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Participate in a ten-week mentored internship program from June 16 to August 22 2008.

With state-of-the-art facilities and equipment that includes research vessels, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to explore the deep ocean, MBARI offers teachers and students unique opportunities to be involved in advanced research and development projects. The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students and educators.

The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is to serve as a world center for advanced research and education in ocean science and technology. MBARI strives to achieve this mission through the development of better instruments, systems, and methods for scientific research in the deep ocean. MBARI emphasizes peer relationships between engineers and scientists as a basic principle of its operation. Teams at MBARI use cutting-edge technology to develop equipment, software, and research methods to meet the specific needs of deep-sea research.

The focus of the MBARI internship is on the intern's professional development – learning research techniques and improving communication and collaboration skills. Each intern will have an MBARI mentor who will supervise a specific project. Interns will also serve as peer-mentors to other interns.

Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation. and an online supplemental information form. The cover letter should include a statement of your specific research interests, complete contact details (phone numbers and email address, if available), and relevant coursework and grades received. Potential project descriptions are now available and applicants must indicate project preferences in their cover letters.

All materials must be received by February 22, 2008. Selected candidates will be contacted by mid-March.

The School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland is delighted to announce the launch of its MSc Intelligent Systems programme for 2006. Building on the School's leading edge research in intelligent systems this masters programme will be funded partially via the ESF scheme.

Intelligent Systems is an exciting field of study for science and industry since the currently existing computing systems have often not yet reached the various aspects of human performance. "Intelligent Systems" is a term to describe software systems and methods, which simulate aspects of intelligent behaviour. The intention is to learn from nature and human performance in order to build more powerful computing systems. The aim is to learn from cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, engineering, and linguistics for building more powerful computational system architectures. In this programme a wide variety of novel and exciting techniques will be taught including neural networks, intelligent robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, vision, evolutionary genetic computing, data mining, fuzzy methods, and hybrid intelligent architectures.

We are pleased to announce that we have obtained funding through the European Social Fund (ESF). ESF support enables the University to waive the normal tuition fee and provide a bursary of £ 50 per week for 45 weeks for eligible selected EU students, together up to about £5500 or about €8000. We also have support for fee-only stipends and further support under the women into science programme for UK and EU students.

For further information in the first instance please see:
http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/Teaching_frame.html
http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/courses/progmode.php?prog=G550Amode=FTmode2=dmode=C
http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/teaching/sund_is_app.pdf
For information and applications contact: alfredo.moscardini AT sunderland.ac.uk

One of the masters' objectives is to situate Europe in the centre of attention of a postgraduate education and research programme specialised in Computer Vision and Robotics by setting forth the necessary conditions to achieve an education of excellence and in permanent evolution. Nevertheless, this aim requires implicitly the achievement of an all-embracing education as to academic know-how, linguistic abilities and group leadership of the professionals who will have to compose the teams that must face the technological challenges put forward by today's industry in this field.

The structure of the masters is organized in a two-year program of 120 ECTS starting in September 2006, with 3 semesters of academic activity in the participating universities and 1 semester of project development in R + D centres or industries, allows the participation of the productive sector (public or private) as an essential element to obtain the aims determined.

Application deadlines for 2006 are now past.

All students must have a good quality Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Natural Science, Mathematics or equivalent qualifications. Students from non-English speaking countries are required to have passed TOEFL or IELTS test with specified results.

SpaceMaster will bring together as a core group students from the whole world to share the existing space competence, to develop it together and distribute it to benefit the European space industry and research community. First semester will be at the University of Würzburg, the second at the Kiruna Space Campus in Sweden next to the European rocket test range. The third semester can be studied at one of the 6 european partner universities according to the students specialisation objectives.

Application deadlines for 2006 are now past.

The International University Bremen (IUB) offers the Computer Science graduate program SmartSystems with strong robotics related components. There are various funding options both on the master and on the PhD level. The next round of applications started in January.

The general description of the program and especially information about how to apply is attached below. Questions concerning the content of the robotics oriented parts can be addressed to Prof. Andreas Birk. Please note that all general information on the program can be found under http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/smartsystems/ and that the actual application must be done via the admission office of IUB as described below. Questions concerning the application process can be directed to Mrs. Svenja Frischholz s.frischholz AT iu-bremen.de.

SmartSystems Graduate Program in Computer Science

As humans we can sense, act, speak, listen, decide and sometimes understand. The 21st century will witness technologies that can do the same. We will see cars that negotiate with each other in order to optimize traffic flow. Our T-shirts may have their own Internet addresses and tell the manufacturer if they are only rarely worn. In addition to their well-established role as programmable machine-tools, robots are also more and more used in domains where some autonomy and intelligence is necessary. They work under conditions where the robot is not constantly supervised by a human operator and where it has to be adaptive as its developer can not fully predict which situations it will encounter in its application environment.

We all know future descriptions of this kind; we also know that they are no longer science fiction, although real future may still look quite differently. But whatever route the future takes, it will be scientists and engineers who help in shaping it. They will develop systems (yet unthinkable) that could likewise be described as robots, user interfaces, web agents, enhanced reality or personal assistants.

The International University Bremen (IUB) takes part in this rapidly growing, boldly interdisciplinary endeavor. As part of the IUB Computer Science education, the graduate program in SmartSystems is offered. It integrates a rigorous training in several important disciplines of computer science, especially robotics, networks, artificial intelligence, databases and the mathematics of complex systems. A student acquires in this graduate program the knowledge to work at the forefront of technological developments.

The SmartSystems program offers the following two degrees, for which a variety of funding options and stipends is available:

The courses in the program start each year on September 1. Only a small number of students are accepted; the admission to the program is highly competitive. Admitted students can expect financial support in several ways. For the about twenty available places in the program, the fees are can be waived. Furthermore, there are generous additional stipends for excellent students. The result of a GRE subject test in Computer Science must be included in the application. There are two rounds of admission with respective closing dates on February 1st and May 1st. Detailed information on admission to graduate studies at IUB and the related forms can be found at: http://www.iu-bremen.de/affairs/graduatedegrees/27765/

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