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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.25, Issue 461
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
June 29, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 25
Issue 461
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I. QUERIES
1. Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia
2. Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia - Reply
II. JOBS
1. U. Sheffield/Glaxowellcome R&D Ltd.: 3 Research Positions, IR
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] 6.21.99
2. Advances in Automatic Text Summarization
3. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 6.28.99
B. Meetings
1. CIA-99: Last CFParticipation
2. CONTEXT'99: CFParticipation
IV. PROJECTS
C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
1. NSF CAREER and PECASE proposals due 7/22/99
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I. QUERIES
I.1.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia
_Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia_
For a newsletter article I will be submitting early next week, I am greatly
interested in listing additional e-journals that have integrated multimedia
with their e-articles. Among the types of embedded multimedia I've
identified to date are:
- Animation
- Datasets
- Geospatial plotting
- Interactive 3-D displays
- Interactive graphs
- Interactive spreadsheets, tables
-' Live Math' and numerical code
- Music
- Sound
-Video
- Virtual Reality
The e-journals have identified to date that include some of these
multimedia features are:
* Combustion Theory and Modelling (IOP)
http://www.iop.org/Journals/ct
* Earth Interactions
http://earthinteractions.org/
* Internet Archaeology
http://intarch.ac.uk/news/eva97.html
* Internet Journal of Chemistry
http://www.ijc.com/multimedia.html
http://www.ijc.com/
* Nanotechnology (IOP)
http://www.iop.org/Journals/na
* Videre
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Videre/
As Always, Any and All Contributions are Most Welcome!
Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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I.2.
Fr: Michiel Kolman <m.kolman@elsevier.nl>
Re: Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia - Reply
Hi Gerry,
There is also New Astronomy with animation etc.:
www.elsevier.com/locate/newast
Best wishes,
Michiel
Michiel Kolman, PhD
Senior Publishing Editor
Physics & Astronomy Division
Elsevier Science
Sara Burgerhartstraat 25
1055 KV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
ph: + 31 20 485 2532
fax: + 31 20 485 2580
Email: m.kolman@elsevier.nl
URL: www.elsevier.nl
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II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: Mark Sanderson <m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk>
Re: U. Sheffield/Glaxowellcome R&D Ltd.: 3 Research Positions, IR
THREE RESEARCH POSITIONS IN INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
at
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD AND GLAXOWELLCOME RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
TRESTLE (Text Retrieval, Extraction and Summarisation Technologies for
Large Enterprises) is a 2-year demonstrator project to apply
state-of-the-art research in text processing to the provision of customised
corporate information services. The project will be carried out in
collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science and of
Information Studies at the University of Sheffield and staff at the
Stevenage laboratories of GlaxoWellcome Research and Development Limited.
Applications are now invited for three research positions in the TRESTLE team.
Position A will involve work on the design and implementation of
information extraction methods, with the successful candidate having a
higher degree in some aspect of computational natural language processing.
Position B will involve work on information retrieval and summarisation
methods, with the successful candidate having a higher degree in some
aspect of information retrieval or human-computer interaction. Position C
will involve the analysis of corporate information needs, with the
successful candidate having experience of qualitative data analysis and the
elicitation of user requirements.
All three positions are available from 1st July 1999 or as soon as possible
thereafter. Positions A and B will be on the RA1A scale and position C on
the RA1B scale.
For informal discussions on these positions contact: Dr Robert Gaizauskas
(0114-2221827 or r.gaizauskas@sheffield.c.uk) for position A and Prof.
Peter Willett (0114-2222633 or p.willett@sheffield.ac.uk) for positions B
and C.
Closing Date for applications: 13 July 1999
For information on how to apply see:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/rw1741.html
Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648
Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300
University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk
Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/
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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] 6/21/99
EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies
http://www.educause.edu
EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 21, 1999
***IN THIS ISSUE***
INTERNET GAMBLING BILL GOES TO SENATE FLOOR FOR SECOND TIME
SENATE PASSES Y2K LIABILITY LIMITATION BILL
UPCOMING EVENTS:
1) COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL DISTANCE EDUCATION: HOUSE JUDICIARY
SUBCOMMITTEE TO HOLD HEARING ON COPYRIGHT OFFICE REPORT
2) SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON INTERNET FILTERING
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update"
is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies.
Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
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would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at
gsern@educause.edu.
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III.A.2.
