A collaborative initiative by the three University of California campuses in Southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego, and Irvine) has been announced. UCLA, UCSD, and UCI are coming together for the first time to form a semantic Computing Consortium. The intent of the consortium will be to ally Semantics from both the Industry/Commercial and Academic Perspectives, not only to promote the technology, but also to create an infrastructure usable to all participants, in addition to stimulating the interest of this still nascent, but extremely powerful technology.

The existence of the Semantic Computing Center will undoubtedly have a powerful and positive impact on the Southern California community in general, as well as facilitate significant advancement and progress in the Arena of Semantic Computing, from both an academic and commercial prospective. Having such a powerful consortium here in Southern California is an extremely exciting prospect and will facilitate in defining/creating Southern California as a high tech strip with respect to Semantic Computing.

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Qualcomm is looking for Innovative Software Engineers in San Diego, CA. According to the post, “Qualcomm Research is working on strategic projects for the development of new technologies that will be commercialized in near future. We do research in a wide range of areas such as the Internet of Things, Neuromorphic Computing, Augmented Reality, Context-aware Computing, Multimedia streaming, Low-power networks, Network Interface Selection, WWAN and Next-generation Wi-Fi. We seek highly innovative and motivated engineers who can get things done. You will be working in a team of multi-disciplined engineers in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging work environment. Successful applicants will be creative, enthusiastic innovators who are equally comfortable with researching new technologies and implementing code that would go into commercial devices.” Read more

Qualcomm is looking for a Systems Engineer in San Diego, CA. The post states, “We seek a Systems Engineer with demonstrable knowledge and experience in algorithms and modeling, embedded device architecture, protocols and system design. We expect our systems engineers to keep up to date and understand technological advances in areas directly and indirectly related to mobile and wireless systems and devices and channel those trends toward enabling new applications. To that end, the responsibilities include developing new system architectures, protocols, services, standards, middleware or hardware enhancements.” Read more

Qualcomm Research is looking for an Innovative Software Engineer in San Diego, CA. According to the post, “Qualcomm Research is working on strategic projects for the development of new technologies that will be commercialized in near future. We do research in a wide range of areas such as the Internet of Things, Neuromorphic Computing, Augmented Reality, Context-aware Computing, Multimedia streaming, Low-power networks, Network Interface Selection, WWAN and Next-generation Wi-Fi. We seek highly innovative and motivated engineers who can get things done. You will be working in a team of multi-disciplined engineers in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging work environment. Successful applicants will be creative, enthusiastic innovators who are equally comfortable with researching new technologies and implementing code that would go into commercial devices.” Read more

Qualcomm is looking for an Innovative Software Engineer in San Diego, CA. The post states, “Qualcomms Corporate Research and Development division is working on strategic projects for the development of new technologies that will be commercialized in near future. We do research in a wide range of areas such as the Internet of things, Neuromorphic computing, Augmented reality, Context-aware computing, Multimedia streaming, Low-power networks, WWAN and Next-generation Wi-Fi.” Read more

The University of California, San Diego is looking for a Data Architect. According to the post, “This position works under the direction of the System Development Manager for the Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure (OOI CI) program at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). The incumbent will work in a national-scale environment and will work closely with project management, technical staff, customers and users. Leadership, initiative, strategic approach and team orientation are critical. Previous experience with high-reliability production data environments (e.g. digital libraries, scientific cyberinfrastructures, social networks, or financial services) is required.” Read more

Qualcomm is looking for an Artificial Intelligence & Reasoning Engineer in San Diego, CA. The post states, “We seek a Systems Engineer with demonstrable knowledge and experience in artificial intelligence, reasoning, semantics and natural language processing. We expect our systems engineers to keep up to date and understand technological advances in areas directly and indirectly related to mobile and wireless systems and devices and channel those trends toward enabling new applications. To that end, the responsibilities include developing new system architectures, algorithms, protocols, standards and implementation.” Read more

Semantic Research Inc. is looking for a Java UI Engineer in San Diego, CA. The post states, “Your mission is to develop intuitive, sophisticated graph visualization and manipulation tools that interface with the world’s most powerful semantic network engine. The UI Engineer will help create an appealing, efficient user experience in knowledge management tools. This will involve defining and building creative mechanisms for standard UI functionality like dragging, clicking, LnF, component renderers etc. Additionally, the successful candidate will help solve deep visualization problems with multidimensional data by helping to define a consistent set of metaphors for visualizing semantic networks in Temporal, Geospatial and various abstract forms and will be responsible for developing them in an extensible and re-useable manner.” Read more

San Diego startup Swarmology has stepped out of stealth mode with the debut of its website and the disclosure of $1.2 million in initial funding. According to the article, “The company, founded last December by pharmaceutical and health IT executive Malcolm Bohm, provides targeted, Web-based marketing services for its customers by analyzing online conversations about specific health concerns on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Swarmology’s customers already include a large healthcare insurance provider and a couple of smaller pharmaceutical companies, Bohm says.” Read more

QUALCOMM is looking for an Artificial Intelligence & Reasoning Engineer in San Diego, CA. According to the post, “QUALCOMM Corporate R&D has a mission to advance wireless and mobile communications to create compelling user experience with next generation mobile devices. We seek a Systems Engineer with demonstrable knowledge and experience in artificial intelligence, reasoning, semantics and natural language processing.” Read more