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…
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 Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) re:Invent conference is one of the biggest cloud conferences in the world. With over 18,000 people in…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Better late then never, here is the screencast of my presentation Big Search for Big Data that I gave at LuceneRevolution. Its a story of the mistakes and victories…
