The Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab (GSL) in Madison, Wisconsin has several positions open at the Ph.D. or M.S. levels for exceptionally well-qualified individuals with significant experience in the design and implementation of database management systems. Organizationally, GSL is part of the Microsoft SQL Server Division. Located on the edge of the UW-Madison campus, the GSL staff collaborates closely with the faculty and graduate students of the database group at the University of Wisconsin. We currently have several on-going projects in the areas of parallel database systems, advanced storage technologies for database systems, energy-aware database systems, and the design and implementation of database systems for multicore CPUs.

Applications are invited for a fully funded studentship in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, for a doctoral student who will work for the Oxford D.Phil degree within the research project

“Verb semantics and argument realization in pre-modern Japanese: a comprehensive study of the basic syntax of pre-modern Japanese:

generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. The studentship, which is open to UK and EU students, covers tuition fees as well as maintenance. The doctoral student will be given the opportunity to work on his/her own research within the project and will also form a full part of the research team and contribute to all aspects of the overall project, including work on the text database.

The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2009-2010 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library, and all proposed research must be appropriate to the collections (excluding the Terra Foundation Fellowship and certain short-term awards). Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry’s collections and with the lively community of researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available for periods of six to eleven months to postdoctoral scholars who must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application.

The Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland is inviting applications for a PhD in Information Systems with an emphasis on database integration. The project is supported by a grant from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).