Postdoc in NLP and Machine Learning at the University College London

# Position:

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to work with Dr Sebastian Riedel (UCL Computer Science) to develop novel methods and models to extract rich knowledge graphs from web-scale textual data. The project will focus on the intersection of recent developments in relation extraction with Universal Schemas [1] and matrix factorization, compositional semantics and latent (recursive) vector-space embeddings. The associate is expected to publish papers in top venues and to collaborate with other faculty, research associates and students.

The associate will be part of the newly established UCL Machine Reading lab in the Computer Science department, affiliated with the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (bringing together CS, the Gatsby unit and Statistics department). He or she will be physically located on the UCL Bloomsbury campus in the heart of London. The position is funded by a Google Focused Research Award [2], and the associate will be able (and encouraged to) collaborate with researchers at Google and visit Google workshops.

The post is funded for two years initially. 

# Key Requirements:

The Research Associate is expected to have a PhD degree and top-tier peer-reviewed publications in statistical natural language processing and/or machine learning. We are particularly looking for experience in information extraction, compositional semantics, large scale matrix factorization, and graphical models. The candidate is also expected to be capable of working under limited supervision, have strong communication and coding skills, and to work in a team.

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Dr Sebastian Riedel, tel: ++44 20 3549 5254, email: s.riedel@cs.ucl.ac.uk.

For more details, and to apply, please visit

https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1361480

[1] http://www.riedelcastro.org/publications/details/riedel13relation.html
[2] http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/natural-language-understanding-focused.html.

PhD positions in Ubicomp/HCI and IR/Data Mining at the University of Lugano, Switzerland

Two PhD positions in Comp. Science on Ambient Human Memory Augmentation
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The Faculty of Informatics of the University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland, is looking for candidates for two fully funded PhD positions, available for 3 years (starting 1 November 2013 or as soon as possible thereof), in connection with the EU project RECALL (FET-Open funding scheme).

*The Project*
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RECALL aims to rethink and redefine the notion of memory augmentation. Recent developments in capture technology and information retrieval allow for continuous and automated recordings of many aspects of our everyday lives. RECALL will harness these trends and develop a new paradigm for memory augmentation technologies that are technically feasible, desired by users, and beneficial to society. RECALL will build on contemporary memory theories that highlight how technology augmented recall can be used to both re-enforce and attenuate memories. It will develop novel capture technologies and corresponding control mechanisms to automate the acquisition of personal memories, and investigate how feedback through ambient large displays and personal mobile devices can aid personal memory acquisition, retention, and attenuation.

*The positions*
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One position will be in the area of Information Retrieval and Data Mining. In particular, you will research new methods and tools for the identification and retrieval of personal contextual information useful for triggering a user's recall of specific events. The work will be supervised by Prof. Fabio Crestani.

The second position will be on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, with particular focus on life-long capture interfaces as well as usable privacy and security. In particular, you will research new methods and tools for the contextual acquisition of recall-relevant daily events, and their secure and privacy-compliant storage and processing. The work will be supervised by Prof. Marc Langheinrich.

Your main responsibility will be to carry out research in the above two areas, but you will be given the opportunity to acquire some teaching experience and qualification as well.

*Our offer*
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We offer a two full-time PhD positions with a competitive salary and social security insurances.  The year salary of a PhD student, in accordance with Swiss regulations, ranges from CHF 42,000 (gross) in the first year to CHF 48,000 (gross) in the last year. The University of Lugano provides excellent facilities for both professional and personal development, and the city of Lugano offers an enjoyable environment all year round.

*Your profile and application process*
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Application are invited as soon as possible. Applicants are expected to already have a Master degree (or comparable level) in Computer Science, Information Science or closely related disciplines. Please send the following information to Prof. Marc Langheinrich (at marc.langheinrich@usi.ch) using the subject "RECALL PhD Position":

1. Motivation letter indicating your background and interests.
2. Full curriculum vitae, including a list of all courses and marks.
3. Contact information for at least two academic references.
4. Evidence of the command of English (fluent in writing and speaking).


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Prof. Fabio Crestani                                                 tel: +41 58.666.4657
Faculty of Informatics                                              fax: +41 58.666.4536
University of Lugano (USI)                                    fabio.crestani@usi.ch
CH-6900, Lugano, CH                     http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/crestani
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Postdoc Position [Barcelona, Spain]: Context and Content Modelling and Representation

Title:          Postdoc in context and content modelling and representation
Position:               Post-doctoral Researcher
Close Date:     Initial close date is Sep 21, 2013.  Applications will continue to be accepted and reviewed every week thereafter, until position is filled.

