Andy Oram recently commented on Massachusetts’ newest open government venture, Open Checkbook. Oram writes, “On December 5, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joined with state treasurer Steven Grossman to create an open government initiative with the promising moniker Open Checkbook. The site launched to some acclaim and has received over 220,000 hits. I decided to take a look at what’s offered and what’s missing from this site, and to ask someone in the government here in Massachusetts to describe their thinking in creating the site. The results can give us some insight into the effort it takes at each stage to release government data–and even more significantly, what it takes to increase the data’s value.” Read more

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O’Reilly Media is looking for a Publishing Technology Engineer in Cambridge, MA. The post states, “The Publishing Technology Engineer is responsible for O’Reilly Media’s complete print and digital publishing stack. The PTE maintains the various pieces of this technology stack, and identifies and implements improvements. The PTE acts as a liaison between the publishing division and O’Reilly’s central information technology group and leads technology-related integration efforts between the two groups. The PTE architects and directs Publishing Tools staff in software development for enhancements and additions to existing infrastructure.” Read more

Aptima is looking for Human Language Technologies Scientists/Engineers in Woburn, MA; Washington, DC; or Dayton, OH. According to the post, the company “currently has openings for passionate, creative Scientist/Engineers interested in working on a variety of applied projects related to topics such as Statistical Modeling, Human Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, and Computational Linguistics. Most of our work with these technologies involves applying existing methods and integrating them with other capabilities to address particular customer problems or evaluating the use of such methods for such problems. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in problem analysis, mathematical formulation, algorithm development, model implementation and analysis.” Read more

Aptima is looking for a Human Language Technologies Scientist/Engineer in Woburn, MA; Washington DC; or Dayton, OH. According to the post, “Aptima currently has openings for passionate, creative Scientist/Engineers interested in working on a variety of applied projects related to topics such as Statistical Modeling, Human Language Technologies, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, and Computational Linguistics. Most of our work with these technologies involves applying existing methods and integrating them with other capabilities to address particular customer problems or evaluating the use of such methods for such problems. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in problem analysis, mathematical formulation, algorithm development, model implementation and analysis.” Read more

Basis Technology is searching for a Software Architect in Cambridge, MA. The company is looking for someone “to lead a team through the exciting process of building a world-class text analytics solutions platform that combines scalable processing and flexible UI. Successful candidates will have a strong affinity for Java-based solutions and a proven track record of Agile technical leadership in designing and implementing complex systems of many components that scale across systems and clusters.” Read more

ZoomInfo is looking for a Software Engineer in Waltham, MA. According to the post, the company is looking for someone to “Be a major player in a company that’s on the cutting-edge of semantic technology. Work with cutting-edge technology like EC2, Hadoop, Solr, JBoss, and Hibernate. Work with enormous data sets — our database has over 10 billion records extracted from the Web. Solve interesting and challenging problems alongside a great team of engineers. Develop new skills as you push your knowledge — and our technology — to new levels.” Read more

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Molecular Diagnostics program is looking for a Data Scientist/Programmer in Cambridge, MA. According to the post, “Molecular Diagnostics (MDx) is seeking a full-time data scientist/programmer to support our bioinformatics and statistics teams. This is an excellent opportunity to develop as a data programmer while gaining exposure to cutting edge problems in the growing field of personalized medicine. The individual will work as an integral member of our global team, centered in Cambridge, MA. We provide a full benefits package and salary is competitive. Professional development is supported.” Read more

The Harvard Medical School is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Boston, MA. The post states, “Reporting to the Director of Informatics Technology, this position will be responsible for developing innovative software tools, applications, services, networks and databases that are mission critical to the success of the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) at Harvard Medical School. The person in this role will be a senior contributor to the leading edge eagle-i project (eagle-I. org). The eagle-i project is a nationwide discovery network for biomedical research resources. Eagle-i is a Semantic Web system that is ontology driven and embraces Linked Open Data principles. The person in this position will work with directors, technical leadership and users in order to design code and deploy tools that will be used nationally by biomedical researchers.” Read more

O’Reilly Media is looking for a Publishing Technology Engineer in Cambridge, MA. The post states, “The Publishing Technology Engineer is responsible for O’Reilly Media’s complete print and digital publishing stack. The PTE maintains the various pieces of this technology stack, and identifies and implements improvements. The PTE acts as a liaison between the publishing division and O’Reilly’s central information technology group and leads technology-related integration efforts between the two groups. The PTE architects and directs Publishing Tools staff in software development for enhancements and additions to existing infrastructure.” Read more

ISYS Technologies is looking for a Web Developer in Woods Hole, MA, to “implement and extend the open source code base of Esri Geoportal to ensure that it provides adequate geospatial and faceted browse functionality… Develop and operate programs to convert databases and ontologies from MRIB and other CMGP legacy data systems into RDF and XML formats compatible with the new semantic technologies. This may include: SKOS representations of the MRIB and InfoBank classification systems.  OWL representation of correspondences and relationships with classes in the Client Thesaurus. The National Map, and NBII Ontology. Conversion of the MRIB and InfoBank metadata collections to standard XML formats.” Read more