NUS-MDA Singapore
Hollywood Attachment Program (NUS-MDA SHAPE)

Attachments in the platforms lab will involve creating novel technologies to support interactive TV services around search, social networking, advertising and peer-to-peer content distribution. More context on the kinds of activities you might engage in can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/venuv/tvnext-presentation. Actual development will take place leveraging open industry platforms including iPhone, Android and Java-Linux. Trainees with an interest in web 2.0 platforms, and/or skills in information retrieval, 3-d graphics and content delivery networks will be preferred.

Trainees will develop prototype widget applications (JavaScript, HTML), Webkit/WINCE device drivers, and server side Web applications (Apache, J2EE). Trainees will also conduct testing and validation support of webkit framework and prototype applications.

Help to develop a new location-based mobile media experience of Hollywood in a joint project between the NUS-MDA Singapore Hollywood Lab and the UCLA Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance.

In collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science, this project will prototype an interactive, location-aware mobile experience about Hollywood and the history of film and television.

Media sources will include the UCLA Film and Television archive, second in size to only to the US Library of Congress. and the largest archive of any University in the world, as well as the UCLA Library and original media by the project team.

The trainee will work with the UCLA and NUS-Singapore Hollywood team on a Flash prototype interface based on tools and platforms developed at UCLA.

Adobe Flash development experience (website or stand alone).

Familiar with video editing in Final Cut Pro and image manipulation in the Adobe Creative suite very useful. Interest in film history a plus.

The currently research at Animation and Gaming Research Lab is focusing on the following direction: data-driven approaches for human motion synthesis, interactive control for computer animation, and accelerating data-parallel applications with Graphics Processing Unit. We are seeking qualified trainees to conduct research in these areas. The research activities include literature review, research method study, research system implementation, publication preparation. The trainees will be guided through such research process. The goal is to help the trainees to improve their research skills in the areas of computer animation, machine learning and parallel computing with GPUs.

1. Understand computer graphics processing pipeline.
2. Have deep knowledge about OpenGL programming framework.
3. Familiar with object-orient programming language, such as C++.
4. Have experience with Matlab.
5. Understand modern computer architecture, especially memory hierarchy.

1. Have experience with animation programming, familiar with concept of skeleton based character animation.
2. Have experience with motion capture system and motion capture data.
3. Have strong background in machine learning, such as statistical models and optimization.
4. Understand GPU programming, have experience with Cg, HLSL or GLSL or familiar with NVidia's CUDA framework

Help to develop a new location-based mobile media experience of the new 32-acre Los Angeles State Historic Park in a joint project between the NUS-MDA Singapore Hollywood Lab and the UCLA Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance.

Remapping LA, a collaboration of the UCLA Center for Research in Media, Engineering, and Performance (REMAP) and California State Parks is seeking an trainee with experience and interest in developing new mixed-reality applications for mobile and embedded devices. The inspiration and site for the experimentation is the Los Angeles State Historic Park, under development for first phase construction in 2010/2011. Project resources include a Park-wide WiFi mesh network, extensive historical and contemporary media database, and an experienced development team.

The work will be performed in highly multidisciplinary team collaborations that include industry support from companies such as Cisco and Nokia, community partnerships with groups in Downtown Los Angeles, and on-campus partnerships with labs such as the National Science Foundation Center for Embedded Networked Sensing and the Macarthur Foundation award-winning Hypercities project.

The trainee will work with the UCLA and NUS-Singapore Hollywood team on the prototyping and public experimentation with mixed reality systems to create cultural experience and gameplay at the Park.

Mobile or embedded systems development, and some experience with existing mixed and augmented reality toolkits.

Game design and development experience; interest in mobile computing and the role of technology in public space and culture.

Best known as creators of the world famous Muppets (the rights to which are now owned by The Walt Disney Company), The Jim Henson Company is an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, computer graphics, and digital media entertainment.

Attachment positions at the Jim Henson Company in Hollywood, California are designed for advanced trainees or graduates who are on their path to become professionals in the digital entertainment industry. Either artistically oriented or production oriented applicants should have the following skills when applying for an trainee position at the Jim Henson Company:

1. Strong interest in film, TV and game production.
2. Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Excel and File Maker Pro.
3. Good English language skills (understanding and speaking).

1. Strong interest in the field of animation and/or puppetry.
2. Good knowledge of Autodesk's Maya and Adobe's Photoshop a must.
3. Knowledge of software programs such as Zbrush, UV Layout, Shake, After Effects or Final Cut Pro a plus.
4. Good English language skills (understanding and speaking).

In addition for applicants in the artistic field, please add a portfolio (please color copies only, no original artwork) and/or a demo reel (DVD in standard NTSC format or a CD with QuickTime/jpeg files).

We are looking for highly motivated graduate trainees who have experience and are interested in visualization, HCI and interactive multi-touch development.

The project will involve research and development of multi-user multi-touch collaborative visualization systems to be used as cooperative learning modules for college trainees and for communicating sciences to the public in the domain of Life Sciences(e.g. molecular and cell biology, structural biology, or evolutionary systems). We will be working closely with science domain experts and instructors, to utilize many of the innovative HCI techniques and visualization schemes from our UIST/CHI/InfoVis communities to benefit science education and learning. The trainee will have the opportunity to work with world-renowned scientists/educators from Harvard University. As one example, the trainee might have the opportunity to work with the creators of the Inner Life of Cell concept, Alain Viel and Robert Lue ( http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/media.html), amongst others. There will be plenty of challenges where the trainee will be able to research new ideas in interactive visual computing.