EU Project
The Yahoo! Labs within Barcelona Media has an opening for a postdoc position in the Web Retrieval group for the EU STREP project MULTISENSOR (FP7-ICT-2013-10). MULTISENSOR envisages at developing technologies that will provide access to multilingual and multicultural economic and news story material, and deliver a context-aware, spatio-temporal, and sentiment-oriented interpretation, into a coherent whole. In addition, semantic integration of heterogeneous media, including computer-mediated interactions, will be examined to reveal latent meanings and gain an understanding based on social intelligence.

About Us
Yahoo! Labs is pioneering the new sciences underlying the web. As the centre of scientific excellence for Yahoo!, Yahoo! Labs delivers both fundamental and applied scientific leadership through published research and new technologies powering the company's products. Yahoo! Labs within Barcelona Media has an opening for a postdoc position in Barcelona, Spain.

Job description
In this position you will be working together with our scientists towards achieving the research goals and deliverables of MULTISENSOR. Successful candidates should have demonstrated their ability to perform high-quality original research in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), context & semantic analysis, event detection, and graph-based modelling. Candidates should also be proficient in developing proof-of-concept prototypes and possess the ability to work with various open source NLP and ML tools and libraries.

Required skills/qualifications:
- Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics;
- Proficiency in both written and spoken English;
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills;

- Proven ability to perform high-quality original research in context/semantic analysis, event detection, and graph-based modeling, both independently and as a member of a team;
- Experience in research and development of applications in the areas of NLP and social media;
- Proven ability to develop proof-of-concept prototypes for experimenting with novel algorithms;

- Experience in open source NLP and ML tools and libraries;
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Perl, C/C++, Java, Matlab;

How to apply:
To apply for this position please send your CV and cover letter to rrhh@barcelonamedia.org indicating the position's title and the EU project's name.

Opportunity for Senior/Lead Search Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Search Engineer

Engineering | Sausalito, CA

Want to work at a start-up where you can really make a difference?  

Glassdoor, the world's fastest growing career community and 2013 Webby Winner for "Best Employment Website", is looking for a search and information retrieval engineer to create a world class job and employer search platform.  This is your chance to share your work with a worldwide community of over 20M members and make your mark on the #1 employment app on Facebook – and we're just getting started.

Responsibilities

As Senior Search Software Engineer, you'll play a central role in the IR system that drives the Glassdoor website. You will work on areas such as document indexing, retrieval, and relevancy scoring. We're looking for a developer with a strong background in both theoretical and applied information retrieval.

As a fast-growing startup, we look for self-starters who thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment – which means wearing many hats, being able to change direction quickly, and showing an eagerness to learn new technologies as the need arises.  In this role you work with a small, collaborative team of engineers, QA, and product managers – so excellent interpersonal and communication skills are also a must.  But most importantly – we look for people that can prioritize, multi-task, and deliver – because it's a lot more fun to get things done.

Skills and Requirements

• Deep understanding of the mathematical underpinnings of information retrieval
• Experience working on a production level, high-volume IR system such as a search engine, including vertical search
• Experience working with open source search software (Lucene/Solr), ideally using Java
• Bonus points if you have experience with any of the following areas: Experimental design, A/B testing, statistical analysis; Machine Learning (ML); Natural Language Processing (NLP); Big Data (Map-Reduce, Hadoop, Pig); Web crawling; Internationalization

Why Glassdoor?

We believe that work is one of the most important parts of our lives, so we also we believe in a winning culture and great benefits:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Great culture & team spirit
• Take a break when you need it – unlimited PTO
• 100% company paid medical/dental/vision/life insurance (90% dependent)
• Fully stocked break rooms with unlimited drinks, snacks and daily bbq
• Pet-friendly office
• Onsite yoga and meditation room
• Paid volunteer days
• Mac or PC – you choose!
• Sunny Sausalito offices just a block from the water
• 2012 & 2013 Winner "Best Places to Work" in the North Bay
• Team outings (Ball games, hikes, paddle-boarding etc.)
• Relocation assistance provided!

ASIAN INSTITUTE OF GAMING AND ANIMATION

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Video,flash,Gaming/game programming course,design,art,curriculum institute in Bangalore via kwout

To know complete details see here

JOB: Postdoctoral position in multimedia retrieval at IDIAP/EPFL

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Postdoctoral position in
computer vision and multimedia retrieval
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We are looking for a highly motivated candidate for a postdoctoral position in computer vision and multimedia retrieval. The work will take place in the context of a project recently funded by the European Community, whose main goal is to leverage multimodal content analysis (audio/speech/video/text) along with social media data to address contextual media retrieval and recommendation tasks. Idiap will address the extraction of video concepts and their use in the envisioned application. The project involves academic partners in Spain, France and Germany as well as a news agency and a video content managing company.

