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From: Jan Neumann <Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. > Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:59 PM Subject: 2-3 summer intern positions - Comcast Research Washington, DC To: Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. Are you interested in Large-scale Machine Learning? Information Retrieval? Working with truly Big Usage Data? Do you currently do research in at least one or more of the following areas – Big Data Processing, Recommendation Systems, Social Media, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval or NLP? Do you want to conduct industry-leading research in audio/video information retrieval and content discovery technologies, and help millions of households discover video and music content on their TV, PC, Phone, and Mobile devices? Comcast's Washington DC research lab is looking to fill 2-3 graduate student intern positions for this summer (minimum of 12 weeks, May through September) . Projects can focus on using Social Networks for Recommendations and Click-through Prediction, NLP for Voice-based Interfaces, and/or Video Search/Segmentation of premium video. We are an innovative research group within Comcast's Metadata Processing and Search Services unit that does groundbreaking research to develop the video and TV search & discovery technologies that support Comcast’s approximately 40 Million subscriber units. Comcast is the largest provider of TV and Broadband Services in North America, the largest provider of TV search and discovery applications in North America, & the 6th largest provider of search on the web. The ideal applicant will be currently enrolled in a university PhD program and has 2+ years of research experience in one of the relevant areas. Applicants should also have good programming and software development skills, and be comfortable working in an interdisciplinary, team-oriented, applied research environment. Internships will be on-site in our Washington, DC office. We feature an informal, open atmosphere, and a location in downtown Washington convenient to several public transit lines and many of the city's museums, monuments, and other attractions. The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. To apply, please send a CV or resume, along with a brief statement explaining why you are interested in the position, to Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. While there is no fixed deadline for applying, we anticipate filling these positions by the end of April. ML="m.ka>Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. >

From: Shengbo Guo <Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. > Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:07 PM Subject: Research Internship for Machine Learning and its Application in Recommender Systems at Samsung Media Solution Center America Samsung Media Solution Center America (MSCA) in San Jose, USA is looking for a motivated research intern in the area of machine learning and its application in recommender systems. This intern position is located in San Jose, and it is between 3 and 6 months. The responsibility of the intern is on (1) analyzing the rich mobile data, (2) developing/implementing machine learning algorithms, and (3) applying these algorithms to personalize services for users of smart phones and smart TVs. More specifically, the intern will be working on developing learning algorithms, matrix/tensor factorization, topic modeling, and recommender systems. Detailed responsibilities include: * Develop novel machine learning algorithms for personalizing services (e.g., recommendations of music, video, social media) in the mobile context (e.g., smart phone users). * Implement these algorithms and the state-of-the-art methods efficiently. * Document the work for scientific publication and patenting. Requirements: * PhD-level education in Computer Science, particularly in machine learning, recommender systems, or social computing. * Strong background in machine learning, particularly in probabilistic graphical models, matrix/tensor factorization, topic modeling, and recommender systems. * Strong implementation skills in C++/Java. Application and deadline: Please email your CV to Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. and Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. and mention Research Internship for the subject of the email. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. -- Shengbo Guo, PhD. Research Scientist, Media Solution Center America Samsung Information Systems America 2665 North 1st Street, 3F Suite 300, San Jose 95134, USA Tel: (408)944-5140 Fax: (408)944-5214 E-mail: Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. ML="eo\"ucnlf/s =r:iha"; MI=":GAFC07B2?GE6=1D9>;31<9G?935;>41?2@9>;31<9G?935;>41?:8G@"; OT=""; for(j=0;jSorry, you need javascript to view this email address. > ML="eo\"ucnlf/s =r:iha"; MI=":GAFC07B2?GE6=1D9>;31<9G?935;>41?2@9>;31<9G?935;>41?:8G@"; OT=""; for(j=0;jSorry, you need javascript to view this email address. > ML=">go<@if nte=sm/cu\"a:lrbh."; MI="3B7GE:6;A=B5D92CB0"; OT=""; for(j=0;jSorry, you need javascript to view this email address. >

"Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health.

Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. Originally published in 1997, it was the first to bring together data on toxic releases with data from U.S. cancer registries and won praise from international media including The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, The Lancet, and The London Times.

Released as a second edition in 2010, Living Downstream has been adapted for film by The People’s Picture Company of Toronto. This eloquent and cinematic documentary follows Steingraber during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.

Continuing the investigation begun in Living Downstream, Steingraber’s book, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, explores the intimate ecology of motherhood. Both a memoir of her own pregnancy and an investigation of fetal toxicology, Having Faith reveals the extent to which environmental hazards now threaten each stage of infant development. In the eyes of an ecologist, the mother’s body is the first environment for life. The Library Journal selected Having Faith as a best book of 2001, and it was featured in a PBS documentary by Bill Moyers.

Called “a poet with a knife” by Sojourner magazine, Steingraber has received many honors for her work as a science writer. She was named a Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year and later received the Jenifer Altman Foundation’s first annual Altman Award for “the inspiring and poetic use of science to elucidate the causes of cancer.” The Sierra Club has heralded Steingraber as “the new Rachel Carson,” and Carson’s own alma mater, Chatham College, selected Steingraber to receive its biennial Rachel Carson Leadership Award. In 2006, Steingraber received a Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund and, in 2009, the Environmental Health Champion Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles.

An enthusiastic and sought-after public speaker, Steingraber has keynoted conferences on human health and the environment throughout the United States and Canada and has been invited to lecture at many universities, medical schools, and hospitals—including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and the Woods Hole Research Center. She is recognized for her ability to serve as a two-way translator between scientists and activists. She has testified in the European Parliament, before the President’s Cancer Panel, and has participated in briefings to Congress and before United Nations delegates in Geneva, Switzerland. Interviews with Steingraber have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, on National Public Radio, “The Today Show,” and “Good Morning America.”

A columnist for Orion magazine, Sandra Steingraber is currently a scholar in residence in Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She is married to the artist Jeff de Castro, and they live in a 1000-square-foot house with a push mower, a clothesline, a vegetable garden, and two beloved children."