Summer internship positions at IBM Watson (fwd)

From: Rupak Majumdar (rupak@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 02/26/02


From: Rupak Majumdar <rupak@ic.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Message-Id: <200202262231.g1QMVf109683@edalap09.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Summer internship positions at IBM Watson (fwd)
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:31:41 -0800 (PST)

Possible internship opportunity at IBM Watson:
Please reply to John Field (jfield@us.ibm.com).


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> 
> Hi,
> 
> I _believe_ we talked briefly when I gave a talk at Berkeley in 
> mid-January (if I _didn't_ talk to you when I was at Berkeley, my 
> apologies for the confusion---I lost the notes I took at the time, and got 
> your name from Tom Henzinger's web page---but read on, since this mail be 
> relevant anyway).
> 
> My group at Watson is working on techniques for verifying whether a client 
> of a Java library conforms to the library's constraints for correct usage. 
>  You can find out more about the work from our project web page at 
> http://www.research.ibm.com/menage/canvas (the web page is slightly out of 
> date; e.g., a revised version of the tech report on the web page will 
> appear in PLDI '02).
> 
> We're looking for an intern to work with us on the project this summer. 
> Some projects of possible interest include use of theorem-proving 
> techniques to generate problem-specific offline abstractions for abstract 
> interpretation-based verification, investigation of efficient data 
> structures for state-space representation, and lightweight program 
> analyses as prepasses for "heavyweight" verification.
> 
> If you're interested in a possible internship, please let me know, 
> preferably by Wednesday (2/27), and I can contact you with more 
> information.  If you're not interested, I'd appreciate if you could pass 
> on this mail to any other students in your area who might be.
> 
> Finally, I've attached below a general announcement for interns in our 
> area at Watson; here again, please feel free to pass this along to other 
> students who might be interested.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -John
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The Software Technology department at IBM's T.J. Watson Research center is 
> looking for smart, energetic and resourceful graduate students (Ph.D. or 
> advanced master's candidates) to join a variety of projects in the 
> department as 2002 summer interns.  We do research in a number of areas, 
> all centered on making program development and maintenance more 
> productive, and making the software produced more efficient, more 
> manageable, and less failure-prone at runtime.
> 
> Among the topics we pursue are:
> 
> tools and techniques for software architecture design, management, and 
> implementation
> program understanding, debugging, perfomance tuning, and testing tools
> processes, management techniques, and metrics for software development
> dynamic and adaptive code optimization
> software composition techniques and languages
> algorithms for program analysis and verification
> tools and techniques for optimization, understanding, and monitoring of 
> complex heterogeneous software systems
> software configuration management systems
> programming language design, particularly for distributed- or 
> component-based systems
> XML processing and programming
> software design patterns
> formalisms and tools and for modeling and implementing business 
> applications
> software verification tools
> programming support for web services and grid computing
> 
> We are especially interested in developing better software tools, 
> programming techniques, and optimization technologies for distributed, 
> internet-based, and heterogeneous systems; for long-running systems 
> software; and for software that makes extensive use of middleware or 
> libraries.
> 
> Internship openings will be available in most of the areas listed above. 
> The best internship candidates will have a strong computer science or 
> mathematics background, excellent implementation skills, and research 
> interests that mesh well with one or more of the topics listed above.
> 
> Students interested in summer jobs in programming languages and software 
> engineering at Watson (NY area)  should send a resume to 
> VTRajan@us.ibm.com.  The general IBM Research summer job site is: http://www.research.ibm.com/summerstudents/.
> 
> For more information about Programming Languages and Software Engineering 
> Projects at IBM Research, see http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/plansoft/index.html.
> 
> 
> John Field
> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
> http://www.research.ibm.com/people/j/jfield



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