The ideal postdoctoral candidate is expected to have a PhD in computer science or electrical engineering with a strong background in one or more of the following topics: multimedia indexing and retrieval, computer vision, machine learning, automatic image or video annotation. Prior participation in international evaluation campaigns like Trecvid or MediaEval will be a plus. The applicant should have strong programming skills and be familiar with C/C++ and the Linux environment.

The starting date is December 2013. The position is for up to 3 years. Salaries are competitive.

Interested candidates should a email a letter of motivation, a detailed CV, and the names of three references to:

Jean-Marc Odobez    (odobez@idiap.ch, tel : +41 (0)27 721 77 26)
Daniel Gatica-Perez (gatica@idiap.ch)

Idiap (EPFL's Lidiap laboratory, idiap.epfl.ch) is located in Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in French-speaking Switzerland surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, which offers multiple recreational activities,including hiking, climbing, and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities, all within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and offers a young, multicultural environment where English is the main working language.

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Jean-Marc Odobez,
IDIAP Senior Researcher, EPFL Maitre d'Enseignment de Recherche (MER)
IDIAP Research Institute (http://www.idiap.ch)
Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26
Email: Jean-Marc.Odobez at idiap.ch
Web: http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez

SAP Techniversity 2013 - India's largest technology conference for the student community. Register now.

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Get Ready for the next big cutting edge technology revolution Presenting the second edition of SAP Techniversity After a spectacular launch in 2012, we're proud to announce the second edition of SAP Techniversity - India's largest technology conference for the student community. And we're back with a core focus on Apps. This year's event promises to be 'Appsolutely ': Innovative: High-octane Demo jam Inspiring: Keynotes by thought leaders from various walks of life Tech-knowlogical: Technology sessions on latest and upcoming trends in IT Engaging: Interactions with subject experts from the industry Entertaining: Talent show and evening entertainment Register for the event now to know the rigors of the IT sector and fire your creativity through app-development contest. The registration fee is INR 600. SAP TECHNIVERSITY: THE EVENT FOR WINNERS Experience technology, like never before, as the industry experts demonstrate the latest trends Short bursts of 30 minutes sessions followed by interaction with the speakers Watch live, exciting demos and witness the magic of latest technology Network with industry experts during and after the event Interact with students from other institutes and make new friends Watch your friends and fellow students launch their own company at StartUp on SAP HANA: Launch of student start-up leveraging SAP HANA EVENT DETAILS Date: September 28, 2013 Venue: KTPO, Whitefield, Bangalore Register Now › GLIMPSES FROM LAST YEAR 5166 students from 76 colleges across 14 states in India Inspiring talks by Vishwanathan Anand and Suresh Raina Technology sessions delivered by speakers from Facebook, Google, Flipkart, IBM etc. Participation of corporate leaders from 25 companies Biztech, the app development contest Bandwidth, the college rock band competition   Partners Visit www.saptechniversity.com   |   Follow us on    |  Watch the Highlights  Click here to unsubscribe

An employability initiative from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Dear Madam/Sir,

               

As you may know, TCS is one of the
largest software companies in the world. TCS is also the largest
employer of science graduates (B.Sc./BCA students) in India. Over
the last several years, TCS has offered IT opportunities to over
8,000 of the brightest young science graduates from across 6,000
colleges. All those who joined are doing well in the industry on
account of the rigorous training provided through the Ignite program
of TCS.

In order to help your students, we are
now offering free online courses and thousands of practice tests to
enable your students to better prepare for a career in the IT
industry.

Could you please share information
about this program with your students and encourage them to
participate in it. Students can participate by registering at the
following link http://openseesame.tcs.com/ignite.
The web site also has detailed instructions for students to use the
site.

We are posting a set of posters on Open
Ignite which you should be receiving shortly. Kindly display these
posters on your notice boards. We are also attaching scanned images
of the posters along with this mail. You are welcome to print and use
these and also forward them to your faculty and students.

Cloud workshop for NUI Galway

.NUI Galway has issued a call for submissions for the first Irish Association for Information Systems (IAIS) Workshop on Cloud Computing Research, which takes place at the university on Friday, 27 September.

