22 December: fyi -- lectureship, Sheffield

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Lectureship / Senior Lectureship


Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web (including their
use for Knowledge Management in large organisations), Multimedia
analysis (including text extraction, speech and image analysis) and
Human Computer Interaction.

This is one of several strategic academic appointments, and we are
seeking a dynamic and inspiring individual who can contribute to
research and teaching in our Organisations, Information and Knowledge
(OAK) research group.

The group has current funds of over ?3m coming from the EU (including
the coordination of a large Integrated Project and the participation
in two other large IPs and a large STREP), Industry (recent funders
are Rolls-Royce plc, Kodak and Lycos Europe) and UK Research Councils
(EPSRC, ERC, JISC, AHRC, TSB). The group is led by Professor Fabio
Ciravegna and has around 20 post-doctoral researchers and PhD
students.

The Department has an international reputation for the quality of its
research and teaching excellence. The OAK research group focus on
research and innovation in Information and Knowledge
Technologies. Areas of interest include the Semantic and Future Web,
their use for Knowledge Management in large organisations, Multimedia
analysis (including text extraction, speech and image analysis) and
Human Computer Interaction.

Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to the Head of
Department, Professor John Derrick, jd@dcs.shef.ac.uk, phone +44 114
222 1849, or the head of the OAK research group, Professor Fabio
Ciravegna, fabio@dcs.shef.ac.uk .

Closing date for applications: 19th February 2010

Job reference number: UOS000512

Further details and process of application are given at:

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/academic.html


Best regards
Fabio Ciravegna
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Professor Fabio Ciravegna,
Director of Research & Innovation in the Digital World,
The University of Sheffield
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Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies,
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK
Tel:+44(0)114-22.21940, Fax:+44(0)114-22.21810
www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/

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