Hi, 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 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 (off-list) if you are interested. 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 ... ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
