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Computer Science, Visiting Professor job with NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY – NTNU | 312629 – Times Higher Education
Description
TheDivision of Scienceat NYU Abu Dhabi is searching for accomplished visiting faculty inComputer Scienceto educate the next generation of global thinkers.Multidisciplinary research and exceptional teaching in a highly diverse and inclusive campus community are hallmarks of the Universitysmission.
NYUAD values diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity; such principles are fundamental to the university's commitment to excellence. Our faculty are the engines that sustain our inclusive environment; NYUAD students come from more than 115 countries, with no single one nationality exceeding more than 15 percent of the total student population. Likewise, our faculty are highly diverse and community-minded: our modern campus is home to over 320 faculty who represent more than 45 different nationalities, all of whom bring a global perspective to their classrooms and research projects. Research is advanced by over 400 highly qualified research staff, who are likewise drawn from all over the world.
Applicants should have a relevant PhD and demonstrate an outstanding track record for their career stage in both research and teaching. The visiting position isfor one academic year and the expected teaching load is four courses with relatively small class sizes.
Successful candidates may receive some research funding for conference travel and/or minor equipment, and will also have access to internal competitive funds. Additional research support includes access tohigh-performance computing facilities.
There are many collaboration opportunitieswithin NYUAD, which already houses a number of interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Cyber Security, the Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES), Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, Center for Quantum and Topological Systems, as well as with faculty in NYU New Yorks Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Tandon School of Engineering.
About NYU Abu Dhabi
Established in partnership between New York University (NYU) and the emirate of Abu Dhabi, over the last decade, NYUAD has assembled a remarkable community of scholars, students, researchers, artists, inventors, and others who have contributed to the growth of the UAEs capital as a global hub of knowledge and culture while establishing a new model of higher education for todays complex world.
NYUAD is animated by inspiring and diverse faculty, students, and staff working together in an exciting and dynamic city. As an international center of excellence in teaching and research, our goal is to attract outstanding faculty who are leaders in their fields, encouraging them to create programs that draw outstanding students and provide an intellectually rich environment.
YUAD students come from more than 126 countries, with no single nationality exceeding more than 15 percent of the total student population. Likewise, our over 320 faculty members represent more than 45 nationalities and bring a global perspective to their classrooms and research projects. NYUAD is committed to building and strengthening a university-wide culture of inclusion, diversity, belonging and equity (IDBE), which is fundamental to the Universitys commitment to excellence. Visitour website for more information on NYUADs commitment to IDBEand how these values are fundamental to our mission.
Students are drawn from among the worlds best. They are bright, intellectually passionate, and committed to building a campus environment anchored in mutual respect, understanding, and care. The NYUAD undergraduate student body has garnered an impressive record of scholarships, graduate-school admissions, and other global honors. Graduate education is an area of growth for the University; the current graduate student population of over 100 students is expected to expand in the next decade as we develop new graduate programs.
Working for NYUAD
At NYUAD, we recognize that Abu Dhabi is more than where you work; its your home. In order for faculty to thrive, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. This starts with a generous relocation allowance; educational assistance for your dependents; access to health and wellness services; and more. NYUAD is committed to faculty success throughout the academic trajectory, providing support for ambitious and world-class research projects and innovative, interactive teaching approaches. Support for dual-career families is a priority.Visit our website for more information on benefits for you and your dependents.
Qualifications
This position requires a Ph.D. in Computer Scienceor a closely related area.
Application Instructions
To apply for this position, please submit the following items:
We will begin reviewing applications on December 15, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. Shortlisted candidates are expected to be invited for campus visits in Abu Dhabi early Spring 2023. We anticipate that successful candidates can start the appointment and relocate to Abu Dhabi in the academic year 2023-2024.
For questions about this position, please emailnyuad.science@nyu.edu.
If this sounds like you, apply now.
Join NYU Abu Dhabi, an exceptional place for exceptional people.
NYUAD values diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity; such principles are fundamental to the university's commitment to excellence. NYUAD is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly welcome applications from members of traditionally underrepresented groups, women, and UAE nationals. Multidisciplinary research and exceptional teaching in a highly diverse and inclusive campus community are hallmarks of the Universitys mission.
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TARS Work Accepted to ECCV, One of The Top Three Venues in Computer Vision – Clarkson University News
Nikolas Lamb, Dr. Sean Banerjee, Dr. Natasha Banerjee
Terascale All-sensing Research Studio (TARS) PhD student Nikolas Lamb will be presenting his accepted paper at the 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), one of the top three highest ranking venues for research in computer vision.
Lamb is advised on his research on repairing damaged objects by Dr. Natasha Banerjee and Dr. Sean Banerjee, Associate Professors in the Department of Computer Science and co-directors of TARS. Lambs paper will be published in the proceedings of the conference. Lambs paper is the first from Clarkson to be published at ECCV, a venue dominated by researchers from large technology companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta/Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, and top-tier research institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, Cambridge, and Max Planck Institute to name a few.
Given the rapidity with which knowledge changes in computer science, conferences are the standard for immediate information dissemination, and as such are peer-reviewed and held to similar standing as journals in other fields. ECCV is globally known as one of the three highest-ranking peer-reviewed venues in computer vision, and is held once every two years, making it one of the toughest venues for computer vision to be published in.
As noted onGoogle Scholar, ECCV has an h5-index of 186 and ranks third among computer vision conferences in h5-index, the other two being Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). The conference also demonstrates the ubiquitous scientific impact of computer vision, in that it is currently the40thranked publication venue (conference and/or journal) overall in h5-index, and15thin Engineering & Computer Science. Lamb is one of few ECCV attendees who have been awarded a Student Grant by ECCV that covers his registration and travel to the conference from October 23-27, 2022.
In July 2022, Lamb presented MendNet, a then state-of-the-art method to repair damaged objects at the Symposium on Geometry Processing by using deep neural networks to represent the structure of damaged, complete, and repaired objects. Just a few months later, Lambs ECCV paper has contributed a new algorithm, DeepMend, that overcomes the limitations of his prior work, by tying a mathematical representation of occupancy of damaged and repaired objects to complete objects and the fracture surface, enabling a compact representation of shape via deep networks and establishing a new state-of-the-art.
Lambs rapid and even now ongoing release of new state-of-the-art algorithms is in line with the accelerated rate of research in computer science. As Alexei Efros, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Prize in Computing and Computer Science Professor at the University of California, Berkeley,saysThe half-life of knowledge in computer science is quite short. In machine learning, it is about three months.
Lambs research brings repair of damaged objects within the hands of the average consumer, enabling us to move closer to sustainable use of items. It also bridges the gap between research in material science and computer science by tying artificial intelligence to the definition of damaged object geometry, enabling in-the-wild repair. By using deep learning to hypothesize what a repair part should look like, Lambs work also contributes to the restoration of objects of cultural heritage and items of personal significance, for instance, a precious piece of pottery.
TARS, of which Lamb is a member, conducts research on making next-generation artificial intelligence and robotic systems human-aware. Research at TARS spans fields such as computer vision, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, robotics, virtual reality, and computational fabrication. TARS supports the research of 15 graduate students and nearly 20 undergraduate students every semester. TARS has one of the largest high-performance computing facilities at Clarkson, with 275,000+ CUDA cores and 4,800+ Tensor cores spread over 50+ GPUs, and 1 petabyte of (nearly full!) storage. TARS houses the Gazebo, a massively dense multi-viewpoint multi-modal markerless motion capture facility for imaging multi-person interactions containing 192 226FPS high-speed cameras, 16 Microsoft Azure Kinect RGB-D sensors, 12 Sierra Olympic Viento-G thermal cameras, and 16 surface electromyography (sEMG) sensors, and the Cube, a single- and two-person 3D imaging facility containing 4 high-speed cameras, 4 RGB-D sensors, and 5 thermal cameras. The team thanks the Office of Information Technology for providing access to the ACRES GPU node with 4 V100s containing 20,480 CUDA cores and 2,560 Tensor cores.
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What Is Green Computing? – Nvidia
Everyone wants green computing.
Mobile users demand maximum performance and battery life. Businesses and governments increasingly require systems that are powerful yet environmentally friendly. And cloud services must respond to global demands without making the grid stutter.
For these reasons and more, green computing has evolved rapidly over the past three decades, and its here to stay.
Green computing, or sustainable computing, is the practice of maximizing energy efficiency and minimizing environmental impact in the ways computer chips, systems and software are designed and used.
Also called green information technology, green IT or sustainable IT, green computing spans concerns across the supply chain, from the raw materials used to make computers to how systems get recycled.
In their working lives, green computers must deliver the most work for the least energy, typically measured by performance per watt.
Green computing is a significant tool to combat climate change, the existential threat of our time.
Global temperatures have risen about 1.2C over the last century. As a result, ice caps are melting, causing sea levels to rise about 20 centimeters and increasing the number and severity of extreme weather events.
The rising use of electricity is one of the causes of global warming. Data centers represent a small fraction of total electricity use, about 1% or 200 terawatt-hours per year, but theyre a growing factor that demands attention.
Powerful, energy-efficient computers are part of the solution. Theyre advancing science and our quality of life, including the ways we understand and respond to climate change.
Engineers know green computing is a holistic discipline.
Energy efficiency is a full-stack issue, from the software down to the chips, said Sachin Idgunji, co-chair of the power working group for the industrys MLPerf AI benchmark and a distinguished engineer working on performance analysis at NVIDIA.
For example, in one analysis he found NVIDIA DGX A100 systems delivered a nearly 5x improvement in energy efficiency in scale-out AI training benchmarks compared to the prior generation.
My primary role is analyzing and improving energy efficiency of AI applications at everything from the GPU and the system node to the full data center scale, he said.
Idgunjis work is a job description for a growing cadre of engineers building products from smartphones to supercomputers.
Green computing hit the public spotlight in 1992, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency launched Energy Star, a program for identifying consumer electronics that met standards in energy efficiency.
A 2017 report found nearly 100 government and industry programs across 22 countries promoting what it called green ICTs, sustainable information and communication technologies.
One such organization, the Green Electronics Council, provides the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, a registry of systems and their energy-efficiency levels. The council claims its saved nearly 400 million megawatt-hours of electricity through use of 1.5 billion green products its recommended to date.
Work on green computing continues across the industry at every level.
For example, some large data centers use liquid-cooling while others locate data centers where they can use cool ambient air. Schneider Electric recently released a whitepaper recommending 23 metrics for determining the sustainability level of data centers.
Wu Feng, a computer science professor at Virginia Tech, built a career pushing the limits of green computing. It started out of necessity while he was working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A computer cluster for open science research he maintained in an external warehouse had twice as many failures in summers versus winters. So, he built a lower-power system that wouldnt generate as much heat.
