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MGH Laboratory of Quantitative Medicine
Positive Energy

MGH Laboratory of Quantitative Medicine A number of research opportunities are available for undergraduates in our group. The work of our group has concerned:
  • the assembly of data, and the development of improved mathematical methods, for predicting the outcome for cancer patients
  • the identification of screening schedules for reaching the maximal possible reduction in cancer death achievable by cancer screening
  • the analysis of cancer screening usage and the operational details of cancer detection and treatment
  • the application of modern computer speech and telephony for developing scheduling/reminder systems for increasing the use of preventative medical interventions such as mammography and influenza immunization
  • mathematical modeling of embryonic development & the analysis of cell division in the early embryo
  • the three dimensional structure of anatomical structures in the body at the scale between the microscopic and macroscopic
The program is a collaborative project between individuals at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and MIT, and is located in an MGH facility next to MIT in Cambridge.

Please reply by email (with CV if available) to: James S. Michaelson, Ph.D.
JamesMichaelsonPhD@gmail.com
Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine www.lifemath.net
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School & Division of Surgical Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital
65 Landsdown St, 2nd Floor
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Positive Energy USA Want to write code that directly reduces carbon emissions? We have the job for you.

Positive Energy is a fast growing, venture funded startup based in the Washington, DC area that is changing the way people across the country think about, understand, and use energy in their homes.

Co-founded by Alex Laskey and Dan Yates in 2007, Positive Energy is having great success at changing consumer energy behavior and reducing demand on a massive scale. Through a combination of software, behavioral science, and data-driven direct marketing, the company is on track to reducing enough energy use this year to power a city of 75,000 residents.

Starting with 1 utility client in 2007, the company has grown to 7 in 2008, and is now working with over 20 customers in 2009. We are currently 50 people, and are expanding to over 100 in the next 12 months. We closed $14M in Series B funding from NEA (www.nea.com) in Nov 2008.

Our development team is building truly amazing software that does truly amazing things. Our stack is all open source, Java on mySQL, using Jetty, spring and hibernate. We are looking for the best of the best to help us get there faster. If you want to join a small elite team, feel total ownership over their work, and really have a huge impact, then this is the job for you.

For more information on the company, please visit www.positiveenergyusa.com.

We are hiring:

  • Software Engineers: We are looking for you -- a software engineer who wants to work in an environment where creativity is encouraged and rewarded; one who treats engineering as a discipline; a generalist who wants to contribute to all levels of the application, from the database to the client to the tools we use to build.
  • Web Developers:You understand the intricacies of building a web application from the browser to the database.
  • QA Engineers: You love figuring out how software has been built and pride yourself on your ability to break it.

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