Monthly Archive for February, 2009

About CRAY, INC:
As the global leader in supercomputing, Cray Inc. provides innovative computing platforms that enable scientists and engineers in academia, government, and industry to meet both existing and future computational challenges on a wide variety of applications.

Cray supercomputers provide superior sustained performance on critical applications, scalability to handle larger problems and the reliability to run jobs to completion. This gives scientists and engineers the ability to not only get answers faster but also allows a broad spectrum of users to ask new questions.

Internship Program details:
Cray Inc. offers a limited number of internship positions targeted at the best and brightest students. These internships run during the summer months (3-4 months in duration) between academic sessions and will be located in one of our four major locations (Seattle, WA, Mendota Heights, MN, Chippewa Falls, WI, or Austin, TX).
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Teaching Assistant INFO 360 – Spring Quarter 2009
University of Washington – Information School

Location
The Information School, UW

Position Description
TA for INFO 360: User-Centered Design

Start Date: 3/16/09
End Date: 6/15/09

We are seeking applicants for a TA position for the undergraduate course Informatics 360: User-Centered Design. This is an introductory course focusing on the theory and practice of user-centered design. In this course, students will examine methods for identifying users’ needs, understanding users’ behaviors, envisioning and prototyping new systems, and evaluating the usability of systems. Emphasis is placed on incorporating people in the design process from initial field observations to summative usability testing.

This position will average 20 hours per week. INFO 360 has two sections. Section A meets on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 2:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. with a lab on Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Section B meets on Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:30 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. with a lab on Thursdays from 1:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Classes run from March 30th through June 12th. The TA for this course must arrange with the instructor which class days and times will be attended on a regular basis, be available to lead the lab sections, and hold regular weekly office hours.
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Department: Product Management
Title: Technical Writer
Location: Seattle, WA
Type: Part-Time (Regular) – 20 to 25 hrs a wk.

MediaNet is the leading provider of business-to-business digital entertainment services, giving companies the ability to easily sell music and video online. Through our MN Open and MN Enterprise technology platforms, and using our comprehensive content, we are able to offer businesses of any size solutions that meet their needs and the needs of their customers. So, if you share our passion for digital innovation and want to take part in shaping its future, come be part of the MediaNet Digital team.

We are looking for a technical writer to create documentation in support of our new business-to-business product that enables website owners to quickly and easily sell music. The product dramatically reduces the time, cost and complexity associated with incorporating premium digital content into a website, blog, or product bundle. We need an experienced writer comfortable working side by side with developers, testers, product manages and program managers to create documents for both internal and external audiences.
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We are looking for upper-division undergraduate students or recent graduates for research assistantships in natural product drug discovery during the summer and/or fall 2009 with possible extension to spring 2010 in the labs of Drs. Marcy J. Balunas, Carmenza Spadafora, and Marcelino Gutiérrez at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Investigations and High Technology Services (INDICASAT) in conjunction with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama City, Panama. The project is part of a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) grant entitled “Training, Conservation and Drug Discovery from Panamanian Microorganisms” (Principal Investigator, Dr. William H. Gerwick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Continue reading ‘Tropical Disease Natural Product Drug Discovery Assistantships in Panama’

ART484 Projects in Interaction Design: The Future of Work / Microsoft Design Expo 2009

Prof. Axel Roesler / Division of Design / UW School of Art
Georg Petschnigg / Microsoft Research / Pioneer Studios
Tuesdays + Thursdays 2:30-420, Art Building Room 236
This class is open to all UW HCI related majors, graduate and advanced undergraduate. Continue reading ‘INTERACTION DESIGN Class announcement – Spring Quarter 2009′