He demoed the system, dubbed Green Destiny, at the Supercomputing conference in 2001. Covered by the BBC, CNN and the New York Times, among others, it sparked years of talks and debates in the HPC community about the potential reliability as well as efficiency of green computing.
Interest rose as supercomputers and data centers grew, pushing their boundaries in power consumption. In November 2007, after working with some 30 HPC luminaries and gathering community feedback, Feng launched the first Green500 List, the industrys benchmark for energy-efficient supercomputing.
The Green500 became a rallying point for a community that needed to reign in power consumption while taking performance to new heights.
Energy efficiency increased exponentially, flops per watt doubled about every year and a half for the greenest supercomputer at the top of the list, said Feng.
By some measures, the results showed the energy efficiency of the worlds greenest systems increased two orders of magnitude in the last 14 years.
Feng attributes the gains mainly to the use of accelerators such as GPUs, now common among the worlds fastest systems.
Accelerators added the capability to execute code in a massively parallel way without a lot of overhead they let us run blazingly fast, he said.
He cited two generations of the Tsubame supercomputers in Japan as early examples. They used NVIDIA Kepler and Pascal architecture GPUs to lead the Green500 list in 2014 and 2017, part of a procession of GPU-accelerated systems on the list.
Accelerators have had a huge impact throughout the list, said Feng, who will receive an award for his green supercomputing work at the Supercomputing event in November.
Notably, NVIDIA was fantastic in its engagement and support of the Green500 by ensuring its energy-efficiency numbers were reported, thus helping energy efficiency become a first-class citizen in how supercomputers are designed today, he added.
Today, GPUs and data processing units (DPUs) are bringing greater energy efficiency to AI and networking tasks, as well as HPC jobs like simulations run on supercomputers and enterprise data centers.
AI, the most powerful technology of our time, will become a part of every business. McKinsey & Co. estimates AI will add a staggering $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030 as deployments grow.
NVIDIA estimates data centers could save a whopping 19 terawatt-hours of electricity a year if all AI, HPC and networking offloads were run on GPU and DPU accelerators (see the charts below). Thats the equivalent of the energy consumption of 2.9 million passenger cars driven for a year.
Its an eye-popping measure of the potential for energy efficiency with accelerated computing.
Because AI represents a growing part of enterprise workloads, the MLPerf industry benchmarks for AI have been measuring performance per watt on submissions for data center and edge inference since February 2021.
The next frontier for us is to measure energy efficiency for AI on larger distributed systems, for HPC workloads and for AI training its similar to the Green500 work, said Idgunji, whose power group at MLPerf includes members from six other chip and systems companies.
The public results motivate participants to make significant improvements with each product generation. They also help engineers and developers understand ways to balance performance and efficiency across the major AI workloads that MLPerf tests.
Software optimizations are a big part of work because they can lead to large impacts in energy efficiency, and if your system is energy efficient, its more reliable, too, Idgunji said.
In PCs and laptops, weve been investing in efficiency for a long time because its the right thing to do, said Narayan Kulshrestha, a GPU power architect at NVIDIA whos been working in the field nearly two decades.
For example, Dynamic Boost 2.0 uses deep learning to automatically direct power to a CPU, a GPU or a GPUs memory to increase system efficiency. In addition, NVIDIA created a system-level design for laptops, called Max-Q, to optimize and balance energy efficiency and performance.
When a user replaces a system, the standard practice in green computing is that the old system gets broken down and recycled. But Matt Hull sees better possibilities.
Our vision is a cyclical economy that enables everyone with AI at a variety of price points, said Hull, the vice president of sales for data center AI products at NVIDIA.
So he aims to find the system a new home with users in developing countries who find it useful and affordable. Its a work in progress seeking the right partner and writing a new chapter in an existing lifecycle management process.
Energy-efficient computers are among the sharpest tools fighting climate change.
Scientists in government labs and universities have long used GPUs to model climate scenarios and predict weather patterns. Recent advances in AI, driven by NVIDIA GPUs, can now help model weather forecasting 100,000x quicker than traditional models. Watch the following video for details:
In an effort to accelerate climate science, NVIDIA announced plans to build Earth-2, an AI supercomputer dedicated to predicting the impacts of climate change. It will use NVIDIA Omniverse, a 3D design collaboration and simulation platform, to build a digital twin of Earth so scientists can model climates in ultra-high resolution.
In addition, NVIDIA is working with the United Nations Satellite Centre to accelerate climate-disaster management and train data scientists across the globe in using AI to improve flood detection.
Meanwhile, utilities are embracing machine learning to move toward a green, resilient and smart grid. Power plants are using digital twins to predict costly maintenance and model new energy sources, such as fusion-reactor designs.
Feng sees the core technology behind green computing moving forward on multiple fronts.
In the short term, hes working on whats called energy proportionality, that is, ways to make sure systems get peak power when they need peak performance and scale gracefully down to zero power as they slow to an idle, like a modern car engine that slows its RPMs and then shuts down at a red light.
Long term, hes exploring ways to minimize data movement inside and between computer chips to reduce their energy consumption. And hes among many researchers studying the promise of quantum computing to deliver new kinds of acceleration.
Its all part of the ongoing work of green computing, delivering ever more performance at ever greater efficiency.
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The Power of Hands-On Data Science | CSUF News – CSUF News
Computer science major James Owens II wanted to learn more about data science and how to use machine learning and data visualization to solve real-world problems.
