Archive for August, 2010

Apache Mahout catching on in Academia

It’s back to school time and for those with academic interests in machine learning, it’s great to see Apache Mahout is catching on in academic circles, in addition to commercial circles.  The interest is no doubt due to its open code, active community and focus on real world machine learning techniques.  The first class based [...]

Upcoming Apache Lucene and Solr public trainings

Erik Hatcher and I are once again offering our Lucene and Solr training classes, but this time there are two opportunities to participate.  The first will be at Lucene Revolution on October 5 and 6.  The second is on Nov. 1st and 2nd at ApacheCon NA 2010.  Both classes are designed to get people up [...]

Next Meeting: Triangle HUG

The next TriHUG meeting has been announced:  Sept. 14.  There will be two speakers: Wei Wei on Practical Hadoop Security and Me on Hadoop and Lucene and Solr. For more info and to RSVP, see Triangle Hadoop Users Group.

Authors’ Podcast: Lucene in Action, Second Edition

My podcast with Lucene In Action 2 (http://lucene.li/e) co-authors Erik Hatcher, Michael McCandless and Otis Gospodnetic is now live: Authors’ Podcast: Lucene in Action, Second Edition | Lucid Imagination. Hope you enjoy!