Fr: Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU>
Re: Advances in Automatic Text Summarization
For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MANDHF99
Advances in Automatic Text Summarization
edited by Inderjeet Mani and Mark T. Maybury
With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic information
services, information is becoming available on-line at an incredible rate.
One result is the oft-decried information overload. No one has time to read
everything, yet we often have to make critical decisions based on what we
are able to assimilate. The technology of automatic text summarization is
becoming indispensable for dealing with this problem. Text summarization is
the process of distilling the most important information from a source to
produce an abridged version for a particular user or task.
Until now there has been no state-of-the-art collection of the most
important writings in automatic text summarization. This book presents the
key developments in the field in an integrated framework and suggests
future research areas. The book is organized into six sections: Classical
Approaches, Corpus-Based Approaches, Exploiting Discourse Structure,
Knowledge-Rich Approaches, Evaluation Methods, and New Summarization
Problem Areas.
Contributors
D. A. Adams, C. Aone, R. Barzilay, E. Bloedorn, B. Boguraev, R. Brandow, C.
Buckley, F. Chen, M. J. Chrzanowski, H. P. Edmundson, M. Elhadad, T.
Firmin, R. P. Futrelle, J. Gorlinsky, U. Hahn, E. Hovy, D. Jang, K. Sparck
Jones, G. M. Kasper, C. Kennedy, K. Kukich, J. Kupiec, B. Larsen, W. G.
Lehnert, C. Lin, H. P. Luhn, I. Mani, D. Marcu, M. Maybury, K. McKeown, A.
Merlino, M. Mitra, K. Mitze, M. Moens, A. H. Morris, S. H. Myaeng, M. E.
Okurowski, J. Pedersen, J. J. Pollock, D. R. Radev, G. J. Rath, L. F. Rau,
U. Reimer, A. Resnick, J. Robin, G. Salton, T. R. Savage, A. Singhal, G.
Stein, T. Strzalkowski, S. Teufel, J. Wang, B. Wise, A. Zamora.
8 1/2 x 11, 416 pp., 150 illus., cloth 0-262-13359-8
Jud Wolfskill
Associate Publicist Phone: (617) 253-2079
MIT Press Fax: (617) 253-1709
Five Cambridge Center E-mail: wolfskil@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 http://mitpress.mit.edu
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III.A.3.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 6.28.99
EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies
http://www.educause.edu
EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 28, 1999
***IN THIS ISSUE***
COPYRIGHT AND DISTANCE EDUCATION: HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE DEBATES
RECOMMENDATIONS OF COPYRIGHT OFFICE REPORT
INTERNET FILTERING, ENCRYPTION, E-COMMERCE BILLS ALL PASS OUT OF SENATE
COMMERCE COMMITTEE
BROADBAND: PANELISTS PROVIDE HOUSE TELECOM SUBCOMMITTEE WITH LESSON ON
BROADBAND
ICANN: CONGRESSIONAL CRITICISM OF ICANN INCREASES
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update"
is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies.
Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname"
in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update"
command to the same address. If you would like more information about the
Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact
Garret Sern at gsern@educause.edu.
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III.B.1.
Fr: Matthias Klusch <klusch@dfki.de>
Re: CIA-99: Last CFParticipation
LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Third International Workshop CIA-99 on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS
July 31 - August 2, 1999
Uppsala, Sweden
http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html
The workshop is co-sponsored by
ESPRIT Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing
Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T Berlin, Germany
Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH, Germany
Active Online Systems, London, UK
George Mason University, USA
Uppsala University, Sweden
INVITED SPEAKERS
Walt Truszkowski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Pat Langley (Daimler-Chrysler AG, R&T, USA)
Amit Sheth (Georgia University, USA)
Mike P. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA)
Michael C. Lewis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Alexander Brodsky (George Mason University, USA)
Erol Gelenbe (Duke University, USA)
REGISTRATION
The regular registration fee amounts to 170 USD (160 EUR, 1400 SEK).
We offer a reduced fee of 145 USD for members of the ESPRIT Network of
Excellence for Agent-Based Computing AgentLink (http://www.agentlink.org).
Travel support is provided by AgentLink for authors of accepted CIA-99
papers coming from AgentLink member nodes.
Included in the workshop fee are the lunches for Saturday July 31 and
Sunday August 1, as well as the social event (boat trip with dinner,
Saturday evening July 31).
Please register for the CIA-99 workshop using the form available at
http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin/cia99/
LOCATION & ACCOMMODATION
The workshop will be held at University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, from
Saturday, July 31 til Monday, August 2, around noon. A limited number of
rooms has been reserved in advance at the Hotel Basic in Uppsala for a
preferential rate (July 30 to August 2). Please refer to booking number
36871 and book before July 16 in order to qualify for this rate. For
further information on accommodation and hotel reservation we refer to:
http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99Loc.html For your
convenience we also offer a very timely shuttle service enabling you to
participate at the start of IJCAI-99 main conference in Stockholm on
Monday, August 2.
If you need any help concerning local matters in Uppsala, equipment at the
workshop venue, etc. please send your inquiry to:
cia99-registration@docs.uu.se
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the workshop will be published in July 1999 as
M. Klusch, O. Shehory, and G. Weiss (Eds.),
Cooperative Information Agents III
Proceedings 3rd International Workshop CIA-99
Springer Publisher, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 1652.
and also be available at the workshop.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
SATURDAY, july 31, 1999
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening of the Workshop
Session 1:
Information Discovery and Management on the Internet
9:00 - 9:45
Invited Talk:
Agent Technology from a NASA Perspective
Walt Truszkowski (USA)
9:45 - 10:30
Invited Talk:
Autonomous Search for Information in an Unknown Environment
Erol Gelenbe (USA)
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45
Invited Talk:
Agent-Based Optimal Constraint Management in Distributed Information
Environments
Alexander Brodsky and Samuel Varas (USA)
LUNCH BREAK
Parallel Sessions 2 & 3
Session 2:
Information Agents on the Internet -
Prototypes, Systems and Applications (1)
14:00 - 14:30
A Multi-Agent Architecture for an Intelligent Website in Insurance
Catholijn M. Jonker, Remco A. Lam, and Jan Treur (Netherlands)
14:30 - 15:00
Formation of Cooperative Behavior among Information Agents in
Web Repository Change Monitoring Service
Santi Saeyor and Mitsuru Ishizuka (Japan)
15:00 - 15:30 Open Discussion
Session 3:
Information Agents on the Internet -
Prototypes, Systems and Applications (2)
14:00 - 14:30
GETESS - Searching the Web Exploiting German Texts
Steffen Staab, Christian Braun, Ilvio Bruder, et al. (Germany)
14:30 - 15:00
An Agent-Based System for Intelligent Collaborative Filtering
Colm O'Riordan and Humphrey Sorensen (Ireland)
15:00 - 15:30 Open Discussion
Coffee Break
Session 4:
Communication and Collaboration
16:00 - 16:30
Inter-Agent Communication in Cooperative Information Agent-Based Systems
Hassan Gomaa (USA)
16:30 - 17:00
Intention Reconciliation in the Context of Teamwork:
An Initial Empirical Investigation
David G. Sullivan, Alyssa Glass, Barbara J. Grosz, and Sarit Kraus (USA,
Israel)
17:00 - 17:30
A Similarity Evaluation Technique for Cooperative Problem Solving with a
Group of Agents
Seppo Puuronen and Vagan Terziyan (Finland)
17:30 - 18:00
A Computational Model for a Cooperating Agent System
Misbah Deen (UK)
SUNDAY, august 1, 1999
Session 5:
Mobile Information Agents
8:30 - 9:00
Mobile Agents Behaviours: From Declarative Specifications to Implementation
C. Hanachi, N. Hameurlain, and C. Sibertin-Blanc (France)
9:00 - 9:30
Maintaining Specialized Search Engines through Mobile Filter Agents
W. Theilmann and K. Rothermel (Germany)
9:30 - 10:00
Execution Monitoring in Adaptive Mobile Agents
W. Vieira and L.M. Camarinha-Matos (Portugal)
10:00 - 10:30
Mobile-Agent Mediated Place Oriented Communication
Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yasuhiro Mawarimichi, and Shoji Tatsumi (Japan)
Coffee Break
Session 6:
Rational Information Agents for Electronic Business
11:00 - 11:45
Invited Talk:
Agents and Automated Commerce on the Internet
Michael Wellman (USA)
11:45 - 12:30
Invited Talk:
The Role of Agent Technology in Business to Business Electronic Commerce
Mike P. Papazoglou (Netherlands)
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:30
An Agency-Based Framework for Electronic Business
Larry Kerschberg and Sonali Banerjee (USA)
14:30 - 15:00
Secure Agent-Mediated Auctionlike Negotiation Protocol