Using data science tools, Owens studied the role of hippocampus, a complex brain structure embedded deep into the temporal lobe that plays a major role in learning and memory. This research is important so data scientists can intrinsically understand the brain, specifically how hippocampus aids in organizing memories.
With the information we obtained from our research, we seek to fully understand how the human brain can remember how, when and where events happened, he said. Once we fully understand how the parts of the brain organize memories, we can hopefully find a solution to illnesses such as Alzheimers disease or dementia in the long-term.
As a fellow in the SoCal Data Science Program, a collaboration between Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine and Cypress College launched earlier this year, Owens had the opportunity to learn all about this interdisciplinary, data-focused field through hands-on research.
Owens worked on the project with CSUF research adviser Sam Behseta, professor of mathematics, and UC Irvine researchers to develop statistical models to understand underlying neural mechanisms of memory.
Behseta, director of CSUFs Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics and the universitys 2022 Outstanding Professor, and Jessica Jaynes, associate professor of mathematics, are leading the CSUF effort and mentoring students selected for the program.
Funded by a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant, the SoCal Data Science Program aims to recruit, train and dispatch a diverse workforce of STEM and data science majors.
Through this collaborative effort, we are providing opportunities for underrepresented students in data science early on in their academic career, Behseta said. Were equipping undergraduate students with the required skills to solve real-life problems by creating hands-on research and practical projects.
The program also is preparing students for a successful career path through mentoring and direct engagement with academic and non-academic institutions.
It is our passion to provide opportunities for our students to learn the necessary skills for the workforce, Jaynes said. As the amount of data produced continues to increase exponentially, so does the demand for a skilled workforce trained with the necessary skills to understand scientific questions related to data, data management, data visualization and summarization, and the ability to communicate with data.
This first class of 31 fellows from the three institutions, including 20 fellows from CSUF is diverse, with the majority from underrepresented backgrounds, including Hispanic, Black, Filipino and Vietnamese ethnicities.
Program fellows were selected from over 200 applicants, with half of the applicants from CSUF. The goal is to recruit a total of 120 students over the three-year program.
Owens noted that its important to train diverse data scientists who are from varied backgrounds and disciplines: Diversity promotes new and better innovations and different perspectives from around the world.
The fellows participate in winter and spring coursework related to data science. The CSUF students, who are biological science, chemistry, computer science and mathematics majors, also enroll in the pilot course, Foundations of Data Science, taught by both Jaynes and Behseta.
In this course, students learn critical skills for data analysis and problem-solving, noted Jaynes.
In the summer, students attended a one-week bootcamp and participated in a six-week data science research project, led by faculty from each of the institutions.
Students worked alongside data science researchers and industry partners, such as Childrens Health of Orange County-CHOC, on six different research projects to address real issues in daily life.
In addition to Owens project, other research included the effects of COVID-19 in pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis, how diet affects cancer within the blood and bone marrow and the negative impact of smartphones on infant language development.
The program culminated with a research symposium in August at UCI, where fellows presented their projects through short talks and poster presentations to more than 100 attendees.
The ultimate highlight of the program was watching the students share all of their hard work with their families and friends at the research symposium, Jaynes said.
Owens, who is considering a career as a data scientist, was introduced to statistical modeling techniques, brushed up on communication, analysis and research presentation skills, and found a like-minded community of peers.
What fascinated me about data science is that I can use my computer science skills to solve real-world problems by using different algorithms and problem-solving techniques that Ive learned, he said.
Behseta and Jaynes plan to build on this years successes and continue developing and expanding the curriculum to create a community of data science learners.
For more information about the SoCal Data Science Program, visit the website. To apply for the 2022-23 program, visit here: https://bit.ly/SoCalDataScience22; or contact Sam Behseta at sbehseta@fullerton.edu; or Jessica Jaynes at jjaynes@fullerton.edu.
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Web Developer Responsibilities, Skills, and Salary – Spiceworks News and Insights
A web developer is defined as a technical professional responsible for building applications and websites to be hosted on the internet, typically working in close collaboration with a graphic designer or product manager to translate programming logic and design ideas into web-compatible code. This article explains the roles and responsibilities of web developers, the skills they require, and salary expectations in 2022.
A web developer is a technical professional responsible for building applications and websites hosted on the internet, typically working in close collaboration with a graphic designer or product manager to translate programming logic and design ideas into web-compatible code.
A web developer is an expert in designing and developing websites. They guarantee that websites satisfy users expectations by ensuring they are aesthetically pleasing, operate without hiccups, and provide quick entry points with no loading difficulties or error messages.
A web developer is accountable for a company websites code, design, and layout. Due to the roles emphasis on user experience and functionality, visual design and programming skills (like COBOL), are required. After a website has been developed, a web developer will typically help with its upkeep and maintenance.
The popularity of digital marketing is now increasing, and many businesses plan to offer their goods and services online. Nevertheless, not all companies have achieved their digital marketing objectives. A site with a design that is five years woefully out of date will not attract the attention of modern online users.
Serious players are aware of this, so they often update their websites to provide the most recent experience. The strong interest among small/mid-sized entrepreneurs in implementing digital sites and the continual need to modernize outdated technology are propelling the web development market to new heights.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that demands for web developers will increase by 8% between 2019 and 2029, which is faster than the average for all occupations.
