Tuesday 20 April 2010

Job Vacancy

Researcher/Senior Researcher

Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
£27,319 – £35,646, Ref: 6375
Based in Milton Keynes
Contract until 30 June 2012


KMi has an opening for a Research Assistant/Associate (depending on experience and qualifications) to undertake research on Social Semantic Web and Web Science in the context of the EU-funded project WeGov. WeGov aims at developing a toolset that interacts with common social networking systems (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube) to better track and understand the opinions and behaviour of citizens during governance and policy-making processes. The tools will allow discussions on these social networking systems to be linked, seeded, and stimulated through injection of policy discussion points into relevant communities.

You should have a strong interest and expertise in Social Media and Software, Semantic Web, and Web Science and holds a degree in Computer Science or in other relevant disciplines. You must be able to combine scientific research with practical research and development in the project, and are willing to travel and work with the project’s academic and industrial partners.

For detailed information and how to apply go to here, call the KMi Recruitment Coordinator on +44 (0) 1908 654774 or email quoting the reference number. Closing date: 6th May 2010.

Tuesday 6 April 2010

PerCom 2010

Just got back from the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010) in Mannheim, Germany. Some nice work was presented, but strangely there was almost nothing about semantics. There was quite a bit on social web and pervasive devices. Ciro Cattuto and I gave a talk at the First International Workshop on Communication, Collaboration and Social Networking in Pervasive Computing Environments (PerCol). The paper [1] focuses on the RFID side of our work on Live Social Semantics.

[1] Wouter Van den Broeck, Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, Martin Szomsor, Gianluca Correndo and Harith Alani. The Live Social Semantics application: a platform for integrating face-to-face presence with on-line social networking. Proceedings of the PerCol Workshop, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Mannheim, Germany, 2010.

Talk went very well and it was the highlight of the conference ;)