The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications from qualified candidates to fill a full time staff position in the area of multimedia on demand service, multimedia storage servers and ATM signaling. The successful candidate will participate in several high visibility projects at Washington University funded by ARPA, NSF's National Challenge Award and a group of industries including Intel, NEC, NTT, Samsung, Southwestern Bell, Sun Microsystems, and Tektronix. These projects are aimed at demonstration of a variety of multimedia and imaging applications on a large campus ATM network and on a gigabit ATM testbed.
Washington University's ARL has been at the forefront of research and development in advanced communications systems, particularly Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks. Its mission is to to develop high performance hardware and software technologies by building practical prototype systems and deploying them in testbed settings. ARL takes pride in prototyping systems that can be licensed to industry for product development. Since its founding in 1988, ARL has been occupied with applied research on high speed networking and high performance multimedia and imaging technologies. ARL has licensed three technologies from its laboratory: an ATM switch architecture, an ATM signaling system, and an ATM capable multimemdia motion-JPEG codec. ARL was also responsible for creation of the first metropolitan area demonstration of general multipoint ATM networking. It has also been deeply involved in multimedia applications for ATM and the technological components needed to enable these applications.
The Applied Research Laboratory is currently involved in the deployment of ATM technology across the Washington University campus and in the creation of a gigabit testbed comprising six ATM switching systems operating at link speeds of 622 Mb/s, 1.2 Gb/s and 2.4 Gb/, spanning the St. Louis metropolitan area. The testbed will include gigabit interfaces to a variety of systems and will use an advanced network interface chip being crated for the project.
For more information, look at the URL http://www.arl.wustl.edu/arl/
The successful candidate will work closely with Guru Parulkar, ARL staff members and graduate students and will play a key role in the design and implementation of a multimedia on demand service and a multimedia storage server. Other work will include continuing research and development of general multipoint ATM signaling protocols.
The preferred candidate will:
hold a MS in computer science or electrical engineering (a candidate with a Ph.D. and interested in a postdoc position is also welcome)
possess, strong background and interest in networking and operating systems,
have at least some hands on experience with protocol implementations and kernel programming,
have familiarity with NetBSD, and
have the people skills to work with faculty and graduate students.
Interested candidates should send a resume to:
Director
Applied Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
Washington University
Campus Box 1045
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, Mo. 63130-4899