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Apache Mahout for Intelligent Data Analysis

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The amount of data that is available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection is difficult to comphrehend and increasing daily.  At the same time, the cost of the hardware needed to store large quantities of this available data is dropping...

0 replies - 4371 views - 11/20/11 by David Pell in Articles

Devoxx: The story so far

European conferences are different (and cool) because you get to hear even more languages spoken than you usually do in London (apparently the most diverse city in the world for spoken languages).

0 replies - 2545 views - 11/17/11 by Trisha Gee in Articles

My Devoxx Discoveries of the Year

Every year, the main reason why I go to Devoxx is to discover new stuff. For me it’s all about technology watch. The internet and RSS feeds are my main tech watch instrument but there is one thing that is harder to get through RSS: feelings. Conferences...

0 replies - 9255 views - 11/29/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

Update on Closures Coming to Java 7

It was announced yesterday that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7.  Three proposals for closures were...

40 replies - 21950 views - 11/19/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

The Examination Timetabling Problem

Next week I 'll give a presentation about the timetabling problem at Devoxx. But what is it exactly? In the examination timetabling problem we need to assign exams to periods (AKA timeslots) and to rooms. Each student takes several exams. This would be easy,...

4 replies - 5501 views - 11/11/09 by Geoffrey De Smet in Articles