Full-stack web developer, front-end web developer, and back-end web developer are some of the critical roles to look at on this path:
Regardless of the web developer job description (front-end, back-end, or full-stack), prospective developers have two key career options. Depending on your preferences, you may apply for compensated positions in organizations or operate as an independent web developer.
Online development experts with extensive experience typically design, create and optimize web apps and websites from end to end. They have extensive knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) best practices, web development programming languages, and extensive experience. Typically, senior web developers oversee teams composed of younger engineers.
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Typically, a web developer is tasked with the following:
1. Creating the website through programming (and not no-code tools)
The primary professional objective of a web developer is to write code to make a website. They must employ various programming techniques and tools to deliver high-quality results. In addition, they must conform to contemporary web development standards and ethics. The developer must maintain a coding environment that is reusable, understandable, and simple to modify or debug. Additionally, they must often update the program to retain a flexible coding framework.
2. Testing the website before deployment and then at regular intervals
Developers must routinely examine their websites to detect flaws early. Before publishing the program, they must review the code for potential bugs. Thorough testing will avoid future issues. To guarantee that the standards are completed, they must also get continuous input from clients and consumers.
3. Debugging the website code
Bugs make a website ineffective when the coding cannot offer website visitors functionality. After debugging, a web developer optimizes the code to improve performance. Regular testing and validation of the code guarantee that the code functions as intended and that a website application continues to be operational. The capacity to detect, evaluate, and eliminate mistakes may facilitate a positive user experience and promote business growth.
4. Maintaining the website and supporting the organization/client on website updates
To keep customers happy, a site must respond as quickly as feasible. If an application opens slowly, customers will be less likely to use it again. Therefore, site developers must guarantee that all functions are operational. This position involves spreading updates to maintain the websites functionality. They must ensure that all security protocols are in place and promptly detect anomalies.
5. Collaborating with designers to understand and execute their vision
Web developers collaborate with creative specialists and designers to extract the intended visual outcomes for a website. This part of web development is necessary for creating a responsive product. The web developer interacts with the designers to effectively guarantee the implementation of key features and functionalities. The objective is to develop a consistent theme throughout all web pages.
The primary area of operations for the designer is curating the sites graphics and branding. However, the web developer executes the coding necessary for the visual components to function. Therefore, they must work successfully and transparently, each feeding off the others ideas.
6. Connecting the database and maintaining integrations
Because almost all software manipulates large amounts of data, database management is essential. Offline use of the program necessitates data synchronization between internal memory and remote databases. This is why mobile developers must have database knowledge. SQLite is crucial for mobile coding because it enables data to be stored forever.
7. Ensuring responsive design
A responsive website seamlessly adapts to various screen sizes, including those of mobile phones, tablets, and desktop computers. This technique utilizes a combination of flexible grids and layouts, media, and intelligent code to guarantee that web pages scale appropriately to accommodate various screen sizes.
Web pages might seem broken if their design is not responsive, impacting the websites number of visits. Creating a responsive site design may play a pivotal role in web development, as it can enhance the user experience, thereby increasing conversions.
In addition to these essential duties, additional responsibilities may include:
In short, web developers are responsible for creating and maintaining websites. Typically, they will spend their time developing code languages like HTML5, which is used by many mobile devices and maintaining the sites technical elements, such as its ability to manage traffic without crashing.
A web developer is responsible for the design and functionality of websites. They interact with the web and visual designers, analyze website traffic, handle website issues, and upgrade websites as required. The everyday activities of web developers vary by industry, job, and assignment. Frequently, developers must communicate with customers, arrange online layouts, write code to allow site functionality, and create or add verbal or graphic content to the code framework.
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A remarkable portfolio and good knowledge of HTML will set you up for surefire success as a web developer. However, there are other qualities that will advance your career and drive success in the area of web development:
Coding is one of the most important hard skills required of a web developer, and these individuals must be proficient in several of the programming languages listed below:
In addition, web developers must show proficiency in frameworks such as ASP.NET and Angular.js. ASP.NET is an open-source framework that offers web developers the tools and resources necessary to create dynamic websites, apps, and services. Even though there are other online application architectures, web developers often choose ASP.NET as the industry standard.
Similar to ASP.NET is the fully accessible, industry-standard application framework Angular.js. Google and its user community manage this program. Due to its JavaScript base, web developers often use Angular.js to modify a sites entire front end.
Programming languages function according to rules and definitions. If you are inherently adept at solving issues rationally, you will learn these languages considerably faster. As you see them in operation, you will acquire an aptitude for deconstructing statements into their fundamental components and anticipating their logical results. Web developers who must keep track of various jobs, initiatives, timelines, costs, and workflow planning will benefit significantly from logically-based organizational techniques.
Developers are accountable for developing the most elegant end-user solution. As you undertake more complicated tasks, youll discover that there is seldom a single solution to the issue: one may have numerous pathways available, and it requires a sense of creativity to envision how each would function. Further, a robust aesthetic sense is helpful when collaborating with design personnel as it helps visualize what the end web product will look like.
As a result, web developers must stay abreast of any significant new programming languages, web development software, and industry trends. Even coding professionals with extensive degrees in computer science will need ongoing skill development to remain competitive. In reality, there is nearly always a link between learning capacities and technical proficiency, which results in higher pay. Success as a developer does necessitate a dedication to lifelong learning, which is advantageous for the vast majority of workers in the area.
