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Seen in usenet, quote:
>We expect our experimental framework to
>include significant utilization of WWW and the Internet as an
>information source and communications infrastructure.
Looks like a CL-HTTP application. ;-)
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Job opportunity: KB Technology Evaluation at
IET (Arlington, VA)
>From kng@netcom.com (Keung-Chi Ng)
Organization IET Inc.,
Date Fri, 14 Feb 1997 02:48:21 GMT
Newsgroups comp.ai
Message-ID <kngE5KnsL.J0w@netcom.com>
RESEARCH SCIENTIST POSITION at IET
Information Extraction & Transport (IET), Inc. has been selected to
develop "Challenge Problems" to focus and evaluate High Performance
Knowledge Base (HPKB) technology. HPKB is a four-year initiative
sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA). HPKB is aimed at developing innovative technologies
supporting the construction of knowledge bases (KBs), ontologies, and
associated libraries of problem-solving strategies. The intent is to
leverage rapid creation and evolution of much larger, easier to build,
and easier to modify KBs, ontologies and problem solvers than today's
technology allows. Fifteen or more leading-edge research institutions
will participate in annual challenge problem evaluations and
conferences.
Our challenge problem domain involves defining requirements and
exercising knowledge base technology for intelligent tools to support
"Crisis Management" at the highest levels of Government. Such tools
might assist in forming crisis action teams, setting up channels of
information gathering, digestion, and dissemination, or formulating
coarse-of-action responses. We expect our experimental framework to
include significant utilization of WWW and the Internet as an
information source and communications infrastructure.
IET has an immediate opening for a research scientist to play a
formative role in developing these challenge problems and in designing
effective evaluation procedures for them. This position will involve
significant interaction with the AI and KB development community,
especially leading universities, and with Government programs applying
this technology in Crisis Management.
IET is an expanding R&D company that does custom artificial
intelligence and robotic systems design and development, as well as
modeling of expert knowledge. IET specializes in state-of-the-art
developments in knowledge- and model-based inference, computer
modeling of human expertise, image understanding, human-computer
interface, and expert and normative systems. IET's office is located
in Rosslyn (Arlington), Virginia directly across the Potomac River
from Washington, DC.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: PhD or equivalent experience in computer
science or related discipline. Excellent written and verbal
communication skills. Fluent in one or more of Lisp, C++, C,
Java. Ability to work productively in an unstructured environment with
limited supervision. U.S. citizenship. Basic or applied research and
development experience in one or more of the following:
knowledge base technology,
logic-based and database systems,
uniform information retrieval across heterogenous sources,
knowledge elicitation and acquisition,
natural language processing,
data base mining or agent-based architectures for WWW.
COMPENSATION: Competitive salary and benefits.
Please forward a resume/CV and your statement of interest to Robert
Schrag (Principal Investigator) using the contact information below.
Robert C. Schrag, Ph.D.
Information Extraction & Transport, Inc. (703) 841-3501 Fax
1731 North Lynn Street, Suite 502 schrag@iet.com
Rosslyn, VA 22209 USA http://www.iet.com/users/schrag
For more information about DARPA's HPKB program, please visit the
following URL. Page down to HPKB, and click on "Additional Proposer
Information".
<http://yorktown.dc.isx.com/iso/solicitations/index.html>
Rainer Joswig, Lavielle EDV Systemberatung GmbH & Co, Lotharstrasse 2b, D22041
Hamburg, Tel: +49 40 658088, Fax: +49 40 65808-202,
Email: joswig@lavielle.com , WWW: http://www.lavielle.com/~joswig/