The Annual Search Shootout – Testing strategy on 2019’s topics
This post is part of a series I’ve been writing about participating in TREC 2020’s News Track. This post is a visual report of the retrieval performance we observed…
The Annual Search Shootout – how we’re competing at TREC to build better news recommendation
What exactly is TREC? If you’re involved in search, you have likely heard about TREC. TREC is short for the Text REtrieval Conference. This annual conference has been running…
Haystack 2020 retrospective – going virtual
Two weeks ago we ran our first ever virtual relevance conference – Haystack 2020, as part of a combined week of events including Berlin Buzzwords and MICES, the e-commerce…
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas
Recap of AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) re:Invent conference is one of the biggest cloud conferences in the world. With over 18,000 people in…
Recap of Lucene Revolution 2015 in Austin
Every one of us at OSC looks forward to Lucene Revolution. It’s one of the few conferences we attend where everyone understands search at a deep level. That means…
Talking Search and Discovery to Exploit Data at Enterprise Data World 2014
As a search guy, I think of data as something to exploit in order to solve some business objective, with a focus on moving data along the axis of…
Datastax MVPs for Cassandra
Last month, John and I were named Datastax MVPs for Cassandra at the Cassandra Summit EU in London, and have now joined the rest of the Datastax Rebel Elite,…
OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…
Conference Recap: Defcon
Last week I went to Defcon, the premiere security conference that attracted 15,000 security experts and Will Smith to Las Vegas. Here are a few lessons I learned hanging…
Tomorrow is Semantic Day at OpenSource Connections
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
Forget Search, Lets Talk Discovery – A Recap of Enterprise Search Summit
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
How cloud computing is revolutionizing pharma and genomics
Yesterday I attended an event hosted by Booz Allen/Amazon around Big Data and Cloud Computing for life sciences. It was a fascinating event that brought together folks from data…