A web developer may utilize a version control system to monitor, manage, and modify code shifts/alterations. Git is an instance of a code version control mechanism that enables rapid mistake detection and correction. The application allows you to record the modifications youve performed on the code so you may examine it before making any modifications. This is essential for full-stack web developers who operate under tight deadlines.
Many customers prefer that the independent web developers they employ understand the fundamentals of SEO. This is because a website with efficient SEO scores higher in search engine results, drawing more visitors. SEO is a crucial skill for web developers since customers typically want to enhance their websites traffic.
Even the tiniest misspelling might result in a 404. Programmers are taught to reread their code numerous times to check for flaws and find efficiency. It requires patience, intense concentration, and the ability to see ones work objectively.
Communication is another area of soft skill development for this role. Whether you are a member of a large engineering department or a solo, you will need to interact with various stakeholders during the project. One must remain receptive to suggestions from designers, clients, and other team members and communicate through potential barriers. Promoting open communication channels will produce a superior final product and help you grow as a developer.
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The average yearly salary for web developers in the United States is $104,080, according to statistics from Glassdoor (as of September 15, 2022). Numerous variables, including experience, region, living costs, and expertise levels, may affect earnings. Typically, novice web developers earn less than seasoned experts, but those with more certificates or training make more.
Professional Certifications and an associates degree allow you to develop your programming skills and demonstrate your experience. A bachelors degree is not required for web developers. However, individuals with a postsecondary degree often make much better earnings. In addition, certain businesses may seek web developers with degrees in disciplines like computer science or engineering.
Web developers with bachelors degrees may potentially work in management positions and earn extra revenue. According to the BLS, computer science and information system administrators earn a median annual income of $159,010 despite commencing their careers as web developers. Apart from educational background, seniority is another crucial factor driving web developer salaries. Glassdoor estimates the following average total compensation for three primary levels of expertise::
As practically every sector requires a digital presence for profitability, web developers may find work in various areas. However, certain businesses tend to employ more web developers than others, and pay rates might vary by industry. Computer systems design, unified communications, publishing, administration, science and technology consulting services, branding, advertising, and public relations are the most common areas for employment.
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Web development is now among the key pillars of doing business. Every company needs a website to establish its online presence, some (like e-commerce) conduct their business on the web, and others provide essential services via web apps, such as Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. Therefore, demand for web developers will continue to be high in the next few years, and the rise of new systems like Web3 will make highly skilled web developers more coveted than ever before.
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Dr. Liu and Dr. Suchow appointed as Presidential Fellows The Stute – The Stute
At Stevens, one of the most prestigious honors a young professor can achieve is to be a Presidential Fellow. A Presidential Fellow recognizes a staff member at Stevens and the achievements of their research and potential contributions to the institution in the future. This year, President Farvardin and Provost Qu announced that Dr. Hang Liu, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science, and Dr. Jordan Suchow, Assistant Professor in the School of Business, were appointed as Presidential Fellows.
Dr. Liu earned a B.E. in Software Engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 2011 and went on to his Ph.D. from George Washington University in High-Performance Computing in 2017. He started at Stevens in 2019, and his work focuses primarily on data science, machine learning, and cybersecurity. In his time here at Stevens, Dr. Liu has received three National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards totaling over $1.1 million, including the NSF CAREER award. Recently, he won the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on High-Performance Computing (IEEE CS TCHPC) Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing 2022. Dr. Liu also won the Stevens Early Career Award for Research Excellence as a 2022 recipient.
Dr. Suchow earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Brandeis University in 2009, his Ph.D. from Harvard University for Cognitive Psychology in 2014, and completed his postdoc at the University of Southern California, Berkeley. Dr. Suchow started at Stevens in 2019, leading much research in artificial intelligence due to his background in cognitive studies and computer science. His work focuses on developing computational models regarding group and individualistic thinking, learning, and decision-making. In a recent project funded by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Dr. Suchow developed technologies that help in experimental and social science data at scaled levels. Since his time here at Stevens, he has been awarded a patent and has had articles published or accepted by 18 papers, most of which are high-impact publications.
Being a Presidential Fellow is a keystone moment in a professors career. According to Dr. Liu, It means a great recognition to my group, as well as my teaching to our students and service to the university and my community. It cheers my students upthey knew that their advisor got this award, in part, because of their hard work. Beyond being recognized for outstanding work and research, the Presidential Fellowship also offers a new perspective on the future of their work. Dr. Liu explains that winning the award means, I will have to stay closer to my inner peace such that I can think deeper and produce better research, teaching and service.
Being a Presidential Fellow is a great honor. Dr. Suchow and Dr. Liu received this recognition because of their incredible work and embodiment of Stevens. Being at the forefront of their fields, both recipients are sure to continue their remarkable research to better Stevens and the greater society. For more information, please see the announcement from President Farvardin.
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Tech pros from Microsoft, Amazon, more share career paths with students | University of Hawaii System News – University of Hawaii
More than 150 University of Hawaii at Mnoa students from a variety of majors took advantage of a rare opportunity to meet one-on-one with technology industry professionals from organizations such as Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn and Activision Blizzard, to learn about technology career opportunities.
The event on October 11, at Kuykendall Hall began with an introduction of more than 20 professionals, which included software engineers, company founders, business leaders and cybersecurity experts, followed by a one-hour mixer where students were able to chat face-to-face with the speakers.
The event was hosted by the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) in UH Mnoas Shidler College of Business, Association for Computing Machinery at UH Mnoa, ThriveHI and Builders VC.
