Agent Employment Opportunities
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From: schrag@IET.COM (Robert C. Schrag)
Subject: Job -- HPKB research scientist at IET (DC)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:24:36 -0400
IET has an immediate opening for a research scientist to develop
challenge problems for a new Government-sponsored research initiative
in knowledge base technology.
High Performance Knowledge Bases (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. These technologies will
facilitate rapid creation, evolution, and maintenance of much larger
KBs, ontologies and problem solvers than is possible today.
Approximately two dozen leading research institutions will participate
in annual Challenge Problem evaluations and conferences.
IET has been selected to develop challenge problems to focus and
evaluate HPKB technology. Our challenge problem domain involves
defining requirements and exercising knowledge base technology for
intelligent tools in DARPA's Project Genoa to support "Crisis
Management" for decision makers at the highest levels of Government. A
"crisis" is defined as any events occurring on foreign soil which, if
left unchecked, could require the intervention of U.S. military forces.
Intelligent tools might assist in providing crisis indications and
warning, forming crisis action teams, setting up channels of
information gathering, digestion, and dissemination, or formulating
course-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 KB research 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 a related discipline. Excellent written and verbal
communication skills. Ability to work productively in an unstructured
environment with limited supervision. U.S. citizenship. Fluent in one
or more of Lisp, C++, C, Java. Basic or applied research and
development experience in one or more of the following HPKB core
technologies:
knowledge representation,
ontologies and knowledge sharing,
knowledge acquisition,
problem solver synthesis.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Familiarity with the following HPKB
contributing technologies also will be helpful:
situation assessment,
planning and scheduling,
natural language processing,
machine learning,
probabilistic inference,
knowledge-based software development,
uniform information retrieval across heterogenous sources,
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 Dr. Robert
Schrag using the contact information below.
Robert C. Schrag, Ph.D.
Information Extraction & Transport, Inc. (703) 841-3501 Fax
1730 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 and IET's role in it,
please visit <http://www.iet.com/Projects/hpkb.html>.
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