JSPS Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship: Trends in Information Infrastructure

该奖项为伊利诺伊大学香槟分校的布鲁斯·R·沙茨提供为期一年的日本科学促进会(JSPS)博士后奖学金。他将与日本京都大学社会信息学系的石田彻教授一起进行研究。沙茨博士将研究信息基础设施的趋势。他希望确定是否有网络规律可以预测未来信息检索技术的有效算法的行为。他将研究信息基础设施的演变，将过去、现在和未来的技术放在适当的历史背景下。他将探索从句法到结构再到语义的30年时间。此外，他还将研究网络信息系统的大众基础设施，例如从19世纪的网络到20世纪的空间再到21世纪的模型的300年。他将进一步探讨网络信息检索新技术的哲学基础。这项研究将导致信息技术的新范式，对该领域特别是数字图书馆领域产生广泛影响。获奖者置身于新的研究环境中，将会激发他们的智力。合作还应促进进一步的国际科技合作，并有助于促进亚洲地区优秀学生的数量

0118151SchatzThis award supports a one-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral Fellowship for Bruce R. Schatz of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He will be undertaking his research with Professor Toru Ishida in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University in Japan. Dr. Schatz will be researching trends in the information infrastructure. He hopes to determine if there are Laws of the Net which predict the behavior of effective algorithms for future technologies of information retrieval. He will be researching the evolution of information infrastructure placing the past, present and future technology in its proper historical context. He will explore the 30-year period from syntactic to structure to semantics. In addition, he will be studying the mass infrastructure for network information systems, such as the 300-year period from 19th century Networks to 20th century Spaces to 21st century Models. He will further explore the philosophical foundations of new technologies for information retrieval in the Net.The research should result in new paradigms for information technology, with broad impact on the field especially in the area of digital libraries. The exposure of the awardee to a new research setting will be intellectually stimulating. The collaboration should also facilitate further international cooperation in science and technology, and help to facilitate the number of excellent students from the Asian region to the