Amanda Nitta is a UH Mnoa senior majoring in computer science and data science, and vice president and chief of operations for the Association for Computing Machinery at UH Mnoa. Nitta was one of the events student organizers and gained knowledge about how to apply data science and management in a future career.
This is a great opportunity for these students because of the fact that it gives exposure to what they are able to do, and be able to apply what they learned and see that they are not restricted to one thing such as software engineering, Nitta said. They have so many other capabilities within them to do interdisciplinary work and have different mindsets going into the workforce.
Kanai Gooding is a computer science student and president of the Association for Computing Machinery at UH Mnoa. Gooding said many of the tech professionals featured at the event are remote workers for companies based on the continental U.S. He said there is a disparity between salaries offered by those companies and salaries offered by companies based in Hawaii. Goodings goal for the event was to begin a dialogue to take steps forward so Hawaii-based companies can match the salaries of their continental U.S.-based counterparts.
This is just one of the many aspects that we are trying to attack the problem with, Gooding said. One of our big asks for the professionals here was, Hey, were going to have the students ask you your salary. Please be ok with us asking and you answering. Hopefully that spreads loudly across the community.
Kevin Shin, a senior software engineer at LinkedIn, shared his manao (thoughts and perspectives) with UH Mnoas current students. Shin graduated from UH Mnoa 2014 with a degree in mechanical engineering, before pursuing a graduate degree at Stanford University.
His goal for the event was to let the students know that there is a path to tech and people from Hawaii can make it. There are a bunch out here doing it.
Students at the University of Hawaii are just as capable of taking on tech careers, including tech-centered entrepreneurship, as their mainland counterparts. Because of Hawaiis distance from major technological hubs, however, local students may be learning about these careers from the internet or other secondhand sources, PACE Executive Director Sandra Fujiyama said. PACE, along with ThriveHI, ACM@Mnoa and Builders VC, recognized the need to close that gap and connect students directly to people who know what it is to work in tech today.
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SDSC’s Chief Data Science Officer Elected to IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors – HPCwire
Oct. 12, 2022 The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers Computer Society (IEEE CS) recently announced that Ilkay Altinta, chief data science officer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego, has been elected as an IEEE CS 2023 Board of Governors member for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2023.
The IEEE CS Board is responsible for providing policy-level guidance to all the organizational entities with the society. The board sets directions and strategy for the society and reviews the performance of the program boards and other committees to assure compliance with its policy directions.
The Board of Governors sets the direction and determines the strategy for the Computer Society and provides guidance at the policy level to all of its organizational entities, said SDSC Director Frank Wrthwein. Congratulations to Ilkayit is a significant achievement to be elected to such a leadership position by ones peers.
Altinta is no stranger to leadership as she directs three successful entities at UC San Diego: SDSCs Cyberinfrastructure and Convergence Research and Education Division, Workflows for Data Science (WorDS) Center of Excellence, and the WIFIRE Lab. She is also faculty co-director for UC San Diegos Master of Advanced Study in Data Science and Engineering and a fellow with the Halcolu Data Science Institute.
The latest strategic plan of IEEE includes providing value to the whole community, which comes at a time when we have complex societal problems to solve and less than ideal workable solutions, Altinta said. IEEE Computer Society has unrealized potential to push progress forward through integration of technology and inclusion through dialogue and collaboration throughout the research and education cycle. Im excited to apply my experience in translational programs, experiential education and convergence research to foster programs toward long-term, trusted partnerships with underrepresented and cross-sector communities, and to contribute to the discussion on an inclusive approach to identify, prioritize and co-create solutions, and diversify the pipeline of students and researchers in ways that expands our impact.
In addition to Altinta, the international Board of Governors includes: Nils Aschenbruck (Universitt Osnabrck), Mike Hinchey (University of Limerick), Joaquim Jorge (University of Lisbon), Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii) and Carolyn McGregor (Ontario Tech University).
The IEEE Computer Society is the worlds home for computer science, engineering and technology. A global leader in providing access to computer science research, analysis and information, the IEEE Computer Society offers a comprehensive array of unmatched products, services and opportunities for individuals at all stages of their professional careers. Known as the premier organization that empowers the people who drive technology, the IEEE CS offers international conferences, peer-reviewed publications, a unique digital library and training programs. Visit computer.org for more information.
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Computer Science job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 312414 – Times Higher Education
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 2 within UCD School of Computer Science.
UCD is a European leader in Data Analytics and Connected Health. Nationally we host flagship collaborative programmes under Science Foundation Ireland's Research Centres programmes and Enterprise Ireland/IDA's Technology Centre programme. We work with industry partners to develop projects within these programmes and under separate funding streams from the European Commission, Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Research Council, the Health Research Board and others.
We are looking to recruit one Post-Doctoral Research Fellows to start in January 2023 on research projects, funded by Industrial Partners and the European Commission.
The projects are in the general area of Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Recommender Systems. This is a fixed term part-time position until the end of December 2023 with potential to be renewed for another year. The projects may require close collaboration with industry partners. Purpose The primary purpose of the role is to assist on the design and development of distributed machine learning and recommender system models, as well as to contribute to the development of tools for machine-learning based data processing and data analytics in various domains, such as energy, environment, health and fitness. It is expected that the successful candidate will develop new or advanced research artefacts associated with various research projects and will publish in top level peer-reviewed academic venues.
This is a research focused role, where the successful candidate will conduct a specified programme of research supported by research training and development under the supervision and direction of a Principal Investigator.
