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