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

If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers $5000 stipends to write code for various open source projects over the summer. Over the past eight years, it has brought together over 6,000 students with over 300 open source projects to create millions of lines of code.

Students who are accepted into the program will put the skills they have learned to good use by working remotely on an actual software project over the summer. Students are paired with mentors to help address technical questions and concerns throughout the course of the project. With the knowledge and hands-on experience students gain during the summer they strengthen their future employment opportunities in fields related to their academic pursuits.

Students should submit applications via the Google Summer of Code 2013 site by May 3. Google says that that the best applications they receive are from students who took the time to interact with one of the participating mentoring organizations and discuss their ideas before submitting an application. About 1,200 students are expected to be funded this year.

If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers $5000 stipends to write code for various open source projects over the summer. Over the past eight years, it has brought together over 6,000 students with over 300 open source projects to create millions of lines of code.

Students who are accepted into the program will put the skills they have learned to good use by working remotely on an actual software project over the summer. Students are paired with mentors to help address technical questions and concerns throughout the course of the project. With the knowledge and hands-on experience students gain during the summer they strengthen their future employment opportunities in fields related to their academic pursuits.

Students should submit applications via the Google Summer of Code 2013 site by May 3. Google says that that the best applications they receive are from students who took the time to interact with one of the participating mentoring organizations and discuss their ideas before submitting an application. About 1,200 students are expected to be funded this year.

If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers $5000 stipends to write code for various open source projects over the summer. Over the past eight years, it has brought together over 6,000 students with over 300 open source projects to create millions of lines of code.

Students who are accepted into the program will put the skills they have learned to good use by working remotely on an actual software project over the summer. Students are paired with mentors to help address technical questions and concerns throughout the course of the project. With the knowledge and hands-on experience students gain during the summer they strengthen their future employment opportunities in fields related to their academic pursuits.

Students should submit applications via the Google Summer of Code 2013 site by May 3. Google says that that the best applications they receive are from students who took the time to interact with one of the participating mentoring organizations and discuss their ideas before submitting an application. About 1,200 students are expected to be funded this year.

If you have good programming skills and are looking for an interesting alternative to the usual summer internship, you might check out the Google Summer of Code program. It pays student developers $5000 stipends to write code for various open source projects over the summer. Over the past eight years, it has brought together over 6,000 students with over 300 open source projects to create millions of lines of code.

Students who are accepted into the program will put the skills they have learned to good use by working remotely on an actual software project over the summer. Students are paired with mentors to help address technical questions and concerns throughout the course of the project. With the knowledge and hands-on experience students gain during the summer they strengthen their future employment opportunities in fields related to their academic pursuits.

Students should submit applications via the Google Summer of Code 2013 site by May 3. Google says that that the best applications they receive are from students who took the time to interact with one of the participating mentoring organizations and discuss their ideas before submitting an application. About 1,200 students are expected to be funded this year.

MS Thesis Defense

A Hybrid CPU/GPU Pipeline Workflow System

Tim Blattner

11:45am Thurday, 25 April 2013, ITE 325b, UMBC

Heterogeneous architectures can be problematic to program on, particularly when trying to schedule tasks on all available compute resources, overlapping PCI express transfers, and managing the limited memory available on the architectures. In this thesis we propose a workflow system that is capable of scheduling on all available compute resources, overlaps PCI express transfers, and manages the limited memory. A procedure for creating the workflow system is described and two case studies are analyzed.

• Image Stitching, which implements the workflow system and achieves two orders of magnitude speedup over an image stitching plugin found in the popular Fiji ImageJ application. Implementing the image stitching algorithm without the workflow system yielded only one order of magnitude speedup over the image stitching plugin.
• Out of Core LU Decomposition, which does not implement the workflow system. This case study demonstrates the impact of the PCI express on a problem with a large number of dependencies. A proposed workflow system for this algorithm is provided in Future Work.

Using the workflow system, programmers have a method for scheduling any algorithm on all available compute resources and is capable of hiding the I/O impact by overlapping computation with I/O.

Committee Members: Milton Halem, Yelena Yesha, Shujia Zhou, John Dorband, Walid Keyrouz

Baltimore Chapter of Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits

Quantum Engineering of Semiconductor Atomic Structures for Biosensing

Dr. Manijeh Razeghi
Center for Quantum Devices
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University

5:30pm Tuesday, 30 April 2013
206 Technology Research Center, UMBC

5:30pm social hour, talk begins at 6:15pm. Free but please RSVP to Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address. by Monday, April 29

Nature offers us different kinds of atoms, but it takes human intelligence to put them together in an elegant way in order to realize functional structures not found in nature. III-V semiconductors are made of atoms from column III (B, Al, Ga, In, Tl) and column V (N, As, P, Sb, Bi) of the periodic table, and constitute a particularly rich variety of compounds with many useful optical and electronic properties. Guided by highly accurate simulations of the electronic structure, modern semiconductor optoelectronic devices are literally made atom by atom using advanced growth technology such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) and Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD). Recent breakthroughs have brought quantum engineering to an unprecedented level, creating light detectors and emitters over an extremely wide spectral range from 0.2 µm to 300 µm. Nitrogen serves as the best column V element for the short wavelength side of the electromagnetic spectrum, where we have demonstrated III-nitride light emitting diodes and photo detectors in the deep ultraviolet to visible wavelengths. In the infrared, III-V compounds using phosphorus, arsenic, or antimony from column V with indium, gallium, aluminum, or thallium from column III can create lasers and detectors based on quantum-dot (QD) or type-II superlattice (T2SL). These are fast becoming the choice of technology in crucial applications such as environmental monitoring and space exploration. Last but not least, on the far-infrared end of the electromagnetic spectrum known as the terahertz (THz) region, III-V semiconductors offer a unique solution of generating THz waves in a compact device at room temperature. Continued effort is being devoted to all of the above areas with the intention of developing smart technologies which meet the current challenges in environment, health, security, and energy. This talk will highlight contributions to the world of III-V semiconductor nano-scale optoelectronic devices from deep UV to THz.

Dr. Manijeh Razeghi received the Doctorat d'État es Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris in 1980. After heading the Exploratory Materials Lab at Thomson-CSF (France), she joined Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, in the fall of 1991 as the Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, where she created undergraduate and graduate programs in solid-state engineering. Dr. Razeghi pioneered the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques such as MOCVD, VPE, gas MBE, and MOMBE for the growth of entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors. She is on the editorial board of journals such as the Journal of Nanotechnology and the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and is an Associate Editor of the Opto-Electronics Review. Dr. Razeghi is on the International Advisory Board for the Polish Committee of Science, and is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona in Tucson. She ha s authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, over 30 book chapters, and fifteen books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices and Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 3rd Edition. Two of her books, MOCVD Challenge Vol. 1 (1989) and MOCVD Challenge Vol. 2 (1995), discuss some of her pioneering work in InP-GaInAsP and GaAs-GaInAsP based systems. [The MOCVD Challenge, 2nd Edition (2010) represents the combined updated version of Volumes 1 and 2]. Dr. Razeghi holds 50 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, and the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), a Fellow and Life Member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and a member of the Electrochemical Society, ACS, AAAS, and the French Academy of Sciences and Technology. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah! Award in 2004, and multiple best paper awards.

Betamore is an urban campus for technology and entrepreneurship that is home to dozens of startups and entrepreneurs and located at 1111 Light St. in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood. They are holding a "startup crawl" on Thusday, 2 May 2013 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm where students and recent graduates can meet with people from the Baltimore technology and startup community.

"Are you a current student or recent graduate looking to enter the startup market through an internship or job? Are you a startup looking for the next best thing? Join us here at Betamore for our first Startup Crawl, an event that puts talented college and graduate students in the same room with the startup / tech community to learn the industry, create beneficial connections and discover what the Baltimore Tech community has to offer.

Shake a few hands, have a couple beers, and experience how fun working for a startup can be. This event is exclusive to students and recent grads (must be less than one year out of school)."

If you are interested, see their Facebook Startup Crawl event page and register for this free event.