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From: mjcg%cam.sri.com@Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM (Mike Gordon)
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Subject: Positions available at Cambridge



               Research Opportunities at Cambridge
               ====================================


It is expected that there will be a couple of research positions
available at Cambridge in the Hardware Verification Group starting
from about 1 October 1990.

One position will be to work on the HOL-ELLA project. This is a junior
predoctoral position intended for a recent graduate. It would suit
someone who is planning to do PhD research in hardware verification,
but would like a year working in the area first.  The HOL-ELLA project
is building proof support for the ELLA hardware description language
within HOL. It is a SERC funded project in collaboration with British
Aerospace (Dynamics). The work will consist in developing and testing
(by case studies) a methodology for verified design using the
prototype HOL-ELLA system which, it is hoped, will be ready later this
year.

A second position is on the CHEOPS project. This project is an
European Esprit "Basic Research Action" and is joint with IMEC in
Belgium and Philips in The Netherlands. The goal of the project is to
investigate the formal verification of synthesis modules in the
CATHEDRAL system. The work at Cambridge could either be on formal
proof (in collaboration with researchers in IMEC) or on the
development of the HOL system, especially its front-end proof support
environment. The position could be filled at either the predoctoral or
postdoctoral level and is funded for about a year and a half (but an
extension is possible). The person appointed will be expected to
provide some help with the management and distribution of the HOL
system.

If you are interested in any of these positions, please send me email.

Mike Gordon


