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I think this would be a good opportunity to do some interesting work.
Details and contact information can be found at the link below, or you
can contact the lab director directly -- which might be preferable
(Rajeev Rastogi: rrastogi@yahoo-inc.com).

Amol.

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Will you be the next big thinking intern to create a scalable  
algorithm for global deployment?

Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore is offering paid summer internship  
opportunities for the duration of 10-12 weeks. Our internship program  
is designed for real-world work experience in a global research  
environment. Our interns get to work on cutting-edge research problems  
with renowned scientists in Bangalore and across the globe.

Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore  offers opportunities to work in the following  
areas of machine learning and computer science research:

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user categorization; auctions design.
3. Large scale distributed/grid/cluster computing systems and Cloud
Computing:
resource scheduling, management, modeling and analysis;  
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distribution; open- source technologies like Hadoop map-reduce  
framework.
4. Algorithms development: developing stable, scalable, and flexible  
learning algorithms applicable to a large class of problems.

A summer internship at Yahoo! Labs will let you to
- Pitch your skills against problems affecting half a billion people  
every month
- Work with some of the best researchers in the world
- Publish your work
- Interact with highly competent peers
- have fun Yahoo! style

An ideal candidate will have
- Enrolled in B.Tech/M.Tech/M.S./Ph.D. program in computer science,  
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Systems, Distributed Systems, or Cloud Computing is a plus
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SQL, Perl
- Ability to do creative work independently or in small teams
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