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Hello Ravindra Sir,

Greetings of the day!

Iv been a fortunate student of the CSE department SDMCET batch-2004, I'm currently working with KPIT Technologies (earlier known as KPIT Cummins Ltd) and located in the US. 

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HathiTrust Research Center Protoyping Projects

Dear Colleagues, please forward as you see fit.

The HathiTrust Research Center is seeking proposals for prototyping projects to define and implement a tool or service that will help scholars better identify and select relevant resources at scale from the HathiTrust corpus and/or facilitate the construction of large-scale worksets useful for scholarly analyses.  Grants of $40,000 will be offered to each of four successful respondents to be conducted over a nine-month period beginning April 2014. Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project (WCSA) is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A complete copy of the RFP is attached to this email and available online at: http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu/worksets/?page_id=20.

RFP Schedule:

RFP Available: 22 November 2013
Letters of Intent Due (preferred): 16 December 2013
Final Proposals Due: 13 January 2014
Shortlist Meeting Invitations Issued: 20 January 2014
Shortlist Meeting: 20 February 2014
Award Notification: No later than 15 March 2014

Program Description (see the full RFP for more detail):

The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus (> 10 million volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines. To tap the analytic potential of this large and diverse corpus, to tame it and make it useful to them, many researchers need the wherewithal to gather together, into a kind of personal digital carrel, cohesive and coherent subsets of HT texts (potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of volumes or parts of volumes) amenable to the in depth forms of analysis they want to do. The attributes on which they seek to collocate digitized texts are not always recorded in standard bibliographic descriptions.

The HTRC will collaborate with four independent sub-awardees in conducting individual prototyping projects to develop and validate the potential of specific algorithms, services and/or tools that can enable the creation of large and small scale worksets of digitized texts and parts of digitized texts for scholarly analysis in ways not currently feasible. We are seeking proposals from engaged teams of digital humanists, librarians and computer scientists. We anticipate that the proposals received will approach the problem in a variety of different and complementary ways. Proposed prototype experiments must respond to real scholar needs and requirements.

Respondents are urged to contact htrc.wcsa@gmail.com, in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support with a member of the project team. Prime award project PIs are:

J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
Tim Cole, University Library, University of Illinois
Beth Plale, Data to Insight Center, Indiana University

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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839

. SBP 2014 Grand Data Challenge

Grand Data Challenge of 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP14)

April 2 – April 4, 2014, UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA

http://sbp-conference.org/

SBP is pleased to offer a challenge problem again in 2014, and we expect it to build on the successes of previous years' challenge problems. The theme of the SBP 2014 Challenge is how to better demonstrate the power and value of "big data" in the social sciences.

Challenge Overview

We invite participants to explore the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT), an expansive set containing a quarter-billion geo-referenced political news events covering the whole world since 1979, describing who did what to whom when and where, and use GDELT to

• Demonstrate the applications of spatial, temporal and network methodologies and their interactions,

• Identify the latent "influencers" of social movement and media-based political competition,

• Experimentally validate and improve models for social phenomena,

• Visualize social movements of different types on all levels at a glance,

• Propose solutions to societal problems including health care and public safety using data- and model- based reasoning, and

• To suggest new creative applications using the GDELT data.

Important Dates

* Submission deadline: December 20, 2013 (23:59 PST)

* Notification of Winners: January 17, 2014

Contacts:

For more information, please contact Wen Dong at  wendong@gmail.com,  or   

Katherine Chuang at katychuang@gmail.com, or Kevin Xu at kevinxu@outlook.com . 

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Master of science in Information Systems with concentration in Information Security

One of a kind global education experience

Two Institutions, Two Years, Nine Months International exposure

Visit  http://www.vcu.edu/about   

or contact

saramaswamy@vcu.edu 

Queens College/CUNY Faculty Position in Information Science

Assistant Professor in Information Science – Fall 2014

Queens College, Graduate School of Library & Information Studies

Queens College, City University of New York, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the area of Information Science. Qualified candidates are sought with research and teaching expertise as well as applied knowledge in two of the following areas:

Data Management and Curation

Content Management Systems

Information/Systems Architecture

Usability

Metadata

PhD in library/information science or a related field at the time of appointment. An earned graduate degree in library science is required. Preference will be given to applicants who have familiarity with the ALA accreditation process.

For detailed information and application materials visit: www.cuny.edu/employment.html  (Job #9136)

Completed application packets, including cover letter describing scholarly interests, curriculum vitae and 500 word essay addressing "Future Directions in LIS Education" must be submitted online, as one document.

For further information regarding application procedures contact colleen.cool@qc.cuny.edu.

The City University of New York is an EO/AA Employer

] CFD: WWW'14 (Seoul, Korea) Call for Demos

CALL FOR DEMOS

23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)

Seoul, Korea

April 7-11, 2014

=== Important Dates ===

Paper Submission Deadline : Dec. 22, 2013

Notifications of Acceptance : Jan. 26, 2014

Final Submission Deadline for Camera-ready Version : Feb. 5, 2014

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The Demo Track allows researchers and practitioners to demonstrate new systems in a dedicated session. Demo submissions must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference. Demos from the traditional research community are of course strongly encouraged, but proposals from other activity areas are also welcome, as we envisage to open demo sessions to the larger public. Software (including games or learning platforms) and hardware demos will also be considered, as long as they show innovative use of Web-based techniques.

Each demo submission must make clear which aspects of the system will be demonstrated, and how. They should strive to state the significance of the contribution to Web technology or applications. Demos will be peer-reviewed by members of the Demo Track Program Committee, who will judge the originality, significance, quality, and clarity of each submission.

At least one author of each accepted demo paper must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the demo sessions (please see the Conference Policies). Each accepted demo paper will be allocated no more than four pages in the conference proceedings. Demo authors are not required to transfer copyright.

Submission Guidelines

Demo submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template and are limited to four pages. Submissions must be in PDF and must be done through the EasyChair system.

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www14demo

To better identify the value of demos, as well as to reach out to external audiences, we also encourage authors to submit a pointer to a screencast, using web-accessible platforms such as Vimeo or Youtube. The maximum duration of screencasts is 10 minutes.

Demo Track Chairs

Jaewoo Kang (Korea University, Korea) kangj@korea.ac.kr

Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Postdoctoral Fellowship Available at NCBI

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A postdoctoral research position is available in the research group headed by Dr. Zhiyong Lu at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).  Dr. Lu's laboratory is mainly interested in developing and applying computational approaches to natural language text in biomedicine, as well as large-scale omics data. His recent research in biomedical text analysis has focused on various problems in biocuration (e.g. BioCreative challenge series), computational drug discovery (e.g. PSB sessions on Drug Repurposing), and online access to literature and consumer health information. The successful applicant will build and apply new methods to such research problems and also have the opportunity to contribute to the improvement of information access for users of NCBI resources.

Qualifications: Applicants must have training with a strong emphasis on computation and familiarity with statistical methods in data and text mining and/or machine learning. A PhD degree or equivalent in bioinformatics, computer science, computational linguists or a closely related field is required. Strong programming and data analysis skills are essential. Applicants need not be US citizens or Permanent Residents.

Appointments are initially for two years, with the option of extension based on performance.

To apply: please submit your curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to Dr. Lu at Zhiyong.Lu@nih.gov<mailto:Zhiyong.Lu@nih.gov>. The position is open until filled.

Selection for this position will be based solely on merit, with no discrimination for non-merit reasons such as race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, politics, marital status, physical or mental handicap, age, or membership or non-membership in an employee organization. Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.

NIH is an Equal Opportunity Employer


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LU, Zhiyong PhD
Earl Stadtman Investigator
NCBI/NLM/NIH
RM1003A, Bldg 38A
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, 20894
Phone: 301-594-7089
Email: zhiyong.lu@nih.gov<mailto:zhiyong.lu@nih.gov>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Lu/

Open position: NLP, IR, AI, Web Development

The "Health On the Net (HON) Foundation" in Geneva is announcing an opened position in:

NLP, IR, AI, Web Development

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Type: fulltime

HON is offering at wide range of services to citizens, medical professionals and health care providers. The HON web development team makes HON services available to millions of users in order to access health websites respecting a set of quality criteria: the HONcode. The team combines software development, system administration expertise in a cloud environment to run multilingual services available in 102 countries. We are looking for a web software developer with the extensive knowledge in Natural Language Processing to contribute to major development in a multidisciplinary team.

Key responsibilities:

• manage a large scale crawling robot and search engine dedicated to health sites
• NLP research and development, from research to production
• develop and implement collaborative platforms
• act as software support on various projects (CMS, log analysis etc.)

