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Postdoc / Summer Internship Opportunity on FPGA-Based Numerical Algorithm Design

Accelogic is seeking a talented research intern or Postdoc with FPGA experience, to assist with FPGA implementation aspects of a new revolutionary family of hardware-oriented algorithms in the field of computational mechanics. This person will be part of the team in charge of algorithm/architecture design, and will contribute to the implementation of the world's first prototype of a hardware-oriented algorithm for extremely fast simulation and design of mechanical systems.

The successful candidate will work closely with several of the world's leading scientists in the fields of reconfigurable computing, numerical linear algebra, computational mechanics, and numerical optimization, and will have the opportunity not only to participate in an exciting entrepreneurial venture with considerable economic potential, but to make fundamental contributions to the automotive, aerospace and naval (ship design) industries.

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rafaelcns
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Hello Rafael,

Suggest to also post this in comp.arch.embedded.

Regards, Joerg

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Joerg

"The summer will culminate in a demonstration of the system, and potentially a journal paper. The majority of this work will be performed at the Air Force Research Laboratories [Wright -Patterson Base] in Dayton, Ohio."

The guy who wrote that must have gone to the same writing school as Dan Brown - "culminate", "the majority of the work".

It might be a great environment for electronics, but teh English isn't impressive.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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bill.sloman

I guess they consider teh work more important than teh English.

John

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John Larkin

You're missing the colloquialisms by reading the wording too literally. In the above context the word "summer" designates several components of the internship such as the season of the year, duration of the work assignment, as well as the work, accomplishments, and planned schedule of activity during the time period. The use of the word "culminate" then appropriately connotes the expectation and planning of a bottom-up sequence of accomplishments in a hierarchy, and that the work assignment has a specific and well-defined goal defined in terms of time and capability. The use of the word "majority" implies that the "team" is geographically distributed with the key players located at the AFRL site and that there will be required interaction with off-site players. I rate the manner of expression as succinct and adequately informative, and a nice way of inducing the confused to self-disqualify themselves from consideration.

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Fred Bloggs

The proposition that the project will end on a high note - "culminate" is basically "reach its highest point" - is an ambition, not a prediction.

All the author can talk about are the ambitions for the summer project; it is hoped that the project can be rounded off with a demonstration of a working system and the publication of a paper about it, but few summer projects run that smoothly.

"Majority" implies countable numbers, The bulk of the work may well be carried out at the Air Force Base, but how do you sort the work out into discrete lumps and weigh them to set up some kind of voting system?

More important, "majority" is an eight-letter, four-sylable word, while "bulk"is a four letter monosylable, as well as the word you'd expect to see in the context.

Sloppy word-chioce suggests sloppy thinking ....

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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bill.sloman

Ultimately everything is an ambition, but this company has experience with successful FPGA platform development for the hardware based algorithms, this makes it a plan. They're only looking for a damned dweeb type of person to hack the thing out- or else they're dumb as hell for relegating the assignment to the status of "internship"- which would not surprise me at all. The job description is in all likelihood overblown.

No it is not- the basic unit of work is the man-year and this makes the terminology perfectly reasonable.

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Fred Bloggs

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