Internships are available at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, for this summer. More information is available here: http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/jobs/internships/ Internships are usually for graduate students (PhD or Masters) and last 12 weeks (although longer projects are also possible). Furthermore, although there is a deadline of *28 Feb* for the main batch of summer internships, MSR is now taking interns year-round, a non-summer internship may even be easier to arrange (because it misses the Big Rush). The reason for this mail is to highlight the fact that Simon & I would particularly like to encourage applicants interested in working on Haskell-related projects. We have a number of projects in mind, but feel free to suggest your own: - Parallel garbage collection: to complement GHC's new support for SMP parallelism, replacing single-threaded garbage collection with parallel GC is a high priority goal, with plenty of interesting research too. - Parallel Haskell applications: investigate using SMP/multicore parallelism for real, either implicit parallelism or using concurrency & STM, by tackling some applications. - Haskell debugging in GHCi: we have some ideas for building a debugger into GHCi, there are some research angles here too. - GHC as a library: we have made a start on providing a library interface to GHC, but there is much left to do. Re-targetting Haddock on top of GHC would make a good project, for example. - C-- code generation: we have a project student working on C-- code gen, but there's a lot to do here. The ultimate goal is to divide the code generator into two: first generate C-- and then CPS-convert it into C-- with only tail calls, suitable for generating code using the existing paths (native code and via-C) too. Let us know by email if you apply. Good luck! Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow