HEFCs JISC-NTI KBS+SALT Workshop
Review of projects and CALL FOR NEW PROPOSALS
3-4 July 1995, Charles Morris Hall, Leeds University, Leeds
OPEN INVITATION:
NTI is a 3-year, 6M-pound programme in Higher Education Institutions to
promote uptake of key Information Technologies, including KBS and SALT.
JISC is on the point of launching a follow-up 3-year Initiative, as yet
unnamed, to build on the successes of the NTI.
You are invited to attend a 24-hour workshop
- to review successful NTI-funded projects in the KBS+SALT field
- to learn about NTI-funded KBS+SALT resources available to HEIs
- to find out about the forthcoming Call for new projects
- to hear NTI committee members' views on future funding priorities
(and maybe to influence them!)
BACKGROUND:
Funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland, and
Wales, the mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee is:
'To stimulate and enable the cost effective exploitation of information
systems and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure
for the UK higher education and research councils communities'
To this end, JISC supports a number of national services and initiatives.
These include the New Technologies Initiative, a 3-year, 6M pound programme
to promote key information technologies in Higher Education institutions;
and a planned follow-up Initiative, as yet unnamed, to consolidate the
successes of the NTI.
This meeting focusses on projects within the area of Knowledge Based Systems
and Speech And Language Technology. The HEFCs' JISC is building on the work
of its predecessor, the old Universities Funding Council's Information Systems
Committee; the UFC ISC supported several national programmes including the
Knowedge Crunching Machine Initiative and the Knowledge Based Systems
Initiative. From 1993, these were subsumed into the HEFCs' New Technologies
Initiative; NTI also funded a number of new projects in KBS and SALT.
The meeting will include presentations of a number of KCMI, KBSI, and new NTI
projects, focussing on KBS+SALT resources generated by the projects which have
wider potential applicability in Higher Education Institutes.
Note that the old PCFC had no equivalent to ISC, so "New Universities" had
no involvement in KCMI and KBSI, and comparatively little new NTI funding.
Proposals and consortia involving the "New Universities" will be particularly
welcome under the new successor Initiative, so POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS FROM
NEW UNIVERSITIES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP.
FURTHER DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:
The workshop will run from midday Monday 3rd July to midday Tuesday 4th July,
at Leeds University, Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Registration (including
lunch on arrival and departure, dinner, bed+breakfast in Charles Morris Hall
student residence) is FREE to the first 50 applicants from UK HEIs,
FIRST COME FIRST SERVED, GBP50 inclusive for others.
For further details and a REGISTRATION FORM, please Email or FAX the workshop
organiser:
Eric Steven Atwell
HEFCs JISC-NTI KBS+SALT Review Workshop
Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
Artificial Intelligence Division, School of Computer Studies
The University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, Yorkshire, England
TEL: 0113-2335761
FAX: 0113-2335468
EMAIL: E.S.Atwell@Leeds.AC.UK