Software Applications Developer at Texas A&M
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Inserito il 09/03/2016
from "Humanist"
The Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) at Texas
A&M seeks a Lead Software Applications Developer to work full-time on IDHMC
projects, with faculty on faculty-led projects, and with graduate students
on their digital research.
The IDHMC is a vibrant Digital Humanities (DH) center. We are building
software for research in big data on the big screen: we have a Humanities
Visualization Space, a wall of screens, for which we are developing search,
discovery, and visualization tools. Also, We are building an early modern
data center: we have received grant funding to support research into
developing Optical Character Recognition engines for early modern texts.
IDHMC team members have had opportunities to work on cutting-edge research
into OCR technologies and neural networking, data mining, and the
applications of visualization on digital scholarship across the humanities
and social science disciplines. Our Lead Software Applications Developer
will have the opportunity to participate in external and internally funded
grant projects.
Our lead technical person will work on teams with faculty members,
librarians, technical and humanities graduate students, and others in the
area of digital humanities (DH) to enhance and create grant-funded DH
projects. He or she will support scholars in a wide range of academic
disciplines including literature, history, art and architecture,
archaeology, communications (?) AND WITH (?) computer science researchers
exploring the state of the art in digital libraries, through knowledge of
system administration of Linux servers, web-scale information storage and
retrieval, OCR technologies, and Content Management System support.
Applicants with strengths in collaborative development, creative decision
making, and system or infrastructure support are encouraged to apply.
Texas A&M University is an equal opportunity employer.
Please apply here: http://jobpath.tamu.edu/postings/93466
