Common Lisp + Machine Learning Internship at Google (Mountain View, CA)

45 points

17 years ago

I am seeking an intern to work on the open-source probabilistic learning of programs project over Summer 2009 at Google in Mountain View, CA. Probabilistic learning of programs (plop) is a Common Lisp framework for experimenting with meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES) and related approaches to learning with probability distributions over program spaces. Possible research topics to focus on include:

* Learning procedural abstractions

* Adapting estimation-of-distribution algorithms to program evolution

* Applying plop to various interesting data sets

* Adapting plop to do natural language processing or image processing

* Better mechanisms for exploiting background knowledge in program evolution

This position is open to all students currently pursuing a BS, MS or PhD in computer science or a related technical field. It is probably better-suited to a grad student, but I'm open to considering an advanced undergrad as well. The only hard and fast requirements for consideration are a strong programming background (any language(s)) and some experience in AI and/or machine learning. Some pluses:

* Functional programming experience (esp. Lisp, but ML, Haskell, or even the functional style of C++ count too)

* Experience with evolutionary computation or stochastic local search (esp. estimation-of-distribution algorithms and/or genetic programming)

* Open-source contributor (esp. Maxima)

* Interest in artificial general intelligence (i.e. building a thinking machine)

More info on plop at http://code.google.com/p/plop/, more info on the Google internship program at: http://www.google.com/jobs/students

Please contact me directly (email: madscience at google) with your info, so I can watch for your resume.

Thanks! Moshe Looks

P.S. Disclaimer: I can't promise anyone an internship, you have to go through the standard Google application & interview process for interns, yada yada ...

P.P.S. Any Googlers reading this and looking for a cool 20% project should contact me as well ;->

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