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Research Assistant / Associate

Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
£27,428 - £35,469, Ref: 7228
Based in Milton Keynes
Temporary contract - until 31st January 2012

The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is looking for a Research Assistant/Associate able to develop further the current version of our architecture for supporting proactive reasoning in networks of smart products and to apply it to the project testbeds. This will require both extending the current capabilities of the architecture - e.g., to support a number of types of proactive behaviour, and also to complete the implementation of the architecture, to be able to test it in networks of co-operating physical devices.

You will be working as part of a world-class team of KMi researchers in the field of semantic technologies, in the context of a European project consortium. There will be opportunities to develop your research profile, to travel to give demos and presentations, and to write academic papers.

For detailed information and how to apply, go to www3.open.ac.uk/employment, or email kmi-recruitment@open.ac.uk quoting the reference number.
Closed date: Wednesday 15 June 2011.

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