Web Development Intern

Job Title:
Web Development Intern

Opportunity Type:
Internship

Description:
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate would be someone with a working knowledge of open source technologies, how web applications and databases work, and dependable transportation. Above all else, an innate curiosity, a drive to learn more and an excellent work ethic.

Job Description:
Journalistic is a publishing company, with two major focuses: QSR Magazine and Fine Books & Collections Magazine. We have 15 employees on staff, ranging from art to editors to accounting and lastly, me - the IT Manager. I keep busy with the technical efforts to support the company,from developing web applications, running reports and supporting fellow co-workers with their computer questions/problems. I'm looking for a reliable (and pliable) intern to help me out.

You will be mentored by me (and I hope to learn a thing or two from you, too) and get some really great real-world experience. You will not get any mundane tasks and your work will be appreciated. As an example, our previous interns developed e-commerce applications, plugins and internal support tools.

We're ideally looking for a Junior or Senior who will spend the year with us and there may be a full-time job for you after you graduate.


Jason Purdy
jason@journalistic.com
Journalistic, Inc.
http://www.qsrmagazine.com
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com

Jobs at Emergent

Several open software positions at Emergent. Generally speaking,
we're looking for smart folks who know 3D graphics and C++.

Here are details:

http://www.emergent.net/en/About/Careers/Employment-Listings/

Post Doctoral Position in Database/Interactive Marketing in Dartmouth

The Spiegel Program in Interactive Marketing is seeking applications for a post doctoral position in database/interactive marketing. This position is ideal for a scholar with a recent Ph.D. in Statistics, Computer Science, or Economics, who is interested in pursuing an academic career in business, specifically marketing. The post doc will work on research projects related to the growing and exciting field of database marketing / interactive marketing. Topics might include: Internet marketing, customer acquisition strategies, customer churn management, customer lifetime value, loyalty programs, personalization and customization, cross-selling methods, optimal contact models, social networks, and multichannel customer management.

The Tuck School at Dartmouth College is one of the world’s leading business schools, regularly ranked in the top ten in various polls. Located in bucolic Hanover, New Hampshire, it combines an attractive living environment with a professional culture intent on producing cutting edge research. Please see the Tuck website, http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/, for further information.

Selection Criteria

Required:

* Ph.D. in Statistics, Computer Science, or Economics as of July, 2010.
* Expertise in quantitative techniques relevant to database / interactive marketing.
* Interest in pursuing an academic career in marketing.

Helpful but not required:

* Prior experience in topics related to database / interactive marketing.
* Access to data suitable for database marketing / interactive marketing projects.
* Ideas for particular projects of interest.



Duration of Appointment and Compensation

The appointment begins July 1, 2010, and runs for at least one year but no more than two years. The annual salary is $65,000, plus a research budget and fringe benefits including health care.

Faculty Mentor

The faculty mentor for this position is Scott A. Neslin, Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School. Professor Neslin is a specialist in database marketing / interactive marketing. He is co-author of the book, Database Marketing: Analyzing and Managing Customers (2008, Springer). He has published several papers in this area and is a member of the editorial boards of the leading journals in marketing. His website can be accessed at http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/ (“Faculty and Research”).

Application Process

Please send a letter articulating your qualifications and interest in this position, along with your CV, to Carol.Millay@Dartmouth.Edu, using “Application for Spiegel Post-Doc” as the subject heading. The goal is to finalize the appointment by May 15, 2010 or earlier.

Facebook Fellowships

As part of our ongoing commitment to academic relations, Facebook is pleased to announce the creation of a fellowship program to support graduate students in the 2010-2011 school year.

http://www.facebook.com/careers/fellowship.php

We are interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas:

* Internet Economics: auction theory and algorithmic game theory relevant to online advertising auctions.
* Cloud Computing: storage, databases, and optimization for computing in a massively distributed environment.
* Social Computing: models, algorithms and systems around social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environments.
* Data Mining and Machine Learning: learning algorithms, feature generation, and evaluation methods to produce effective online and offline models of behavioral signals.
* Systems: Hardware, operating system, runtime, and language support for fast, scalable, efficient data centers.
* Information Retrieval: search algorithms, information extraction, question answering, cross-lingual retrieval and multimedia retrieval

Eligibility Criteria

Students must be full-time Ph.D. students in the programs related to the topical areas of the fellowship and currently involved in ongoing research. Students must also be enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded and nominated by a faculty member.

Award Details

* Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year.
* $30K stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year).
* $5K per year toward conference attendance and travel.
* $5K toward a personal computer.
* Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship.
* Recipients are responsible for the taxation on any funds.

Important Dates
2/15/2010: Applications for fellowships must be submitted in full
3/29/2010: Award recipients will be notified by email of their acceptance.

For more details, please refer to the fellowship website:
http://www.facebook.com/careers/fellowship.php

Chronicle of Higher Education article:
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Facebook-Announces-Fellowship/19565/

Facebook Employment Opportunity

Facebook is hiring brilliant engineers who want to make an impact as we grow and shape the way the world connects and shares with each other. No one has ever done what we are trying to do at such speed and scale, on top of that we only do it with about 300 engineers. Our active user to engineer ratio is over 1,000,000 : 1... and growing. You won't be able to get that personal impact at any other tech company in the world.

We've got over 350 million active users so far, but we have so much more to do and build... ninjas strongly encouraged to apply.

The following positions "Software Engineer, New Grad" and "Software Engineer, Intern" have been posted in the UCS online system. Please login and read the full description.

IBM Research - India Summer Internship Opportunity

IBM Research - India invites applications for it's 2010 Summer Internship Program in Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences and Services Science, Management and Engineering at it's locations in New Delhi and Bangalore. We are seeking highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students, who are interested in experiencing an exciting summer of research. The selected students will have the opportunity to work closely with an outstanding research team on challenging problems that range from leading-edge exploratory work to prototyping real-world systems and applications. During the internship, the students will also have the opportunity to participate in the dynamic technical environment of the largest Industrial Research organization in the world and network with other top students in different fields from other universities. We offer internship positions in various research areas such as:

● High Performance Computing
● Information Management
● IT Service Management
● Next Generation Systems and Smarter Planet Solutions
● Programming Technologies and Software Engineering
● Services Science
● Services Information and Analytics
● Telecom Research

At a high level, our internships serve a dual purpose:
1. Interns bring fresh ideas and perspectives to the lab and help us conduct world-class research, thus creating impact.

2. IBM Research provides an environment where interns experience a world-class industrial research setting.

We measure the success of our internships in one of the following ways:
1. Projects done at internships are targeted towards top conferences and journals. Most of our interns have been successful in the past in publishing their papers in top conferences.

2. Projects completed during the internships become part of larger research projects at IBM.

3. The projects that the students participate in are also of interest to the universities that they come from, and help increase collaborations with the universities.

Stipend and Benefits:
1. We pay stipend of INR 30K to MS and INR 50K to PhD students and give airfare up to $1500 for relocation. We also help students for accommodation close by.

Applications along with your latest CV and the application form can be sent to: urirl@in.ibm.com

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I've put the flyer and application at

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~lastra/tmp/IBM_India_flyer.pdf
and
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~lastra/tmp/IBM_India_Application.doc

Summer Internships

Got this from a recruiter.

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Hello,
Representatives of our company, Intelligent Information Systems, will be attending an Internship Fair at UNC on this coming Thursday, January 28, 2010. Our desire is to come away from the fair with resumes of prospective candidates for 2 software developer internships that we will have available beginning Summer 2010. A former student of UNC suggested that we contact your department directly so that you could advise your students to attend the fair and to stop by to see us while there. Also, please remind them to bring their resumes along with them.

Thanks for your help,

Yvette Flounoy
HR Specialist
Intelligent Information Systems
www.iisfirst.com