Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

I’ve done two new podcasts, one with independent Lucene/Solr/Mahout consultant Karl Wettin and Netflix’s search guru Walter Underwood.  As always, transcripts are provided (how else do you make it searchable?)

I did an interview with Ryan Slobojan over at InfoQ on Mahout.  You can read the details at: InfoQ: Apache Mahout: Highly Scalable Machine Learning Algorithms.

Lucid Imagination Enterprise Search using Apache Lucene and Solr.
Lucid (my employer) is holding it’s first webinar on using Lucene and Solr to index and search your data.  You can sign up at the link above.  Erik Hatcher, co-author of “Lucene In Action” will be leading it.

Whew.  I just sent out the announcement for the release of Apache Mahout 0.1.  Congrats and thanks to everyone in Mahout land for all their hard work, especially all the other committers.
For those who don’t know about Mahout, it’s primary goal is to develop a suite of machine learning libraries under the Apache license.  Other [...]