Essential qualifications:

• Master degree in computer science or related field with a background in NLP, with at least 2 years of experiences, or provable very strong programming achievement (any open source contribution is a plus).
• Problem solving skills and ability to think laterally;
• Look for opportunities to improve or optimize systems;
• Managing time and priorities in a rapidly changing, flexible environment;
• Participating in code reviews and support of peers in a collaborative agile environment (SCRUM, JIRA);
• Creating and maintaining user and developer documentation;
• Communicating, training, sharing knowledge and ideas as well as, issues and training/resource needs with others;
• Unit testing of code to deliver projects of robust quality; 
• Applied Agile methodology experience & continuous testing/integration;

Frontend development qualifications:

• programming language: Groovy/Grails.
• Ajax/jQuery/Javascript

Backend development qualifications:

• Java, Perl
• Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge in Solr/Lucene;

You are responsible and organized; creative and proactive.

You are fluent in French with a very good knowledge of written and spoken English, German is a plus.

Please submit your CV, letter of motivation, and salary expectations toHON-Job@healthonnet.org

Call to Qualified HCI PhD Applicants

CHI Announcement: Call to Qualified HCI PhD Applicants

The PhD Program in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC), Indianapolis (IUPUI) is seeking outstanding applicants to join our program in Fall 2014. Applications are due March 1, 2014. http://soic.iupui.edu/graduate/hci/phd/

THE PROGRAM: The Ph.D. program in HCI resides in the Department of Human-Centered Computing, a new and growing department in SoIC that includes HCI, Media Arts and Science, and Informatics. HCC and specifically our program in human-computer interaction strongly promote interdisciplinary research at the cutting edge of computing, encouraging collaborations with colleagues in the health and life sciences and the other disciplines housed within the School, as well as with faculty from other units across the IUPUI campus and from the broader Indianapolis business community.

THE SCHOOL: The IU School of Informatics and Computing has been a pioneer, establishing the first program in Informatics in the nation and the first to house a HCI program. SoIC offers three Ph.D. programs (Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, and Human-Computer Interaction), four Master's programs (Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Media Arts & Science), and three Baccalaureate programs (Informatics, Health Information Administration, and Media Arts & Science). Nearly 1,000 students are enrolled in the school's programs, with faculty and students enjoying state-of-the art facilities and access to Indiana University's extensive investments in scholarly cyberinfrastructure.

THE UNIVERSITY: SoIC is situated on the IUPUI campus, also known as the Indiana University Medical Center Campus. The campus is home to the IU School of Medicine, the second largest medical school in the US, as well as four hospitals. During FY 2011-12, the IUPUI campus was awarded over $400M in 2010 for funded research, much of it in the health and life sciences. The campus is located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, a thriving, mid-sized Midwestern city with abundant cultural, sports, and historical attractions and home to a number of high-tech companies with relationships to the School, including Eli Lilly & Company, ExactTarget. IU Health.

The research areas currently pursued by our HCI faculty include:

·     Ubiquitous computing and pervasive sensing for healthcare

·     Medical and clinical system design

·     Philanthropic informatics

·     Search user interfaces and information-seeking behavior

·     User experience modeling and design for web, mobile, and wall-sized computing

·     Team cognition and technology-enabled decision science

·     Android science and developmental robotics

·     Accessibility for the blind and visually impaired

FUNDING opportunities for students are available. Our faculty's research is supported by the NSF, NIH, Google, the MacArthur Foundation, and other sources.

For more details on the program, our faculty, and our admission requirements, please visit our website, http://soic.iupui.edu/graduate/hci/phd/, or contact the Program Director directly by email: Anthony Faiola, Ph.D., MFA – faiola@iupui.edu.

Hiring B.E. / B.Tech Freshers

	. Emerge as a Winner, Merge with SPI! Walk-in drive for the batch of 2013 Engineering Graduates Eligibility Criteria: ·        2013 batch of BE/BTech belonging to CS,IT,E&C,EEE,IS ·        Minimum of 65% in BE/Btech ·        Candidates should be flexible with location, skill, domain and adapt to required working hours. ·        Strong written and oral communication skills. Documents to be carried along with: ·        Updated Resume ·        Latest Passport size Photograph Mode of Interview: Aptitude Test Date: 9th Nov 2013 - Saturday Time: 10 AM – 12 PM Venue: SPIcity, 316-318,(P) Hebbal Industrial Area, Mysore – 16. Selected candidates from the Aptitude test will be eligible for next round of selection process on the same day. With Best Regards, Team HR
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Xerox Research Internship Position -- Social Media Analytics

The Xerox Research Center Webster in New York has multiple internship opportunities in large-scale text mining, information retrieval and social interaction and graph analysis. Successful candidates will be expected to conduct research, design, develop, and deploy state-of-art, scalable text mining and social analytics for innovative applications in urban informatics, personalized communications, and other industry verticals (e.g. healthcare, transportation, financial services, etc.). Applicants will be expected to work with large-scale online social media data set and fuse them with enterprise data sources (such as sensory log data, transaction data and web click stream data, image/video data) to uncover and predict value-driven insights to support on-demand, real-time analytic services.

