Hi everybody this is Scott Sad earlier today on my ex-feed

formerly Twitter I posted a screenshot of two calls for open positions at the University of Waterloo. many of you may have heard that University of Waterloo has been referred to as the MIT of Canada because historically it has very strong

and computer science programs and so this is from

I'm just going to read it to verbatim this is is from the Sheraton School of Computer Science. It's an

N-circ, N-circ is the governmental funding agency for the natural sciences.

So it's an engineering.

I think it's the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council,

if I remember my acronym.

So it's an NERC tier one, so the highest level

of professorship, tier one, Canada Research Chairs in Computer Science, two positions.

The Canada Research Chairs is the most prestigious Chaired Prof professorship.

Basically, it's a Canadian government

that is endowing the chair.

And so these are two chaired Canada research chair

professorships at one of the leading computer science departments in Canada.

You ready?

The David R. Sher Sheridan School of Computer Science and the Faculty of Mathematics at the University

of Waterloo invites applications for two tenured faculty positions.

Exceptional scholars and researchers at the rank of full professor or associate professor

are sought who are eligible to apply for a tier 1 Canada research chair established by the

government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to foster research

excellence. Priority research areas include for position one, all areas of artificial intelligence.

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