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.

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Metron Aviation is looking to expand its ranks to support the growing need of Air Traffic Management (ATM) research, product development and mission analysis. Strengthened by the Airbus acquisition, Metron Aviation’s long-term strategy is to support and accelerate ATM programs that will dramatically improve global air transportation capacity, efficiency and environmental sustainability.

Metron Aviation provides advanced research, Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM), airspace design and energy and environmental solutions to Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP), airlines and airports. Metron Aviation is a prime contractor on System Engineering 2020 (SE-2020), the FAA’s strategic program for implementing NextGen, and is performing advanced research and development work on EUROCONTROL’s Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program.

Metron Aviation's Commercial Products and Solutions division provides commercial ATFM solutions that optimize airspace and airport capacity for customers around the world including Airservices Australia, South Africa’s ATNS, Delta Air Lines and FedEx. We are seeking a Software Engineer Intern to help support our projects during Summer 2013. Metron Aviation is a collaborative environment that fosters advanced research, concept exploration, product development and interaction with the nation’s leading aviation subject matter experts.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software according to requirements and project deadlines
• Learn new technologies and apply as appropriate to the design and development of software projects
• Communicate effectively with team members and internal clients regarding project goals/status, project support, and technology capabilities
• Develop aviation domain knowledge to further knowledge across the company and to add insight on projects

Requirements:

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related discipline
• Experience with Java a plus
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Candidate must be able to pass a background investigation and to obtain a Position of Public Trust designation

This is a paid internship position. Metron Aviation, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE M/F/D/V

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Metron Aviation is looking to expand its ranks to support the growing need of Air Traffic Management (ATM) research, product development and mission analysis. Strengthened by the Airbus acquisition, Metron Aviation’s long-term strategy is to support and accelerate ATM programs that will dramatically improve global air transportation capacity, efficiency and environmental sustainability.

Metron Aviation provides advanced research, Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM), airspace design and energy and environmental solutions to Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP), airlines and airports. Metron Aviation is a prime contractor on System Engineering 2020 (SE-2020), the FAA’s strategic program for implementing NextGen, and is performing advanced research and development work on EUROCONTROL’s Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program.

Metron Aviation's Commercial Products and Solutions division provides commercial ATFM solutions that optimize airspace and airport capacity for customers around the world including Airservices Australia, South Africa’s ATNS, Delta Air Lines and FedEx. We are seeking a Software Engineer Intern to help support our projects during Summer 2013. Metron Aviation is a collaborative environment that fosters advanced research, concept exploration, product development and interaction with the nation’s leading aviation subject matter experts.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software according to requirements and project deadlines
• Learn new technologies and apply as appropriate to the design and development of software projects
• Communicate effectively with team members and internal clients regarding project goals/status, project support, and technology capabilities
• Develop aviation domain knowledge to further knowledge across the company and to add insight on projects

Requirements:

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related discipline
• Experience with Java a plus
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Candidate must be able to pass a background investigation and to obtain a Position of Public Trust designation

This is a paid internship position. Metron Aviation, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE M/F/D/V

apply online

Registration is open for a new session of the HTML5 training course. Experienced trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. Topics include video, animations, forms, and APIs to create location-based services, and offline applications. Training starts 3 June and lasts six weeks; students receive a certificate upon course completion. Register before May 6 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus, the W3C online training for Web developers.

Enthusiasm for WWDC 2013 has been incredible, with tickets selling out in record time. For those who can’t join us in San Francisco, you can still take advantage of great WWDC content, as we’ll be posting videos of all our sessions during the conference. We’ll also be hitting the road this fall with Tech Talks in a city near you. Hope to see you there.

Enthusiasm for WWDC 2013 has been incredible, with tickets selling out in record time. For those who can’t join us in San Francisco, you can still take advantage of great WWDC content, as we’ll be posting videos of all our sessions during the conference. We’ll also be hitting the road this fall with Tech Talks in a city near you. Hope to see you there.

Hilltop Institute Senior Research Analyst Michael T. Abrams, MPH, presented his work on substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to the Maryland Addictions Directors Council on on March 11, 2013. The work focuses on coordination of care and cost saving opportunities evident in the federal Affordable Care Act, and traceable within Maryland’s Medicaid program.

On April 10, 2013, Abrams presented a description of three UMBC-centered research projects examining supported employment for persons with serious mental illness at the Behavioral Health Research Conference. The University of Maryland Department of Psychiatry and Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration sponsored the conference. The audience included statewide policymakers and other stakeholders.

Two of the projects are federally funded and direct collaborations between The Hilltop Institute and the UMBC Department of Public Policy, and the third was the dissertation project of Brent Gibbons (Public Policy PhD candidate). All three studies are under the leadership of David Salkever, professor of public policy. To learn more about these projects, contact Abrams at mabrams@hilltop.umbc.edu.

I hate feeling tethered to the internet. So why do I love FreedomPop?

Rarely do I, even in casual conversation, refer to something as the “best thing ever.” And yet I’m fairly certain I’ve used that epithet a few dozen times in gushing to friends, acquaintances, and strangers about my latest toy: the Freedom Stick 4G from FreedomPop. “Go ahead!” I dare them, as they scatter to the edge of the sidewalk. “Try and name a better thing!”

A response to Jason Pontin’s essay on free speech by the author of Principles for a Free Society.

Jason Pontin has written a perceptive analysis of a timeless question:  what changes in law need to be adopted in order to account for technological advances (see “Free Speech in the Era of Its Technological Amplification”)? In answering that question, he takes the right approach by taking up John Stuart Mill’s harm principle, which at its core makes this claim: