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PROLEARN Academy Newsletter 02-04-2007


Apr 02, 2007

Dear reader,

this is the release of the weekly PROLEARN Academy Newsletter. With this approach we wish to inform you respecting the news in PROLEARN Academy about which are the new added elements, which are the events organized for the next week and some information about the projects registered in PROLEARN Academy.


*** News


EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium 2007
Sent the: 2007-03-26
EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium 2007 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline June 1st, 2007, Crete, Greece, September 17-18, 2007

PROLEARN Summer School Registration is open
Sent the: 2007-03-29
The on-line registration for the PROLEARN summer school 2007 is open for accepted students and instructors .

EC-TEL 2007 paper deadline extended until April 15, 2007
Sent the: 2007-03-30
EC-TEL'07 - Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Creating new learning experiences on a global scale, 17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece - http://www.ectel07.org Due to many requests, the following deadline has been extended: Paper short paper, poster submission deadline: April 15, 2007 (FIRM) - The chairhelper submission system is open at http://www.know-center.tugraz.at/chairhelper/ectel07/submission -

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/News


*** New Call For Papers


Advances in Web-based Learning (AWBL) Book Series
Call-Art: Publication, Paper submission deadline: 2007-04-30
CALL FOR EDITED BOOK PROPOSALS: Advances in Web-based Learning (AWBL) Book Series - Publisher: IGI Global, Series Editor-in-Chief: Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece

EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium 2007
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: 2007-06-01
EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium 2007 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline June 1st, 2007, Crete, Greece, September 17-18, 2007, http://www.ectel07.org/

SGS'07
Call-Art: Workshop, Paper submission deadline: 2007-04-30
International Workshop on Social Space and Geographic Space SGS'07 (http://www.geosensor.net/sgs) - 19 September 2007, Melbourne, Australia, in conjunction with the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'07) (http://www.cosit.info/)

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/cfps


*** New job offers


GOOGLE@US: RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN LARGE-SCALE DATA MINING

RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN LARGE-SCALE DATA MINING In addition to previous announced positions at Beijing, applications are invited for several research-scientist positions at Google Mountain View, USA. The successful applicant is expected to perform research activities on large-scale data mining on imagery/video/text data and on social networks.

Fully Funded PhD Positions in Information Retrieval and Text Mining

The Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano (USI) in Switzerland is actively expanding its research into information retrieval and text mining from news archives, news streams and blogs and is looking for versatile, highly motivated PhD candidates.

PhD Projects on Semantic Web Technologies at the Knowledge Media Institute

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University in UK is seeking applications for full-time, 3-year research studentships on PhD topics related to the Semantic Web.

Two postdoctoral positions in IR at the University of Lugano (CH)

Post Doctoral Position in Adaptive Distributed Information Retrieval Post Doctoral Position in Information Retrieval and Text Mining

There is additional information in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/jobs


*** PROLEARN Academy - Measure


Our auto observation tool for scientific communities contains at present 367 projects, of which 42 are newsfeeds, 78 newsletters, 178 web sites and 69 mailinglists. The number of catched entries totals 5590 for the feeds, of which 0 were retrieved last week. For the newsletters totals 1695 entries, of which 23 were retrieved last week and for the mailinglists 46145 entries, of which 727 last week.

The top mailinglist project last week was LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange, with 238 entries, 75 less than the top-project of the week before - LM_NET: Library media specialist information exchange.

There is additional information about the projects in http://www.prolearn-academy.org/mediabase

We are continuously enlarging our project database.



*** No new projects were, unfortunately, added last week.