[GAMBIT-UROPS-summon] Fwd: internship at Lincoln Lab

[Philip Tan]

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Philip Tan
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab


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From: Jayson Lynch <JaysonL at mit.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Fwd: internship at Lincoln Lab
To: Philip Tan <philip at mit.edu>, Eric Klopfer <klopfer at mit.edu>


Someone in your lab/class might be interested in this.

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From: Alya Asarina <alya at mit.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Subject: internship at Lincoln Lab
To: r-h-t at mit.edu


Hey. I'm looking for someone to intern at MIT Lincoln Lab this summer,
working on writing a "game with a purpose".  The idea is to build a
game (web or mobile) that produces useful training/evaluation data for
natural language processing algorithms as people play. (A classic game
with a purpose is the ESP Game, which helps generate image tags.
http://www.gwap.com/gwap/gamesPreview/espgame/) We'd be working with
you to design the game and to figure out how to improve it once a
prototype is in place. If you have any questions or are interested,
please let me know! More details below.

    Alya


Where: MIT Lincoln Lab (accessible by shuttle from campus)
Desired skills/experience:
 * Experience with creating, deploying and operating a new application
 * Web development experience (css, html, javascript), OR
 * Mobile platform development experience (Android or iPhone)


Job Title: Summer Interactive Media Developer
State: Massachusetts
City: Lexington
Description: The Intelligence and Decision Technologies Group is a
multi-disciplinary team supporting deployed U.S. and allied military
forces around the world, including current theater operations. The
group develops advanced technologies for processing and integrating
data from a variety of sources, such as radar, electro-optic video
sensors, and related unstructured textual data, to support timely and
effective human decision making. These problems are addressed by
understanding the intelligence analysts' work flow processes and by
developing suitable exploitation automation systems. The group
develops efficient data and network management software systems to
transform high-volume data streams into tactically useful information
for human analysts. Technical disciplines required include
mathematical modeling and multi-source information fusion methods
based upon statistical and graphical models and the software
engineering skills to implement them in net-centric and cloud-based
systems.

A summer research intern is needed to prototype novel concepts for
intelligence data exploitation based on online gaming and/or crowd
sourcing. Citizen science projects such as Foldit and Stardust at home
effectively harness the efforts of amateur volunteers using the
internet. Games with a Purpose (gwap.com) produce valuable human click
work, such as image tagging, at large scales by offering
entertainment. Similar concepts could be developed to improve and
stimulate the analysis of intelligence data by non-experts. Possible
data sources include video, imagery, radar data, or text.

Ideal candidates will be working toward a BS or an MS in Computer
Science. Good coding skills in a high level language such as Java or
Python in a networked environment are required. Experience with html,
web applications/services, and game engines is a plus.



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Jayson Lynch
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