Nuria Oliver, a former Microsoft Research employee, is looking for interns and researchers for an R&D outfit in Barcelona Spain. There could be worse gigs.

"Interested in doing research in a top team while living in vibrant Barcelona (Spain)? The newly formed Multimedia Research Group at Telefonica R&D is accepting intern applications to carry out research in the areas of:
Multimedia Data Analysis, Retrieval and Search
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Multi-modal User Interfaces
User Modeling and Personalization"

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"The newly formed research group on Multimedia at Telefónica R&D* Barcelona invites for applications for Researcher positions in the areas of Multimedia Data Analysis, Search and Retrieval, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing and Human Computer Interaction. We are looking for dynamic, creative and resourceful individuals to join our research efforts in Multimedia Computing. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary and international team of scientists dedicated tsolve challenging user-oriented problems. "

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