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JOB: Summer internship with Comcast (DC)

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
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    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.
    
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Posted: February 22, 2013, 2:54 PM