[Air-l] researchers ???
ren at aldermangroup.com
ren at aldermangroup.com
Thu May 6 02:37:10 PDT 2004
Hamish> So saying "internet researcher" is so broad as to be
almost meaningless without further qualification?
But maybe that’s the point. 20 years ago ‘internet
researcher’ would have been meaningless as no one had heard
of the internet, possibly 10 years ago it would have applied
to people that work somewhere in the lower levels of the
protocol stack – today it means anything you like.
Though next long job title I have I think I’m going to insist
it has the phrase ‘Interweb thingy’ in it.
Ren
www.renreynolds.com
terranova.blogs.com
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:21:49 +0100
>From: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] researchers ???
>To: air-l at aoir.org
>
>The problem with "internet" is that it is such a big term -
from
>the IP protocol to community groups. So saying "internet
researcher"
>is so broad as to be almost meaningless without further
qualification?
>
>For example, I work with people at BT labs on a project
called SEKT
>(http://sekt.semanticweb.org/) that develops semantic
technology for
>knowledge management; I work with people at the BBC on a
project
>called PrestoSpace (http://prestospace.ina.fr) about
preserving and
>accessing audiovisual media in digital libraries. Just
accross campus
>from me are historians busily transcribing 18th Century
court reports
>for on-line access. Upstairs people are modelling complex
mathematical
>entities called X-machines that may help verify the
correctness of
>net servers. All are clearly "internet research", but are
quite
>diverse - and that's just stuff that I personally have at
the top of
>my head.
>
>I suppose that if you work on the statistics of net usage,
or similar,
>then you might end up shortenning your description to net
researcher,
>but it wouldn't be very meaningful?
>
>Best,
>
>Hamish
>
>
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>
>ren at aldermangroup.com wrote:
>> I’ve never been ‘internet researcher’ but I used to
>> be ‘global head of commercial internet strategy’ when I
was
>> at (at the time) the worlds biggest ‘isp’.
>>
>> Previous to that I was at British Telecommunications who
have
>> a large research facility at Martlesham Heath in the UK
and
>> there I’m sure there were entire departments called
internet
>> research and room-on-room of people called internet
>> researchers – the kinds of stuff done in the labs ranged
from
>> basic research into things like protocols (resulting in
RFCs
>> etc) all the way up to commercial applications of
technology,
>> and, pause – futurology, shudder.
>>
>> BT labs home page is here: http://www.labs.bt.com, I’m
sure
>> their PR people would be happy to help if you were
interested
>> in job titles and stuff there.
>>
>> Ren
>> www.renreynolds.com
>> terranova.blogs.com
>>
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>
>>>Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:30:03 +0930
>>>From: ET <et at tarik.com.au>
>>>Subject: [Air-l] researchers ???
>>>To: air-l at aoir.org
>>>
>>>hi all,
>>>
>>>just a question for the groups members - hopefully some
may
>>
>> wish to reply.
>>
>>>The "modern" internet has now been going for about 10
years.
>>>As a result we have many new professions...
>>>we have web designers, programmers and a host of
specialist
>>
>> IT positions.
>>
>>>Does anyone in here work full time in a position that is
>>
>> called
>>
>>>"Internet Researcher" or that one could take to be, from
the
>>
>> job
>>
>>>responsibilities, to be a full time internet researcher?
>>>Does anyone know of another person who has the above role?
>>>I am particularly interested to know if anyone works for a
>>
>> company in
>>
>>>such a role.
>>>
>>>thanks in advance for your time,
>>>
>>>regards
>>>
>>>Eero Tarik
>>>Adelaide
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
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