Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society is looking for an Intermediate Programmer/Analyst in New York, NY. This position “Will translate outcomes of research to useable tools for professional, non-specialist, users. Maintains and extends our data services framework. Works closely with researchers to streamline, generalize, and/or automate experimentally developed ideas and transition them to operational systems.” Read more

Semantic Tech & Business Conference Returns to San Francisco

Semantic Tech & Business Conference returns to San Francisco in June! Join us from June 3-7 for complete coverage of Big Data, Linked Data, Extreme Information Management, and Semantic Web. From breakthrough approaches to solving business problems to the big data implications of fast–evolving technologies, SemTechBiz provides you with an unparalleled interactive experience and delivers tangible business value. We're offering a special early rate when you register by February 17. Sign up now!

GE’s Global Research Division is looking for a Semantic Lead Scientist in Niskayuna, NY. According to the post, “As a Semantic Lead Scientist, you will work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop tools and ontologies for application to a diverse set of industrial, service and financial problems. You will demonstrate a strong technical background and independently execute projects in areas of model development, semantic and ontology technology specification and development, and information extraction.” Read more

NYC Open Data has created a new Tumblr blog to showcase datasets and visualizations that the organization makes available to developers. According to the blog’s About Us page, “As part of Mayor Bloomberg’s commitment to transparency and innovation, over 800 (and counting!) city datasets are now online for anyone in New York or around the world to explore and access via an API for deeper, real-time integration into apps and websites.” Read more

IBM is looking for a Research Staff Member – Semantic Analysis and Integration in Hawthorne, NY. According to the post, “The Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is seeking Research Staff Members on to work on research and applications of intelligent human language technologies. The project focuses on developing general and reusable Question Answering(QA) systems to achieve reproducible high-performing results for open-domain and specialized-domain question answering.” Read more

The New York Times Company is looking for a Web Developer in New York, NY. The post states, “NYTimes.com is looking for an experienced and self-motivated Web Developer to drive implementiation of our SEO initiatives. This position will deal with all aspects affecting SEO including server configuration, site performance, and monitoring tools. Other responsibilities include ongoing site maintenance and technical documentation. Strong communication skills are a must as this position interacts heavily with many departments within NYTimes.com.” Read more

CAT Technology is looking for a Data Architect for a six month contract assignment with one of their clients in Albany, NY. Responsibilities of the position include: “Lead the development of data models and specifications in a variety of markup language syntaxes: W3C schema, RelaxNG Schema, XML DTDs, RDF. Perform the change control and update process for maintaining modular data markup specifications. Lead the development and maintenance of data transformation scripts. Lead the development and maintenance of data conformance validation. Develop ontology/vocabulary to be shared across disparate content types. Deliver presentations and/or train users on use of data markup, as required. Organize and lead data modeling workshops to develop markup specifications 10. Write documentation for markup specifications and design principles.” Read more

Elsevier is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in New York, NY. The post states, “You would be leading a small team of highly motivated programmers, you would have significant ownership in the delivery of this product. What we need most from this role is an engineer who is a leader, who understands both architecture and team management. We are also very semantically oriented, so if RDF is part and parcel of your vocabulary, we want to talk with you. We want someone who has both experience in software dev and management, but most of all we seek a creative leader who wants to get his(her) hands around a complex and widely scalable system. This is an ASAP hire with an immediate start date.” Read more

Xerox is looking for a Cloud, Social & Web Computing Researcher in Rochester, NY. The post states, “Our lab builds and studies forms of “social software”, including technologies that help people collaborate and share knowledge. Fundamental areas of research interest include but not limited to game theory analysis, user-generated content, social networks, web mining, and collaborative work flows. Applicants must have a strong background in social software design and analysis, and deep expertise in one or more relevant mechanism design areas, including, but not limited to, auction marketplaces, recommendation systems, user-generated content-management systems (such as blogs or wikis), trust algorithms, network science, Web UIs, online collaborative systems, Semantic Web, virtual worlds, and workflow languages/tools.” Read more

Navon Partners is looking for Semantic Web and Corporate Analytics Interns in Manhattan, NY: “We are seeking 1-3 interns who would like to be part of the founding team for an analytic investment bank startup, Navon Partners. We specialize in originating deals for private equity funds in private companies. We use quantitative analysis to source private companies. We use social media, data
mining, and other non-traditional automated sources to pull in data about potential investments. Our process is modeled on the algorithmic, data-driven process used by quantitative hedge funds. We particularly value experience in crunching large and messy data sets.” Learn more and apply here. Read more

Overview, a new open-source visualization software project, is looking for two Developers in New York. The post states, “The project is called Overview. You can read about it at overview.ap.org. It’s going to be a system for the exploration of large to very large collections of unstructured text documents. We’re building it in New York in the main newsroom of The Associated Press, the original all-formats global news network. The AP has to deal with document dumps constantly. We download them from government sites. We file over 1000 freedom of information requests each year. We look at every single leak from Wikileaks, Anonymous, Lulzsec. We’re drowning in this stuff. We need better tools. So does everyone else.” Read more