6 November: fyi -- summer internships, San Jose
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Summer Internships at the Center for Advanced Research
The Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking
several interns for the summer of 2007. This ad describes the interns
needed for Project Magic Lens, which will hire one or more interns
depending on the number of qualified applicants. These interns will
perform important tasks for the project, which is developing new
techniques for assisting with the review of legal documents that originate
in paper form.
Duties include evaluating existing methods and developing new approaches
for challenging problems in text mining, computational linguistics,
statistical natural language processing, and machine learning. We are
looking for expertise in several areas including pattern recognition,
image processing, HCI including "smart paper", text classification, and
semantic parsing. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer
science, computational linguistics, electrical engineering, or similar
graduate program and should have prior experience dealing with complex
language or image processing problems. Programming will be required and
familiarity with C# or .NET is preferred.
Each intern will select a task for the summer, the details of which will
be based on the match of project needs to student backgrounds, but will be
hands-on, involving substantial design, analysis, and interaction with
real legal documents. Summer interns, like all members of the staff at the
Center, are expected to be curious, eager to learn, passionate to
contribute their ideas, accepting of criticism and suggestions, and
willing to constructively confront difficult problems and situations. The
candidate should also have excellent verbal and written communication
skills.
This position is in San Jose, CA. Compensation is commensurate with
experience. PricewaterhouseCoopers is an equal opportunity employer.
To schedule an interview, please send an e-mail with your resume to
navneet.n.bal@us.pwc.com ; please use the subject line "Summer intern for
Magic Lens".
About PricewaterhouseCoopers
The mission of PricewaterhouseCoopers? Center for Advanced Research,
located in San Jose, California, is to create competitive advantage and
industry leadership for the firm by applying advanced technology and
thinking to important practice problems. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (
www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory
services for public and private clients primarily in four areas: corporate
accountability; risk management; structuring and mergers and acquisitions;
and performance and process improvement. PricewaterhouseCoopers is a truly
global organization with member firm offices in 769 cities in 144
countries. With a combined headcount of more than 122,000, PwC firms rank
amongst the world's leading employers of highly skilled, professional
people.
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