‘Research and Practice in the Cloud: What is on the Horizon?’ will focus on the Irish national agenda for research on cloud computing, bringing together researchers and practitioners across the island of Ireland.  The workshop will also focus on the international research stage for cloud computing, providing a forum for the development of research from international authors.

The workshop is welcoming submissions comprising short structured two-page abstracts representing emerging, novel or partially-completed research on cloud computing.

At the workshop, authors will work to create an architecture and propose a direction for the research. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 23 August, with further details at http://iaiswccr.eventbrite.ie.

The workshop is supported by IAIS, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero) and NUI Galway's Whitaker Institute, and is being jointly delivered by the Business Information Systems discipline and Lero at NUI Galway, and the Cloud Computing Services Innovation Centre at Hewlett-Packard.

The workshop builds upon NUI Galway, Lero and Hewlett-Packard’s strengths in cloud computing. The University’s research on cloud computing has been published in international outlets, and cloud computing has become a core part of a large SFI-funded research team.

The workshop is free and open to authors of accepted submissions, academics and industry persons working with cloud technologies. Online registration will be available from Saturday, 7 September at http://iaiswccr.eventbrite.ie 

Cloud computing Certification course by IIHT

Hello all 

Here is a professional cloud computing certification course by IIHT

Course details 

If interested contact akshay.kurdagi@iiht.com  or 7411371920

National Conferenec on Cloud Computing

Dear Sir

We take immense pleasure in informing you that we are organizing one day National Conference on Cloud Computing on 28-09-2013 at BMS Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

This conference is jointly organized by the Department of MCA and Computer Science Engineering of the Institute.

The main focus of the conference conference is to   provide a platform for researchers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the country  to present their research results and development activities in Cloud Computing and to exchange ideas and share information on contemporary issues in cloud computing  

We request you to depute Faculty members/ Research scholars/students to present papers on cloud computing and its allied topics.

Please refer enclosed brochure/website for detailed information about the conference or contact Prof. Bhushan

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Prof. Bhushan

*Dept of MCA

BMS Institute of Technology*

*Visveswaraya Technological University*

Ph: 91-9945388248

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Post-doc in Multimedia Processing at CEA LIST, France

The Vision and Content Engineering Lab (LVIC) of CEA LIST (French Atomic Commission), an interdisciplinary group that works on multimedia and multilingual data analysis and understanding, with a focus on fast growing and large public application domains, announces the availability of a 2-years post doctoral position.

The position is associated to the MUCKE project, funded within the CHIST-ERA funding scheme of the FP7, which fosters highly innovative and multidisciplinary collaborative projects in information and communication sciences and technologies. The project started in October 2012. Its main objective is to devise new and reliable knowledge extraction models designed for multilingual and multimodal data shared on social networks.

The post-doctoral researcher will first work on multimodal concept representation (around 2/3 of the post-doc duration) and then on user credibility estimation for multimedia flows (around 1/3 of the post-doc duration). The first task will focus on the proposition of innovative language and image processing techniques as well as on their combination using information fusion techniques. Particular attention will be given to the scalability of the methods developed because one important project objective is to model a large number of concepts (hundreds of thousands) and an important volume of textual and visual documents (tens of millions). For images, the main problems tackled in MUCKE are parsimonious local image description, large scale concept detection and concept visualness. Multimedia fusion will be based on probabilistic models that move beyond a scoring of similarity towards providing an actual probability of relevance. For textual documents, the objective is to depart from text representations as bags of words (unigrams) to representations as vectors of unambiguous concepts and entities through concept and entity recognition and disambiguation.

The second task will focus on the proposition of a novel model for estimating user credibility for multimedia flows, which combines content and structural features of the user's networked representation. Using results obtained for concept representation, credibility estimation will be cast as an information fusion problem, with a first step that combines textual and visual information and a second step that combines user content and context. Another important credibility related question that will be investigated is whether credibility should be a global characteristic of a user or domain related.

Candidates must hold a PhD in Computer Science obtained less than two years ago or expect to complete it before December 2013 and must be under 30 years old. Experience in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval or Computer Vision is expected, as well as willingness to learn new topics related to the post-doc.

The lab is situated in Palaiseau, 20 km south of Paris and is part of the CEA LIST Institute, which focuses its research activities on developing innovative technologies for smart and complex systems. The post-doc will be part of the lab's multimedia team, which consists of researchers in NLP, computer vision and multimedia processing. The working language is English. A more detailed description of LVIC's activities is available at http://www.kalisteo.fr/en/index.htm.

For further information, please send an expression of interest to adrian.popescu@cea.fr, attaching a CV and a cover letter. The position is available from October 2013 and is open until filled.

