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This summer we were lucky to have a rockstar set of interns on our tech team. Here’s just a quick look at some of what they accomplished this summer: Andersen Chen worked on models for estimating the way student proficiencies change over time. Most existing methods are focused on point estimates resulting from tests and surveys, so they don’t concern themselves with how students improve over time — but that’s exactly what we’re focused on!  Andersen worked with… Read more

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Check out the latest post on the Knewton tech blog, written by one of our star summer interns, Harvard student Joy Zheng. Here’s a sneak peek: THE PROBLEM How do you quickly visualize and validate data in a large-scale, distributed, and real-time system? How do you make it deployable in multiple cloud environments? And how do you track changes to this data over time? These are questions that I set out to answer in my… Read more

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I still remember when I first came to Knewton for my interview over two years ago. I said I was interested in marketing. I was told I could start off in academics drafting verbal coursework. The director assured me that there were plenty of opportunities for “cross-pollination” (at the time, I thought this was an original metaphor ). Within a few days, I started blogging for the marketing team. Within a few months, I was… Read more

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This post was written by Zlata Barshteyn, a former intern here at Knewton.  Every few months at Knewton, we have something called Hack Day, where team members take a day off from regular work tasks to tackle projects they’ve been itching to develop. These “hacks” typically fall into one of four categories: product, business, culture, or performance. A Robot for the Office For my Hack Day project, I worked with my mentor on building a… Read more

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