Position

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Several Positions

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Working area/topic

Knowledge Engineering/Management, WWW, NLP

Affiliation

City

Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Southampton, and the Open University

Country

UK

Description

UK ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT NOW HIRING

The Advanced Knowledge Technologies project (AKT) is a six year, twelve
million dollar research collaboration between five top UK Universities. The
project, beginning in October 2000, will pursue an exciting and innovative
research agenda to support the management of knowledge through its entire
life cycle.

The challenges to be addressed within AKT include the capture, modelling,
retrieval, reuse, publishing and maintenance of knowledge assets. The
project will research the methodologies, tools, techniques and services
that need to be developed in the twenty first century to support knowledge
workers in the knowledge-based economies.

AKT has been funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council. AKT's Technical Director is Professor Nigel Shadbolt of the
University of Southampton, the co-ordinating site for the research
collaboration. Co-investigators and their institutions include Professor
Wendy Hall, University of Southampton; Professor Derek Sleeman, University
of Aberdeen; Professor Austin Tate and Dr David Robertson, University of
Edinburgh; Professor Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield; Professor Marc
Eisenstadt and Dr Enrico Motta, The Open University.

A significant number of well-funded posts at various levels are now
available at the partner sites. These include a research lectureship,
postdoctoral fellowships, research assistantships, and AKT studentships
leading to a PhD.

The AKT research programme offers exciting opportunities for researchers
interested in:

Knowledge Engineering
Knowledge Management
World Wide Web Technologies
Distributed Information Management
Natural Language Processing

Further background on the project and pointers to the specific job
opportunities currently available at the participant institutions can be
found on our web site at www.aktors.org. With the exception of the Open
University closing dates for this initial round of appointments is 31 July 2000.

Contact address

Further background on the project and pointers to the specific job
opportunities currently available at the participant institutions can be
found on our web site at www.aktors.org.

Application deadline

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