From day one you’ll be given a meaningful assignment that will make a real impact on our business, our hundreds of millions of users—and on your future career and the opportunities that will be available to you. 

Our intern program is a great way to discover first hand what life at Yahoo! will be like. There will be no fake projects or mail room sorting during your summer with us. You will tackle live problems and help find real solutions. Your summer will be loaded with parties, networking socials and career exploration, but most of all your summer will be full of life changing experiences and people. Come help us personalize the digital world and keep consumers plugged into the topics and people they care about most.

Apply Here:Technical Summer Internship

Yahoo! Labs is looking for exceptional PhD students to work with us in our intern program for the summer of 2013. We seek world-class graduate students in pursuit of a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related area. We are particularly interested in students working on Machine Learning, algorithms, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, HCI, Multimedia, Mobile Innovations, search (systems or algorithms), collaborative filtering, auctions, mechanism design, linear algebra, Systems or analysis of large data. Ideal candidates will have finished at least 2 years of graduate work.

Interns are expected to work with our scientists to perform original research, apply scientific thinking and techniques to improve the performance and effectiveness of our products, and solve problems for our users and advertisers by analyzing mountains of data. They will have the opportunity to publish their work and expand the horizons of web science. 



Candidates will need an up-to-date CV, plus a letter of recommendation from their graduate advisor. 



What are you waiting for?? Apply today! http://y.ahoo.it/uhMpv

The Academic Relations team has partnered with Technology and Operations on a new initiative called Y! STAR (Yahoo! Servers To Academic Researchers) under which Yahoo! is refurbishing and donating decommissioned servers to university researchers. Through this cooperative program these retired servers are finding second lives at top universities as enablers of cutting-edge academic research in disciplines of direct relevance to Yahoo!.

With the delivery of 257 machines to Carnegie Mellon, shipments under Y! STAR now total over 1,500 servers valued at well over $600,000 to 30 leading researchers at 23 of the top universities in the country. The machines are enabling research that was previously impossible in areas such as data-intensive computing and data center power management/efficiency, as well as providing unprecedented hands-on education opportunities. Such enhanced capabilities will result in greater collaboration between these top researchers, and Yahoo! scientists and engineers, and will greatly enhance Yahoo!’s ability to successfully recruit the graduate students who work with the donated computers. The program has been extremely well-received by faculty and students, and has tremendously enhanced Yahoo!’s campus presence and visibility.



 

Check out some of the testimonials from the recipients below!

Anthony Tomasic, Carnegie Mellon University:
 The server cluster donated by the Y! STAR donation program helps both research and teaching here at Carnegie Mellon University. The cluster has been very, very useful, first because it speeds up our computations by a factor of 30 or so, allowing some experiments to be run in a day, instead of a month. Second, the cluster gives students the learning experience of wrestling with real hardware, which is a powerful complement to the considerations of computation in the abstract.

Mike Cafarella, University of Michigan:
 My students are currently using the Yahoo! machines to build a debugger for data-intensive programs. It is often very difficult to debug a program that is run on billions of individual inputs (say, all the pages on the Web). Even if the user's program is very simple, the sheer diversity of inputs means the user must tackle a huge number of corner cases to ensure the program is correct; this makes for a very frustrating and error-prone development process. The system my students are building tries to address this problem by giving the user statistically-generated hints about where the bugs are likely to be found. It runs user programs on a sample of the huge input set, gathering statistics about program execution on each individual input. It then mines the resulting statistics for clues as to where the user's program might contain a bug (using techniques in the past have been used for finding product associations).

Mor Naaman, Rutgers:
 The Y! Star servers at Rutgers will be set up in a Hadoop cluster, and will be used for various Data Science activities, amongst other uses. In one example, the clusters will host a set of 500,000,000 Twitter posts from various geographic locations, and will enable distributed, efficient, low-latency analysis of trends and data available from these messages about the different geographic locations. In another example, large-scale network analysis on various network datasets would be made possible by these machines, improving the opportunity for the study of these networks at a scale never before available.

Jignesh Patel, University of Wisconsin:
 Large computing clusters consume a tremendous amount of energy to run data intensive and compute intensive workloads. The focus of this work is on designing methods to improve the energy efficiency of clusters by designing, developing and implementing techniques that allow the cluster to reduce the energy management by employing smarter energy-efficient job scheduling and/or data placement. A key focus of this project is on designing methods that reduce energy consumption for a small or no change in the overall job running response time/placement.

