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“Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society”
Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
1. Number of Positions:
One (Global COE Postdoctoral fellow)
* The applicant might be affiliated as “Global COE Assistant Professor”, depending on her/his CV.
2. Job description:
Research work and arrangement in the field of Primordial Knowledge Model Core of our GCOE Program.
3. Terms and Conditions:
(a) 40 hours per week.
(b) Daily paid.
(c) One-year contract with one additional year renewable (until March 31, 2012 at most).
4. Field of Expertise:
Intelligence Science and Technology
5. Eligibility:
Each applicant must satisfy all of the following conditions: S/he must have a Ph.D. degree or an equivalent ability, is not currently employed, and satisfy the conditions below:
(a) S/he must be specialized in Intelligence Science and Technology, has established achievements in a field of Artificial Intelligence, Human Interaction or Cognitive Science, and proceeds research works.
(b) S/he has a good communication skill, being able to lead a project in the field of Primordial Knowledge Model Core of our GCOE Program.
6. Submission:
Candidates are requested to submit the following set of documents in English.
(a) CV with photo, address, phone number, email address, detailed account of academic activity and research grant record.
(b) List of academic publications and reprints of each article.
(c) List of non-academic/popular publications and reprints of each article (at most 3).
(d) Summary of research that the candidate has conducted (about 1500 words).
(e) Summary of research that the candidate intends to carry out the research in the field of Primordial Knowledge Model (about 1500 words).
* All the submitted documents will not be returned.
7. Important dates:
(a) Opening Date: November 1, 2007
(b) Closing Date: February 22, 2008
(c) Formal Hiring Date: April 1, 2008 (or soon after)
8. Selection procedure:
The screening will be based on the documents submitted. Interviews may be held for listed candidates. The position will be closed once it’s filled. In case no appropriate applicants are found, the selection may be cancelled.
9. Submission and Inquiries:
Prof. Toyoaki Nishida
Department of Intelligence Science and Technology
Graduate School of Informatics
Kyoto University
Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
Tel: 075-753-5371 / Fax: 075-753-4961
E-mail: nishida (Please append "@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp" at the end of E-mail address)
* To mail applications, please specify “Application enclosed” with red ink on an envelope and send it by registered mail to the address above. The applicant may send an electronic version prior to the postal mail.
Objective and Overview of the Global COE Program
“Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society”
The objective of our Global Center of Excellence (Global COE) program is to form an international education and research center that fosters Ph.D. students and young researchers through advanced research of informatics, which especially focuses on the research of computer science and information technologies promoting the circulation of knowledge in the coming knowledge society. Major research fields are intelligent information processing, human interfaces, information retrieval, algorithm theories, and humanistic social informatics, but are not limited to these fields. Our previous 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program called “Informatics Center for the Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure” accomplished outstanding achievements in the understanding of humanity and integrated media for knowledge generation, the development of knowledge delivery software platform, and social information systems. Based on these achievements, we aim at establishing an international and interdisciplinary education and research center in the Global COE program, focusing on “computer science and information technology that organize a knowledge-circulating society” to push the frontiers of science.
Information systems as social infrastructures have been improved along with the development of information technology. However, numerous technological and social problems have begun to surface, including unfamiliar human-computer interfaces (information equipment and robots), the threat of unpredictable behavior based on unreliable knowledge acquired from the Internet, and the fragility of social information systems. These problems can be ascribed to the congestion of knowledge circulated among people, communities, and societies. Knowledge becomes useful if one person’s knowledge is linked to another’s and circulated throughout a society. It is important to pursue not only engineering methodology but also new research methodology to facilitate the smooth circulation of knowledge among societies, communities, organizations, and individuals by organizing inter-disciplinary research teams.
Important aspects of information technology for promoting the circulation of knowledge include human interfaces to communicate knowledge, knowledge searches, collaboration based on knowledge sharing in fieldwork, and reliable high-speed computing infrastructures. The present program has therefore established four (education and research) cores: “primordial knowledge model”, “knowledge search”, “field informatics” and “knowledge grid computing” based on interdisciplinary research.
(a) The primordial knowledge model core focuses on the fundamental mechanisms underlying knowledge in co-action. In order to develop better human interfaces for knowledge communication, it integrates multi-modal, brain and biological measurements to discover how knowledge and communication induce each other.
(b) The knowledge search core focuses on new search-engine technologies to enable reliable knowledge to be searched from a variety of information sources, and on social systems and business models related to searching.
(c) The field informatics core focuses on the methodology for constructing social information systems based on collaboration with field experts.
(d) The knowledge grid computing core focuses on the construction of reliable high-speed knowledge-service infrastructures to support the previous three cores.
The four cores enable cooperation between them to form the world's highest level of international education and a research center related to “information technology to promote the circulation of knowledge.”
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