A (ongoing) Ph.D.  in computer science or related field is required. Knowledge of fundamentals of information retrieval, natural language processing, text mining, machine learning, conversation analysis is highly desired. Proficiency in publicly available data analytics toolkits (such as WEKA, MALLET, etc.) and experience in manipulating and analyzing large data sets using existing technologies such as Hadoop, high performance computing platform will be a big plus. The applicant should also have strong skills in explaining and interpreting the analytic models and outcomes in both research and application contexts.

-Role/Responsibilities

Invent, design and prototype novel next-generation technologies in the areas of big data and social media analytics, information retrieval, natural language processing, and text mining. Collaborate closely with other R&D scientists and engineers in a multi-disciplinary work environment. Work with existing “intrapreneurship� and business teams to develop and help commercialize highly adaptive and robust models.

-Requirements

1.            A (ongoing) Ph.D. in computer-science or related field, and with a strong record of scholarly publications.

2.            Experience in industrial research labs a big plus.

3.            Strong knowledge and skills in rapid prototype programming languages, such as Python, Java, and/or R.

4.            Candidates should possess the interest to work in multi-disciplinary environments, and should have the desire to see their ideas realized in practice.

5.            Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills.

Interested candidates can send their resume to Sumit.Bhatia@xerox.com. Please put "Internship Application" in the subject line.

Open Rank Faculty Position: iSchool @ University of Illinois

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (GSLIS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

OPEN RANK FACULTY POSITION

GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. We are particularly interested in candidates specializing in the digital humanities, but strong candidates in any related area involving the organization, management, preservation, retrieval, and analysis of information are encouraged to apply.  In particular, we seek candidates who can contribute to our active programs in digital libraries, data curation, and data analytics. Applications from members of under-represented groups working in these or other areas of information science are particularly welcome.

GSLIS is a highly interdisciplinary unit and the successful candidate could hold a degree in information science; a field in the arts, humanities or the social sciences; computer science; or other relevant disciplines. Applicants' specific backgrounds could include digital humanities, computational linguistics, semantic web technologies, cultural informatics, and digital archives.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the world's leading research universities. GSLIS, the top-ranked school of library and information science, is an established national leader in both information science research and the preparation of information professionals. GSLIS offers MS and PhD degrees, a Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS), and participates in the University's undergraduate informatics minor, informatics PhD, and MS in Bioinformatics.  For MS and CAS students, GSLIS also offers an award-winning online option (LEEP). GSLIS faculty and students are involved in many initiatives across campus, including collaborations with world-renowned units such as the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS). Our close relationship with scientific and cultural institutions ensures that our research shapes practice and engages critical contemporary problems.

GSLIS is the institutional home of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), a leader in research and education on the use of data and technology in scholarship. CIRSS supports an active portfolio of research projects with a wide variety of institutional partners, collaborating with national data centers, other iSchools, leading research libraries, and cyberinfrastructure initiatives.  CIRSS sponsors specializations for both MS and PhD students in data curation and in socio-technical data analytics.  In addition to CIRSS, GSLIS houses the Center for Children's Books, the Center for Digital Inclusion, and the HathiTrust Research Center.  The breadth of interest evinced by these initiatives speaks to the collegial and collaborative environment that new GSLIS faculty members will experience.

Appointment will begin August 16, 2014 or as negotiated. Rank is open, and salary will be commensurate with qualifications. A Ph.D. degree or equivalent is required although candidates near completion will be considered. To apply, create a candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of application, curriculum vitae, short research statement, and a list of three references including contact information. To ensure full consideration applicants must apply by November 15, 2013.

More information about GSLIS programs and faculty can be found at http://www.lis.illinois.edu. For further information regarding application procedures, contact Candy Edwards (cledward@illinois.edu, 217 244-3809). Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

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Miles Efron

Associate Professor

Graduate School of Library & Information Science

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign