Zoomboard—a miniscule keyboard that zooms when you tap it—could make it easier to type on smart watches.

It seems like everyone is building a smart watch lately. Pebble ran a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year for its e-paper watch; Samsung has confirmed it is making one; and both Apple and Microsoft are thought to be developing their own versions, too (see “Smart Watches”).

The Advanced Technology Lab at the Samsung R&D Center San Jose, CA is offering research internship positions for qualified PhD students. Responsibilities will include:

• Working with a team of experienced researchers to devise innovative and practical solutions to extract opinions and emotions from text for question answering and recommender systems.
• Implementing the solutions as working prototypes.

The qualified candidate will possess knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Machine learning and statistical text mining for social media data such as Twitter and user reviews.
• Sentiment Analysis
• Information retrieval techniques and software including Elasticsearch.
• Document summarization techniques.

Experience in Java is required. Familiarity with JavaScript is a plus. PhD candidates in computer science, electrical engineering, or related fields are preferred.

Samsung R&D emphasizes an "Innovation through passion" philosophy and thrives in a fast-pace, results-driven environment. Team members will proactively participate in internal collaborations and constructive engagement with the academic and research community. Interns will work with a dynamic and passionate group of top-class scientists and engineers with a broad spectrum of research skills: semantic web, machine learning, social network analysis, big data and data analytics. We also encourage interns to publish research result at reputable venues.

Interested candidates should send their resume to Justin Martineau at Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.

The Advanced Technology Lab at the Samsung R&D Center San Jose, CA is offering research internship positions for qualified PhD students. Responsibilities will include:

• Working with a team of experienced researchers to devise innovative and practical solutions to extract opinions and emotions from text for question answering and recommender systems.
• Implementing the solutions as working prototypes.

The qualified candidate will possess knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Machine learning and statistical text mining for social media data such as Twitter and user reviews.
• Sentiment Analysis
• Information retrieval techniques and software including Elasticsearch.
• Document summarization techniques.

Experience in Java is required. Familiarity with JavaScript is a plus. PhD candidates in computer science, electrical engineering, or related fields are preferred.

Samsung R&D emphasizes an "Innovation through passion" philosophy and thrives in a fast-pace, results-driven environment. Team members will proactively participate in internal collaborations and constructive engagement with the academic and research community. Interns will work with a dynamic and passionate group of top-class scientists and engineers with a broad spectrum of research skills: semantic web, machine learning, social network analysis, big data and data analytics. We also encourage interns to publish research result at reputable venues.

Interested candidates should send their resume to Justin Martineau at Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.