Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

Apache Mahout - Overview
It’s official!  Mahout is now an official subproject of Lucene at the Apache Software Foundation.  Mahout’s goal is to create a suite of practical, scalable machine learning libraries.

The Two Flavors of Google
Nice article on Hadoop at Business Week and some good quotes from Lucene Java creator Doug Cutting.  Hadoop holds a lot of promise for the future of large scale computing, although I don’t want to burden it with that kind of claim, either.  In the end, it makes solving a good [...]