SUNFEST
Summer Undergraduate Fellowship in Sensor Technologies

A NSF Sponsored REU Program

Program Overview:
• Summer research experience with a stipend of $4,850
• Partial travel support will be provided
• Opportunity to work on an interesting interdisciplinary topic Work under the mentorship of a faculty member and a graduate student
• Participate in workshops on giving effective presentations, writing reports, applying to graduate school, and ethics in engineering and science
• On-campus housing is provided at no or minimal cost
• Period: May 25 to August 3, 2013

Application deadline: February 25, 2013
Areas of research:
• Micro and Nano Electromechanical Structures
• Nanotechnology and materials
• Robotics and Control oriented projects
• Sensors for Medical and Biomedical Applications
• Optical and Vision Sensors

The Diversity Summer Internship Program (DSIP) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health is a 10-week summer program that provides undergraduates with a graduate-level, independent research project in the biomedical or public health field.

Students work under the direct mentoring of accomplished Johns Hopkins researchers, gaining valuable experience in a collaborative, challenging and fun environment.

Computing semantic similarity between words and phrases has important applications in natural language processing, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. There are two prevailing approaches to computing word similarity, based on either using of a thesaurus (e.g., WordNet) or statistics from a large corpus. We provide a hybrid approach combining the two methods that is demonstrated on a web site through two services: one that returns a similarity score for two words or phrases and another that takes a word and shows a ranked list of the most similar words.

Our statistical method is based on distributional similarity and Latent Semantic Analysis. We further complement it with semantic relations extracted from WordNet. The whole process is automatic and can be trained using different corpora. We assume the semantics of a phrase is compositional on its component words and apply an algorithm to compute similarity between two phrases using word similarity.

The algorithms, implementation and data for this work were developed by Lushan Han as part of his research on developing easier ways to query linked open data collections. It was supported by grants from AFOSR (FA9550-08-1-0265), NSF (IIS-1250627) and a give from Microsoft. Contact umbcsim at cs.umbc.edu for more information.

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Internships are available year round, with the flagship Summer League taking place from May-August. All interns must have at least one semester remaining at a college or university to be eligible. Will You Protect This House?

SUMMER LEAGUE:

• 11-week, paid internship consisting of roughly 40 hours/week
• Strong support structure with social and professional networking opportunities
• Access to an impressive teammate discount
• UA Give Back volunteer opportunities
• Training, development and mentoring programs
• Onsite training through Under Armour University classes
• Networking events with former interns and teammates

Applications for the 2013 Summer League internship will be available from Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013, to Friday, February 1, 2013. Please click the link below to find the positions that pertain to you