[Corpora-List] Summer internships at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Fri Dec 7 22:09:47 UTC 2007

Summer Internships at the Center for Advanced Research

The Center for Advanced Research at PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking 
interns for the summer of 2008. These interns will perform important tasks 
for two of our projects - Magic Lens and Sherlock.

The Magic Lens project is developing new techniques for the detection and 
display of similarities in documents -- even those based in paper. There 
are three openings for summer interns:
Computational Linguistics specialist: Duties include evaluating existing 
methods and developing new approaches for challenging problems in document 
concept classification and similarity metrics, semantic parsing, text 
mining, and paraphrase detection. The candidate must be currently enrolled 
in a computer science, computational linguistics, or similar graduate 
program and should have prior experience dealing with complex language 
processing problems. Programming will be required and familiarity with C# 
or .NET is preferred.
Visualization specialist: Duties include evaluating existing methods and 
developing new approaches for visualizing large data-sets, especially 
clusters of items. The candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer 
science, MIS, or similar graduate program and should have prior experience 
dealing with prototype development or visualization of large datasets. 
Some programming will be required and familiarity with C# or .NET is 
preferred.
Image recognition specialist: Duties include applying existing methods and 
developing new approaches to the comparison and recognition of images from 
documents. Some programming will be required and familiarity with C# or 
.NET is preferred.

Project Sherlock is developing software to detect and respond to 
meaningful patterns in accounting data, drawing on techniques from 
statistics, data modeling, data mining and machine learning.   There are 
three openings for summer interns:
Analytics Specialist: Duties include evaluating existing methods and 
developing new approaches for challenging problems in classification, 
anomaly detection, and exploratory data analysis. The candidate must be 
currently enrolled in a computer science, statistics, or similar graduate 
program and should have prior experience dealing with large and/or complex 
data analysis problems. Programming will be required and familiarity with 
SQL, Matlab, and R is preferred.
User Experience/Interface Specialist: Duties will include assisting with 
usability studies, design and implementation of human-computer interfaces 
to facilitate analysis of large quantities of transactional data. The 
candidate must be currently enrolled in a computer science, MIS, or 
similar graduate program and should have prior experience in user 
interface design and implementation.
Business/Data Mining Analyst: The intern will work with both client and 
research staff to identify and solve business problems that can be 
addressed with statistical, data mining, or other existing analytical 
techniques. The candidate should be currently enrolled in an MIS, computer 
science, or similar program and should have strong quantitative skills and 
prior experience analyzing business data in an industrial setting. SQL 
experience is required and familiarity with OLAP and data mining toolboxes 
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 live 
data. 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.

All positions are in San Jose, CA.  Compensation is commensurate with 
experience.  PricewaterhouseCoopers is an equal opportunity employer.
To apply for an internship position, please send an e-mail with your area 
of interest and resume to navneet.n.bal at us.pwc.com

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 766 cities in 150 
countries. With a combined headcount of more than 146,000, PwC firms rank 
amongst the world's leading employers of highly skilled, professional 
people. 

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