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Internship opportunities: Spreadsheet Experience and Technology

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
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Degree level
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English (Fluent)

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The spreadsheet has continually evolved to remain at the forefront of productivity tools and work practices for over forty years. For example, today’s spreadsheets embrace collaboration, serve as databases, are mobile, and encompass AI-powered interaction via natural language.

However, the soul of the spreadsheet is still the grid, and its formulas. Indeed, spreadsheets are the world’s most widely-used programming technology – but they also embody apparently-fundamental limitations. We are working on foundational ideas that will take a qualitative step forward, to extend dramatically the reach of what end users can do with spreadsheets.

We are looking for interns to join an ambitious, multidisciplinary research team on the future of work, and spreadsheets in particular. We work in deep collaboration with the Excel team in Microsoft Office on Project Yellow, bringing new data types and other features to Excel.

By way of general background, you may want to read Simon Peyton Jones et al’s papers “A user-centred approach to functions in Excel” and “Champagne Prototyping: A Research Technique for Early Evaluation of Complex End-User Programming Systems”.

There is no closing deadline for this post. The post will be filled once suitable candidates are found so if you are interested please apply as soon as possible.

Qualifications

We hope to hire interns during 2019 with a focus on using insights from functional programming to improve the experience of using spreadsheets.

The exact internship project will be chosen to fit the expertise of successful applicants, but we are interested in a broad range of areas including:

  • Improving the experience of authoring formulas in a spreadsheet
  • Compiling spreadsheets for faster execution
  • Using insights from type systems, static analysis, and machine learning to catch spreadsheet errors sooner
  • Synthesis of formulas and data transformations
  • Demonstrating radical improvements in the range of applications that can be tackled with spreadsheets, without loss to usability and accessibility to non-experts.
  • We are looking for interns with expertise in programming-languages, HCI and user experience, or machine learning. There is a genuine possibility that your work could have real-world impact.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

We offer a competitive salary.

In the UK we share Microsoft’s global vision to empower every person and organisation to achieve more; but we also pursue a wide range of initiatives with particular resonance and relevance to the UK. From working responsibly and sustainably to ensuring that the technology we create makes life better - not just for our customers, partners and employees, but for…


In the UK we share Microsoft’s global vision to empower every person and organisation to achieve more; but we also pursue a wide range of initiatives with particular resonance and relevance to the UK. From working responsibly and sustainably to ensuring that the technology we create makes life better - not just for our customers, partners and employees, but for everyone. That’s why we are constantly investing in three key areas:

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