Microsoft Research Open Source Challenge

Now this is interesting. Not often you think of Microsoft and Open Source in the same sentence. Although it does seem to be happening more and more often. This looks like it is for university students. An internship at Microsoft Research would look pretty good on a resume.

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Microsoft Research is delighted to announce its first Open Source Challenge that uses the many and various open source computer science tools from our researchers. From artificial intelligence to programming models, cryptography to education, there is something for every enquiring mind.

See http://aka.ms/opensourcechallenge for full details. Closing date: April 11, 2016.

Professors – please circulate this email to your students.

Experience the power of open source software from a top research lab.

Join students all round the world in solving problems with Microsoft's open source tools.

Win big prizes, or the opportunity to interview for an internship at Microsoft Research.

http://aka.ms/opensourcechallenge