In this role, there will be an opportunity to further develop research skills and competencies and to develop skills in research-led teaching. This includes the processes of publication in peer-reviewed academic publications, the development of funding proposals and the mentorship of graduate students. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a team of world-class experts in Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Recommender Systems in ambitious research and development projects. The candidate will contribute to the success of the projects and to the improvement of the team's skills and expertise.
Salary range: 46,906 - 51,035 per annum pro-rata [NB: Equal to 23,452 - 25,517 per annum for a part-time / half-time (0.5fte) post]
Appointment on the above range will be dependent upon qualifications and experience.
Closing date: 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on 26th October 2022.
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications. UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned. Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should beobtained from the Work at UCD website: https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/.
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Virginia Tech and Northern Virginia Community College: Meeting the region’s IT needs by ‘degrees’ – Inside NoVA
Whether its for a technical certification, a doctorate in a given field or a degree somewhere in between, Northern Virginia boasts a wealth of opportunities for residents to become educated about the digital world.
Area institutions, including Virginia Tech and Northern Virginia Community College, offer a host of classes and educational programs to help students prepare to land one of the regions myriad technology jobs.
The local jewel in Virginia Techs technical crown is still under construction. Thats the universitys Innovation Campus, part of the states successful effort to attract Amazons HQ2. The $1 billion, 1 million-square-foot campus in Alexandria will offer graduate education in computer science and computer engineering, and Tech officials hope it will lead to the creation of an East Coast version of Californias Silicon Valley, said Lance Collins, vice president and executive director of the campus.
The Innovation Campus will offer advanced degrees in computer science and computer engineering, including masters of engineering, masters of science and doctorate degrees in each subject. At build-out, it will have about 750 masters of engineering and 200 doctoral students and award 550 masters degrees and 50 doctorates annually.
Were not talking about a boutique operation here, Collins said.
The Innovation Campus isnt scheduled to open until 2024, but some students are already taking courses at the universitys Falls Church location. Tech chose the educational programs for the campus that it did because they produce the degrees for which there is the biggest need, Collins said.
The masters of engineering degree programs are centered around projects sponsored by an external organization, such as a business, government agency or nonprofit, which will provide learning opportunities for both technical and professional skills. This setup will create the environment that students would see in their careers while providing them coaching from real-world workers. Some of the projects likely will morph into new companies, Collins said.
Working in a project world, it just brings out the best in everybody, including the students, Collins said.
Twelve Virginia Tech faculty members in computer science and computer engineering have already transferred to the Innovation Campus, and more educators are on the way. At build-out in 2028-29, the faculty should total 50 members.
We really want the campus to be a robust place, Collins said. And Tech officials have the goal of fostering the most diverse graduate technology program in the nation.
The mission of shepherding such a campus into existence is one Collins has accomplished before. He joined Virginia Tech in 2020 from Cornell University, where he was the dean of engineering for a decade and part of a team that successfully bid to partner with New York City to build Cornell Tech, which opened its Roosevelt Island campus in Manhattan in 2017.
As with the Innovation Campus, Northern Virginia Community College tries to make sure its offering the courses that businesses want prospective employees to complete, said Steve Partridge, the colleges vice president of strategy, research and workforce innovation. It does this by examining labor market data and targeting the subjects that will prepare students to qualify for not just a few open jobs but for thousands of openings.
The college also provides career advising and many other resources through a Business Engagement Center that helps students find out where the jobs are, what they pay and what future positions they lead to. To accomplish this, NOVA engages industry leaders and uses labor market intelligence data. For example, Partridge said the college is hearing a lot lately about data analytics, and that businesses are hiring not just for data center employees but for data center managers. Software development is still a growing field, as well, he said.
If a business or businesses are looking for job candidates with a specific technical certification, the college can mobilize quickly to offer short-term credentialing programs to fulfill that need. NOVA is one of the top community-college grantors of technical credentials in the country, Partridge said.
Credential programs can be launched more quickly than degree programs, he said. Those types of programs primarily aid two types of students: working adults who want to add another skill or workers who are switching careers. The college can decide whether a credential program is appropriate by asking a given business: What do you actually want this person to do? Is a degree really necessary?
Even with these efforts, some jobs continue to go unfilled, prompting Partridge to say that knowing IT is right up there with the necessary skills of writing, reading and arithmetic in the old axiom. The educator also pointed out that employees tend to be more loyal to companies that invest in them and to work longer for those businesses.
NOVA also is a national leader in granting associate degrees in technical fields, offering programs in computer science, cloud computing, cyber security, information technology and engineering technology, said Chad Knights, vice president of information and engineering technologies and college computing.
These workforce-based programs match the needs of our business community, said Knights, who oversees all technology degree programs.
As with credentials, he said the college analyzes what the regional business needs are and aims to make sure its degrees match them. For instance, the college has worked with Amazon Web Services and the Marine Corps on topics leading to degree offerings. In this way, he said, the college is responsive to both student needs and the needs of the business community.
Some faculty hail from the industry, as well, so they know about the latest trends among businesses.
To propel innovation, in November 2021, NOVA and the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business celebrated the newly-formed Business Information Technology-Cybersecurity Management and Analytics (BIT-Cyber) program. The partnership provides a pathway for students to earn a bachelors degree in Business Information Technology with the option to focus on Cybersecurity Management and Analytics (BIT-Cyber). This is the first Virginia Tech bachelors degree available to students outside of its Blacksburg campus.
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