Apache Mahout is an open source project aimed to develop a scalable machine learning library. This is an exciting project. Although machine learning technology has its roots in the field of artificial intelligence, but it has broad application in today's digital world.
In the past, developing sophisticated and scalable machine learning library is limited to academic institutions and commercial companies with a deep pocket and an army of research scientists. I think Mahout is going to change that.
Mahout reminds me of its parent project Lucene, a very successful Apache project created to develop open source library for document search. Before Lucene, it was difficult to create an effective and scalable document search engine. These days with Lucene, developers can easily use it create a custom search engine in a few hours. I'm looking forward to see Mahout everywhere!
Check out Grant Ingersoll's introduction on Apache Mahout.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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