David Liben-Nowell (dlibenno, CMC 320) announces:

"I am beginning a new research project on patterns of friendship formation, and I am looking for some students (most likely two) to work with me on this project. The immediate short-term goal is to write a crawler for a large online social-networking site; after the data collection, we will work on analyzing particular patterns of friendships within the data. [Click above for more information about the project.] If you are interested, please get in touch with me as soon as possible. I expect you to commit to working on the project through at least Winter and Spring 2007, and preference will be given to students willing to commit to working on this project beyond this academic year (possibly including Summer 2007)."

Sebastian Celis '03, now working for Stellent, tells us that Stellent is currently looking to fill 2 full-time development and 2 summer internship positions. In addition to computer science majors, Stellent is also interested in hiring students with a strong interest in computer science, even if they have a different major. Sebastian will be on campus on Tuesday, November 7, in Sayles 251 from 6-7 pm. Click above for more information.

Jason Lord '06 (econ and studio art) says: "This Thursday, I will be down at Carleton recruiting for my company Dahlen Berg & Co (Avant Energy). The position of First Year Associate is open to anyone with an analytical undergraduate degree. If you are interested in working in the energy industry, want to learn about it, or want to enjoy a free dinner come to the info session! Attached is an information sheet with more information regarding the job posting.

Dahlen Berg's information session is Thursday, October 26 at 7:00pm in Sevy meeting hall. Food will be served!"

There's a new link on our department web page to AfterCollege, who has designed a job opportunities page particularly for Carleton computer science students. Go to our department home page, at http://www.cs.carleton.edu, then click "Career Resources," and then click "Job Resource Center." For more information about this website, click above to read the information that AfterCollege has asked us to forward along.

Fog Creek Software in New York City is looking for summer interns. They pay $750 per week, and that includes free housing, weekday lunches, round-trip airfare, and weekly cultural activities. Application deadline is February 1, though those who apply earlier have a better chance of getting an internship. So apply right away! Click above to see the information that they sent us, or visit the Fog Creek intern website.

Advising Days are coming soon: October 23-31. Click above for descriptions of the computer science and related courses (above CS 127) that will be offered this winter. In addition to your own advisor, remember that you can contact our Student Departmental Advisor (Debbie Chasman, chasmand@carleton.edu) if you have questions.

The annual Carleton All Math and Science Poster Session will be held this Friday, October 20, in Hulings Hall from 3:45-5:00 p.m. Come out and support your friends from across the sciences, and see the research that your peers have done.

The Economics Department is sponsoring an afternoon of interview workshops scheduled for Sunday, October 8. Jeff Gunia '98, currently a Marketing Development Analyst at 3M Company, will be on campus to present his workshops on Behavior-based Interviewing and Case-based Interviewing. Computer Science students are welcome. Click above for more information.

Carleton's Faculty Affairs Committee (FAC) is investigating a streamlined way of running electronic elections for various committee assignments. In recent years, faculty elections have been managed via surveymonkey.com, which lacks the features required by FAC's new ideas. To make FAC's ideas work, we will need a kind of web-based voting tool that does not appear to be available on-line for a low enough price. If you are interested in helping to develop such a tool and you have completed CS127, please contact Jeff Ondich (jondich@carleton.edu, CMC 327). Though no money is available for this project, you could receive credit for Independent Research (CS 292 or 392).

The Xi Chapter of Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science is now accepting applications for the Undergraduate Affiliate Research Award. This $250 award is designed to defray expenses associated with conducting an independent research project under the supervision of a faculty member. The deadline is Monday, October 16, 2006. For more information and an application, please see Amy Csizmar Dalal or go to the GWIS web site.

Carleton alum Kevin Dill '92, of Blue Fang Games, will be visiting campus to talk with students about artificial intelligence in computer games. The talk will be on October 6, at 3:30 PM, in CMC 206. Additionally, Kevin would be happy to go to lunch with students. If you'd like to take Kevin to lunch in order to meet him (and bump elbows for a potential job?), email Dave Musicant (dmusican) to get on the list. For Kevin's biography and more information about the talk that he will give, click above.