for Internet Retail Commerce
X.F. Wang, X. Yi, K.Y. Lam, C.Q. Zhang, and E. Okamoto (Singapore, Australia)
Coffee Break
Session 7:
Service Mediation and Negotiation
15:30 - 16:15
Invited Talk:
Information Brokering in Digital Media
Amit Sheth (USA)
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:00
Arbitration and Matchmaking for Agents with Conflicting Interests
Thomas Tesch and Peter Fankhauser (Germany)
17:00 - 17:30
Enabling Integrative Negotiations by Adaptive Software Agents
Wolfgang Benn, Otmar Goerlitz, and Ralf Neubert (Germany)
17:30 - 18:00 Open Discussion
MONDAY, august 2, 1999
Session 8:
Adaptive, Personal Assistance
9:00 - 9:45
Invited Talk:
An Adaptive Conversational Interface for Destination Advice
Pat Langley (USA)
9:45 - 10:30
Invited Talk:
Anticipation, Delegation, and Demonstration: Why Talking to Agents is Hard
Michael C. Lewis (USA)
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
A Cooperative Comprehension-Assistant for Intranet-Based
Information Environments
Ludger van Elst
11:30 - 12:15
Invited Talk:
Digital City Kyoto: Towards A Social Information Infrastructure
Toru Ishida (Japan)
12:15 - 12:30
Closing of the Workshop
from 13:00
Direct Shuttle to Stockholm Conference Center
18:00
Opening of IJCAI-99 Conference at Stockholm Conference Center
ORGANIZATION & CONTACT
General Chair
Matthias Klusch (DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd., Germany)
Co-Chairs
Onn Shehory (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Gerhard Weiss (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA)
For more information please visit the CIA-99 Web page
http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html
or contact
Matthias Klusch
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
Phone: +49-681-302-5297
Fax: +49-681-302-2235
email: klusch@dfki.de
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III.B.2.
Fr: Massimo Benerecetti <bene@cs.unitn.it>
Re: CONTEXT'99: CFParticipation
CONTEXT'99
2nd INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON
MODELING AND USING CONTEXT
Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 1999.
http://www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99/
The importance of the notion of context is widely acknowledged, as
evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia and seminars on context held
in the last few years. The Second International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on Modeling and Using Context aims at providing a high quality
forum for discussion on context among researchers active in Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy,
and Psychology.
IMPORTANT DATES
Regular Student
Early Registration: June 7 - July 17 EURO 154.92 EURO 92.95
Late Registration : July 18 - August 13 EURO 216.89 EURO 123.94
Conference : Sept. 9-11, 1999
See CONTEXT'99 web page for registration and accommodation details:
http://www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99/register.html
INVITED SPEAKERS
ANDREA BONOMI (Department of Philosophy, University of Milan)
"Time, tense and reference in fiction"
GILLES FAUCONNIER (CogSci Dept., UC San Diego, CA)
"Dynamics of Meaning Construction"
FAUSTO GIUNCHIGLIA (University of Trento and ITC-IRST, Italy)
"Local models semantics, or contextual reasoning = locality + compatility"
DOUG LENAT (CYCorp., Austin, TX)
"The dimensions of context-space"
FRAN=C7OIS R=C9CANATI (CREA, =C9cole Polytechnique, FR)
"Are 'here' and 'now' indexicals?"
TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
Akman V., Alpaslan F.N.: Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context.
Arlo Costa H.: Epistemic context, defeasible inference and
conversational implicature.
Barnden J.A., Lee M.G.: An implemented context system that combines.
belief reasoning, metaphor-based reasoning and
uncertainty handling.
Bell J.: Pragmatic reasoning: Inferring contexts.
Berthouzoz C.: A model of context adapted to domain-independent
machine translation.
Bianchi C.: Three forms of contextual dependence.
Bunt H.: Context representation for dialogue management.
De Angeli A. et al.: The ecological approach to multimodal system
design.
Di Sciullo A.-M.: Formal context and morphological analysis.
Edmonds B.: The pragmatic roots of context.
Fetzer A.: Non-acceptances: Re- or un-creating context?
Ghidini C.: Modelling (Un)Bounded Beliefs.
Ghidini C., Serafini L.: A context-based logic for distributed knowledge
representation and reasoning.
