Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

SummerOfCode2009 – General Wiki It’s that time of year again.  Time for students to sign up for Google Summer of Code.  Gist of it:  Get paid to work in Open Source for the summer. I’ve signed up to mentor for Apache Mahout.  We are looking for students interested in implementing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, optionally [...]

There will be several Lucene related events at ApacheCon Europe this year: Lucene Boot Camp – A two day training session, March 23 & 24th Solr Boot Camp – A one day training session, March 24th Introducing Apache Mahout – Grant Ingersoll. March 25th @ 10:30 Lucene/Solr Case Studies – Erik Hatcher. March 25th @ [...]

It’s been a while since I reported anything on Mahout (here’s why), but thought I would give an update.  I know it’s been promised before, but the committers have been diligently working on a 0.1 release, which should be out very soon.  I think I have all the Maven release stuff in place and am [...]