Adrian Popescu
CEA LIST
Vision and Content Engineering Lab
Centre de Saclay - NanoInnov Bât. 861

adrian.popescu@cea.fr
http://comupedia.org/adrian

ACM - ICPC 2013 Asia Amritapuri Regional

Greetings from Amrita University!

Amrita University is hosting the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) for the seventh year in a row. ACM ICPC is called as the Olympics of Programming contests and is the world's largest collegiate programming contest.  The contest is multi-tired with three levels - Online (Preliminary), Onsite (Semi Final) and the World Finals.  The first two levels are conducted by the Amrita University, India for Asia Amritapuri Region.

Registration is now open for all the students of Indian colleges undergoing their graduation. There is no registration fee for the Preliminary round.  Visit http://icpc.amrita.ac.in for more details and process of registration.

Anand Shenoy,
Associate Site Director,
ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Region,
Amrita University (Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Coimbatore).
Email: icpc[at]am.amrita.edu.

AppsFluxus-2013 Fluxus,IIT Indore Android Development Workshop

Dear sir/madam,                                                                                                  

On behalf of Fluxus-2013 Indian Institute of Technology Indore & Finland Labs as the host of this National Android Apps championship                                                                     

it gives us great pleasure to introduce AppsFluxus-2013.                                         

AppsFluxus-2013 will bring students from all over the country together to participate in the celebration of knowledge and creative extravagance along with experts from the fields of academic as well as industry                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

I am forwarding AppsFluxus-2013 proposals & course content. In that proposal all details  has given Related to the AppsFluxus-2013 .                                                     

So we are looking to make your esteemed college a Zonal Center this event.                                                                 

website:www.finlandlabs.com
Email: jeetu@finlandlabs.com

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Thanks & RegardsSr. Marketing Associates
Finland Labs
Jeetu Gupta
Mobile:+91-8505838080

IUCEE-SPEED Student leadership workshop at Rajkot Aug 12 and 13

Below are details for third IUCEE-SPEED student workshop. The first one at Hyderabad on July 8 and  9 was a great success with 12 colleges and 70 students participating. The second one at Pune will be conducted tomorrow and the day after and has more than 60 students participating.

IUCEE has joined hands with SPEED, a global student organization to empower students to become a factor of change in Engineering Education by providing them with the skills, knowledge and resources necessary to become a global engineer and show them how they can think globally and act locally. More details about SPEED are at http://www.worldspeed.org/portal/

The third SPEED-IUCEE Student Leadership Workshop is planned for August 12^th and 13^th  at R.K. University, Rajkot, Gujarat. The theme for the workshop is the same as the first two, has been decided as "Creativity and Innovation in Engineering Education". The theme is in accordance with the 2013 GSF (Global Student Forum) to be held in Cartagena, Columbia in September, 2013 and 2014 NISF (National Indian Student Forum) to be held in Hubli, India in January, 2014.

This workshop will help develop regional voice of students with respect to the topic, and helping them creating action plans which can be implemented locally, resulting in real time projects. The workshop duration is 2 days. The first day includes a ice breaking session, few group activities and introduction to the theme of the workshop. The second day starts with a presentation on the importance of action plan development followed by development of action plans by the participants by exploring the theme and involves presentation of the action plans by various groups to the peer of the colleges. The workshops are facilitated by 3 experienced SPEED members from across the country.

You are invited to send a team of 5 to 7 students from your college to this IUCEE-SPEED workshop. Participants can be from B.Tech 2^nd and 3^rd year and M.Tech 1^st year.  SPEED requests that the student's participants attending the workshops display the following characteristics:

a)      leaders in local student organizations, socially motivated, communication inclined professional students with ambitions to change the world.

Participants will need to pay Rs. 500 for the food and accommodation provided by the host college. Participants are expected so spend the night at the student housing at RK University. We will send you more details regarding directions to the venue, accommodation at venue if you respond. Single point of contact for enquiries is:

A. RajaniKanth; School of R.K.University, Kasturbhadham,Tramba,Rajkot-360020
Mobile :  +919978967155
E-Mail: tpo@rku.ac.in,rajnikanth.aluvalu@rku.ac.in

Similar workshops will be conducted in different regions of India. Representatives from different regions will come together at the National Student Forum in January 2014. National representatives will then participate in Global Forum in Dubai in 2014

Best wishes

Krishna Vedula

Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Immediate Past President, (IFEES) International Federation of Engineering Education Societies

Executive Director (IUCEE), Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education