JOB: Research Scientist at NICTA

National ICT Australia (NICTA) is Australia’s ICT Research Centre of  
Excellence. NICTA brings together world-class researchers and  
professional staff to enhance their skills and build a culture of  
entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired research. This will  
build Australia's ICT capacity into the future.

Position: Web 2.0 Social and Professional Interoperable Networks  
(SPIN) - Researcher

Social Networks and Professional Networks, like FaceBook and LinkedIn,  
have been a true phenomena of the Web era. Capitalizing on the “Web  
2.0” buzz, they have provided innovative spaces for web users to  
interact and share personal and professional information and  
experiences.

The Social & Professional Interoperable Networks (SPIN) Theme Activity  
at NICTA aims to investigate new and innovative solutions to address  
the interoperability challenges faced by these network services,  
specifically:
• Distributed User Profile Management
• Information Snippet Identification
• Notification Feed Mechanisms
• Privacy and Rights Expression and Conflict Detection
• Mobile Presence Exploitation

For an overview of the SPIN Industry Challenges for Social and  
Professional Networks, please access:
   <http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/papers/nicta-position-paper.pdf>

Applications: Please visit NICTA Careers to view the criteria  
essential to this role and apply online:
   <http://nicta.com.au/about/careers>

Closing date: 8 February 2009

Cheers...
Dr Renato Iannella
Principal Scientist, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Level 5, Axon Building #47, Staff House Rd, St Lucia, QLD, 4072,  
AUSTRALIA
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