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…
Big Search for Big Data: The Screencast
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…
Our own Matt Overstreet introducing Aneesh Chopra at RVA Startup Weekend!
Matt Overstreet was the Master of Ceremonies for the Richmond Startup Weekend earlier this month. And the guest speaker was Aneesh Chopra, first CTO of the United States. Matt…
Indexing Big Data on Amazon AWS: The Screencast
My colleague Scott Stults talks about our experiences in using Amazon EC2 to perform distributed indexing into Solr as well as reprocessing a million TIFF images. At one point…
LuceneRevolution 2012 Recap
I went to LuceneRevolution to test out my assertion that Search is the dominant metaphor for working with Big Data and based on the conversations that I had, that…
HIMSS HealthIT Wrapup
After a couple of exhausting days at HIMSS last week, where I was overwhelmed both by being a first time visitor to the glitz of Las Vegas and the…
Search Engine Testing and Apache Lucene Eurocon Oh My!
Eric Pugh got notified today that hes been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search…
Scott Stults to Speak on Solr Security at the Solr and Text Analytics Conference
Were thrilled to announce that Scott Stults was presented to speak on the topic of Multi-Level Security (MLS) with Solr at the Open Source Search Conference: Lucene and Solr…
Eric Pugh to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at STPCon
Im very excited to be returning to another edition of STPCon, this year in Nashville! This year I will be unveiling a new talk: Better Search Engine Testing, as…