Triangle Java Users Group Presents:

Introduction to scalable machine learning with Apache Mahout

presented by Grant Ingersoll

Monday, February 15, 2010
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

NOTICE: The February 2010 Java User Group meeting location will be at Red Hat at 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh NC. Here is the link:
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Abstract:

In this introductory talk, Mahout co-founder Grant Ingersoll will introduce the Apache Mahout project and its approach for solving machine learning problems, using Java, in a scalable, open source way. The talk will provide some preliminary background on machine learning along with demonstrations of solutions for common use cases.

About the Speakers:

Grant Ingersoll is a founder and member of the technical staff at Lucid Imagination. Grant's programming interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text categorization, and extraction. Grant is the co-founder of the Apache Mahout machine-learning project, as well as a committer and speaker on both the Apache Lucene and Apache Solr projects. He is also the co-author of Taming Text (Manning, forthcoming) covering open source tools for natural-language processing.

6:30 - 7:00 PM -- Meet, Talk, Pizza
7:00 - 7:15 -- JUG Business and Announcements
7:15 - 8:15 -- Presentation
8:15 - 8:30 -- Discussion with Presenter
8:30 -- Raffle
9:00 - Doors close

Admission:
Paid-up members of TriJUG may attend without additional charge. Non members are asked to pay $5 per meeting. But, if you are either a full time student or unemployed, then we ask only $2 per meeting.

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