[game_edu] Where to post *CS* (technical) game design academic job positions?

Sean Luke sean at cs.gmu.edu
Tue Nov 25 10:41:42 EST 2008


In March I asked where to advertise for assistant professor positions
for artists in game design. This got a number of helpful responses
(thanks!) but spawned a monster thread (see http://tinyurl.com/5h7g5h ).
So... risking another monster thread, I'm back with the following:

GMU will soon be advertising for a position in the *Computer Science*
department doing computer game design and development. This is a
tenure-track PhD *CS* position rather than an artist-oriented position
(of course, we're very interested in those who do both!).

Ordinarily in CS we'd post to CACM, IEEE Spectrum, cra.org, etc., the
usual haunts of those looking for CS academic jobs. But I've observed
that it can be challenging to find PhDs in CS fields related to computer
game design/development who also know enough about the tools and mores
of the industry to be really good at teaching the topic.

So: where else should we post? Where does that rare PhD who Knows the
Game Industry lurk?

- Gamasutra/Game Developer Magazine? Or is that really too dominated by
people looking for industrial jobs?

- This honorable list?

- Some secret location in the GDC?

- etc.

Sean





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