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IMUG: The Power of Plain Text with Ken Lunde

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Administrator

Dr. Ken Lunde of Adobe did a talk on “The Power of Plain Text” at IMUG tonite. “This presentation will cover the basics of “plain text” and its importance in providing meaningful content, and will explore some recent developments in … Continue reading →

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ACCU Meeting: A Tour of a Modern Search Engine with Hugh Williams

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Administrator

Tonite at ACCU in Mountain View, Hugh Williams talked about “A Tour of a Modern Search Engine.” Dr. Hugh Williams has spent the past sixteen years researching and developing search engines and web services. He is presently the Vice President … Continue reading →

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IMUG: Translation Tools in the Cloud: TermWiki & ReviewIT

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Administrator

Uwe Muegge and Matt Arney from CSOFT gave a talk on their TermWiki & ReviewIT localization tools at IMUG tonite. I watched the lecture via Adobe Connect webcast, which worked fairly smoothly. Thanks again to Adobe for hosting the meeting.

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User Group: Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup, December 2010

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Administrator

I went to the Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup tonite at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. There were 3 talks: “Lucene/Solr search in HP Information Management Products” Samuel A. Fineberg, Ph.D, Distinguished Technologist/Technical Strategist, HP Software and Solutions, Information Management Group “Lucid … Continue reading →

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ACCU: Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing with Matt Austern

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Administrator

Matt Austern from Google gave a talk on “Pregel: a system for large-scale graph processing” at ACCU tonite. Pregel is a Google-internal C/STL API for parallel graph algorithm programming and operations. It was named after the Pregel river running under … Continue reading →

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