<p dir="ltr">Are bachelor level students allowed to apply? I have relevant experience in compilers and HPC, and I'd love to work on GHC related things next year. I'm an undergrad, however :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks,<br>
Siddharth</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu 11 Jan, 2018, 22:42 Simon Peyton Jones via Haskell-Cafe, <<a href="mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org">haskell-cafe@haskell.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Happy New Year!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Would anyone like to come to Microsoft Research Cambridge for an internship?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For the first time, this year we have put together a<b>
<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/opportunity/internships-msr-cambridge-uk/" target="_blank">
list of all the open internship slots</a></b>, with brief descriptions and closing dates. This is in part due to our efforts to reach more people, and attract a broader, more diverse range of applicants.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There are lots of projects on that page, but I’d like to highlight one group in particular. I’m personally involved in a project with four intern slots, in which we are
<b>using insights from functional programming got improve the experience of using spreadsheets</b> – the world’s most widely used functional programming languages. This focus on end-user programming means that we need interns with wide interests and skills.
More details are below (copy/pasted from the web page). <b>The application deadline is 31 January 2018</b>. (NB: other slots have other deadlines.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Simon<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<h2 style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Functional programming and spreadsheets<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><u></u><u></u></span></h2>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Supervisors: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/simonpj/" target="_blank">
Simon Peyton Jones</a>, <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/adg/" target="_blank">
Andy Gordon</a>, <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/crusso/" target="_blank">
Claudio Russo</a>, Neil Toronto, <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/advait/" target="_blank">
Advait Sarkar</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Start Date: June/July 2018<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Applications close January 31 2018<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Reference #: MSRC226<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We hope to hire four interns during 2018 with a focus on using insights from functional programming to improve the experience of using
spreadsheets. The exact internship project will be chosen to fit the expertise of successful applicants, but we are interested in a broad range of areas including:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Improving the experience of authoring formulae in a spreadsheet<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Compiling spreadsheets for faster execution<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Using insights from type systems to catch programming errors sooner<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Generalisation and program synthesis<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Demonstrating radical improvements in the range of applications that can be tackled with spreadsheets.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We are looking for
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">three</span></strong> interns with programming-language expertise, and
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">one</span></strong> with a strong background in HCI and user experience.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">You would be working with leaders in both functional programming (Andy Gordon, Simon Peyton Jones) and user experience (Advait Sarkar, Kenton O’Hara). There is a genuine possibility that your work could have real-world impact.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">By way of general background, you may want to read Simon Peyton Jones et al’s papers “<a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=944721" target="_blank">A
user-centred approach to functions in Excel</a>” and “<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1372297/#full-text-section" target="_blank">Champagne Prototyping: A Research Technique for Early Evaluation of Complex End-User Programming Systems</a>”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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