MFC or Standard Template Library)

- ODBC/JDBC (especially Microsoft Access)

- Scheme, LISP; CLIPS, Art Enterprise; Perl, Tcl/Tk, or other scripting languages

- Introductory coursework in machine learning, knowledge-based expert systems, or DBMS

- Previous work on group projects

· Able to work 20-40 hours per week during the summer

· Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing

· Ideal candidates will be able to start immediately and remain with the group for at least one year

Our computing environment comprises a number of high-end Intel Pentium III Xeon, Sparc, PowerPC G4, MIPS R10000 (SGI) workstations and Beowulf cluster nodes, running Linux, Windows 2000, Solaris, MacOS X, and Irix. Software components of our environment include Borland JBuilder, Metrowerks CodeWarrior, MS Visual C++/J++, Lisp, Scheme, Alias|Wavefront Maya, Open GL, Renderman/BMRT, various expert system shells and scripting languages, and a vast array of visualization and computational mathematics packages (MATLAB, SAS, MineSet, NeuroSolutions, etc.). Our systems are connected by high-speed networks to the computing facilities of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance. The lab director is William H. Hsu (http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu).

Compensation is $8 per hour.

If interested, please send e-mail documenting:

· Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, and Statistics courses taken

· Names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of 3 references

· Overall GPA

To: kdd-search@www.kddresearch.org

The KDD Lab web site is at: http://www.kddresearch.org

This search commences 12/30/2000 and terminates 01/21/2001. For full consideration, please submit your application by 01/15/2001.