Giraudet G. & Roumes C.: Independence from context information provided
by spatial signature learning in a natural
object localization task.
Hinzen W.: Contextual dependence and the epistemic
foundations
of dynamic semantics.
Kokinov B.: Dynamics and automaticity of context: A cognitive
modelling approach.
Kozai S.: A mental space account for speaker's empathy:
Japanese profiling identity vs. English shading
identity.
Matsui T.: Approaches to Japanese zero pronouns: Centering
and relevance.
Monz C.: Contextual inference in computational semantics.
Motschnig-Pitrik R.: Contexts and views in object-oriented languages.
Penco C.: Objective and Cognitive Context.
Pomerol J., Brezillon P.: Dynamics between contextual knowledge and
proceduralized context
Pri Y. et al.: A context-based audiovisual representation model
for audiovisual information systems.
Rodriguez M., Egenhofer M.: Putting similarity assessments into context:
Matching functions with the user's intended
operations.
Sbisa M.: Presupposition, implicature and context in text
understanding.
Smith B., Varzi A.C.: The formal structure of ecological contexts
Thomason R.: Type theoretic foundations for context. Part 1:
Contexts as complex type-theoretic objects.
Turner R.M.: A model of explicit context representation and
use for intelligent agents.
van der Torre L.: Violation contexts and deontic independence.
Vazov N.: Context-scanning rules, Linguistic markers,
Aspecto-temporal values, Temporal structures.
Wobcke W.: Reasoning about contexts for verifying.
Young R.A.: Context and supercontext.
Zibetti E. et al.: The role of context in interpreting perceived
events as actions.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE CHAIR
PATRICK BREZILLON
LIP6, Box 169,
University Paris VI, 4, Place Jussieu,
F-75252 PARIS Cedex 05 (France)
E-mail: Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr
PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
PAOLO BOUQUET LUCIANO SERAFINI
University of Trento, ITC-IRST,
Trento (Italy) Trento (Italy)
E-mail: bouquet@cs.unitn.it E-mail: serafini@irst.itc.it
PUBLICITY CHAIR LOCAL CHAIR
MASSIMO BENERECETTI FRANCESCA CASTELLANI
University of Trento, University of Trento,
Trento (Italy) Trento (Italy)
E-mail: bene@cs.unitn.it E-mail: fcastell@gelso.unitn.it
Massimo Benerecetti e-mail: bene@cs.unitn.it
Ph.D. Student www:
http://www.cs.unitn.it/~bene
DISA - Universita` di Trento Tel.: +39 461 882322
Via Inama 5, I-38100, Trento, Italy Fax : +39 461 882124
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IV. PROJECTS
IV.C.1.
Fr: Maria Zemankova <mzemanko@nsf.gov>
Re: NSF CAREER and PECASE proposals due 7/22/99
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program and
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Proposal submission deadline: July 22, 1999
For details, see: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf99110
The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that supports junior
faculty within the context of their overall career development. The CAREER
program is intended to support the junior researchers in establishing their
research and in developing an exciting educational program that integrates
their research with educational and/or outreach projects.
I would like to encourage the junior academic researchers to submit CAREER
proposals. In the Information and Data Management (IDM) Program, every
effort is made to support the researchers at the early stages of their
career. Typically, the success rate of CAREER proposals is about 30% (as
opposed to much lower success rates for regular proposals).
PECASE awards recognize outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in
their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers
of knowledge. This Presidential Award is the highest honor bestowed by the
United States Government on scientists and engineers beginning their
independent careers.
Junior researchers with an excellent research record and exciting new ideas
for research and education projects are encouraged to apply for the PECASE
program within the CAREER proposal. Needless to say, the success rate is
quite low for the PECASE submissions. However, the IDM research community
has been very successful in having our excellent junior faculty recognized
in the first 2 years of the PECASE program:
1997:
Renee J. Miller, Ohio State University (now at Univ. of Toronto)
(see http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/pr9765.htm)
1998:
Gregory H. Leazer, Univ. of California - Los Angeles
(see http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/99/pr998.htm)
I hope this year's CAREER proposal submissions will result in launching
many successful careers and provide additional names to the PECASE honor
roll for the IDM Program.
Maria Zemankova, Ph.D.
Program Director, Information and Data Management (IDM)
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115
Arlington, VA 22230
email: mzemanko@nsf.gov
Phone: 703-306-1926
Fax: 703-306-0599
URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm
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