IP: The Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology

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The Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology

Applications are invited for the Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology within
the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College, based on South Kensington
campus.

In early 1988, the number of host computers on the internet was around
28,000. By 1999 this had grown to around 43 million, and this year has
reached nearly 150 million. The predicted number is around a billion by
2006, including an enormous growth in internet enabled appliances, sensors,
actuators and communications/network devices. These embedded computing
devices, and services provided by the network, enable mobile users to
interact with internet services thereby providing a ubiquitous computing
environment.

This pervasive environment requires new dynamically programmable network
architectures that support fast service creation and resource management
through a combination of network?aware applications and application?aware
networks. Adaptive networks must be able to support the rapid deployment of
customised services tailored for potentially mobile users in applications
such as medicine, commerce and entertainment. This environment raises
issues of security and privacy due to its ability to track the location and
activities of users. As the internet expands, a wide variety of scaling
issues will have to be addressed at each of the communications layers from
the wireless interface, through the network control to the applications
user?interface. Systems must adapt to the current context of users with
respect to their location, activity and device capabilities. The internet
therefore poses major challenges in order to achieve the required
scalability, adaptability, quality of service and security.

The role of the Chair in Internet Technologies is to drive the convergence
of internet software infrastructure, telecommunications and
computer-relevant electronic engineering. The successful applicant is
expected to provide Imperial College with the research leadership necessary
to investigate and meet some of the challenges of providing a robust
internet technology infrastructure, and of applying internet technologies
to a variety of applications.

Applicants should have proven research leadership experience in one or more
of the following areas:

*    Adaptive internet protocols, and programmable networks and routers
*    Adaptive internet systems architecture
*    Internet security
*    Mobile computing
*    Simultaneous voice, image and data communication in real time
*    Quality of service

An interest in applications of Internet Technology to healthcare and other
sectors would also be an advantage.

Further particulars are available from
Mrs Janet Jones, Appointments Officer (Professors and Readers),
Human Resources Division,
Room 513c, Sherfield Building,
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7
2AZ.  Email: janet.jones () ic ac uk

Applications (8 copies) should be sent to Janet Jones as above.

Closing date: 20 September 2002.

The College is committed to equality of opportunity.


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