IBM's Inst. for Advanced Commerce (IAC) will award a one-year fellowship to the student who submits the best doctoral thesis proposal -- possibly ongoing -- in the area of electronic commerce. The award includes a summer position at IBM Research. . [Jay Vegso , CRA Bulletin, 04Jan00.]

PhD student/postdoc travel support is available for the 4th Int. Conf. on Cognitive and Neural Systems, 24-27May00 in Boston. NSF/LIS is sponsoring the conference. Apply to Cynthia Bradford by 28Jan00. . [Nora Sabelli . John C. Cherniavsky , 06Jan00.]

UHuddersfield (UK) is seeking IST Programme partners for the "development of process innovation through the use of hypermedia tools in the creation and transfer of tacit knowledge." , 44 1484 473192, 44 1484 450408 fax. . [ScienceWise Alert, 07Jan00.]

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