I am pleased to announce that Yahoo! Research will be accepting graduate student internship applications for Summer 2007. Accepted MS/PhD students will have the opportunity to work at one of our three research labs (Silicon Valley, Southern California, and New York), collaborating with Yahoo!’s top scientists. We expect that a summer internship at Yahoo! will be challenging and intellectually stimulating, but we also strive to make it a fun experience for our interns. Our 2006 program was a big success and we are looking forward to a bigger and better program in 2007.

Yahoo! Research has very active research programs in search (information retrieval, Web analysis, graph theory, data mining, and recommender systems), machine learning, community systems (large-scale databases and distributed systems), media experiences and design, and microeconomics, and we strongly encourage students working in any of the above areas to apply. Students at Yahoo! Research not only benefit from working side-by-side with top researchers in their fields, but also from accessing Yahoo!’s unique, large-scale datasets to test their hypotheses and systems.

I would appreciate it if you could inform your faculty and graduate students about our summer internship program. Note that our application deadline is February 15, 2007, and candidates can apply at http://research.yahoo.com/static_jobs under the Research Interns section at the bottom of the page. The internships typically begin in May or June and run for three months, and we will notify the candidates by March 15, 2007 if they are offered the internships. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. - Ron Brachman