David Blei, Princeton University: 
We are using the Yahoo!-donated computers for distributed computing in machine learning applications. They enable us to handle much larger data sets than we would otherwise be able to analyze. As an example, we were recently able to analyze 1.8 million New York Times articles with the donated cluster.



Pramod Kumar, Georgia Tech:
 The Yahoo! servers will be deployed in racks within the Consortium for Energy Efficient Thermal Management (CEETHERM) Data Center Laboratory, as well as within the College of Computing labs. The CEETHERM laboratory is heavily instrumented and allows the monitoring of various IT level parameters, such as server powers, as well as facility parameters, such as CRAC blower speeds, chiller supply temperatures and air temperatures at various locations within the facility. It communicates with the College of Computing facility via high speed campus connectivity. This allows the exploration of the combined optimization paradigm within a distributed data center facility.

This summer, Yahoo’s interns had the opportunity to partner up with TOMS Shoes in efforts to make a difference in children’s lives by joining the “One for One” movement. With every pair that Yahoo purchased, TOMS donated a new pair to a child in need. Our interns creatively personalized and designed  each pair and participated in a shoe drive donation drop off at KAFPA, Northern California’s largest kinship, adoptive, and foster parent association and volunteer non-profit organization. It was wonderful to witness the excitement and smiles. Thank you to the University Recruiting Team, our interns, and TOMS Shoes for a successful and humbling experience!

Join the Yahoo! University team as we travel around the country looking for the best of the best to fill our summer internships and new college grad positions. We will be rolling out the purple carpet and hosting info sessions, networking socials, career fairs and more.

Come visit us and show us what you got! This season come say hi to us at:

It’s 3 a.m. and piles of sleep deprived students line the hallways around campus, happily coding away. Those who are used to pulling all-nighters remain glued to the faded light of their computer screens, stocked with energy drinks and snacks in an effort to stay focused on their project and fight the urge to sleep. Some find comfort in the space they’ve claimed on the floor – a makeshift workstation created with nothing more than a backpack as a “chair” to lean against. Others huddle around tables desperately fixing bugs and trying to figure out what features should come next. The students will take different approaches but one things remains true for everyone…they have less than ten hours to complete their dream project so they have to think quickly! This scene depicts what some students still refer to as the “coolest thing they’ve done in their entire university career- Yahoo!'s Hack U!.

Yahoo! has been bringing the excitement of Hack U™ to university campuses for over five years. During the course of one academic year, top developers from Yahoo! fly out to a select number of universities across the country to teach a series of web technology workshops and classes, and then host a 24-hour coding competition with plenty of caffeine, food, music, camaraderie, demos and awards. Hack U™ is not about perfect code – it’s about learning new things, fostering community, inspiring creativity and bringing a cool idea to life.

Throughout the years, the hack program has changed quite a bit as web programming tools and technology have become better, more open and accessible to computer programmers. This new level of quality and access to technology has raised the bar and these days students are developing hacks that could actually turn into start-ups or become a real product, app or feature. This caught the attention of several top technology companies and VCs who are now consistently looking to this bright young group of developers for fresh product ideas, technical feedback and of course, top talent.

Today you’ll find Facebook, Microsoft and others have joined Yahoo! in hosting their versions of all night university hackathons – a move which has created a terrific opportunity for students around the world to dream big and showcase their skills and ideas to top engineering teams at these companies.

University student groups such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) love these hack competitions so much that they’re no longer waiting for a company to host an event on their campus. Several schools are now organizing their own hack competitions and inviting the companies to participate as category sponsors. This student-run format creates an even wider playing field for the students, one that has opened the door for partnerships with nonprofits and government organizations. The students are thrilled to work with organizations such as RHOK which provides them with the opportunity to work on solutions for real problems facing the world today.

Whether students are hacking to solve a problem, connect with friends, build their dream app, find an exciting career opportunity, showcase their big idea to a VC or save the world – it’s clear that they love to innovate and hack – in whatever form it may take. Hack on!

For more information on Yahoo!’s Hack U™ program, go to http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku/

- Jamie Lockwood, Hack U™ Program Manager
Originally posted on Yahoo! on Campus Blog