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Posted to dev@mahout.apache.org by Sean Owen <sr...@gmail.com> on 2010/07/13 12:58:18 UTC
[REPORT] Apache Mahout
=== Mahout Status Report: July 2010 ===
ISSUES
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
CURRENT ACTIVITY
The project continues to target September, 2010 for release of version 0.4.
This is unchanged since the last report. Recent activity in the project
can be viewed here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?
pid=12310751&fixfor=12314396&resolution=1
WEBSITE
The project's website at mahout.apache.org has been completely
redesigned:
http://mahout.apache.org/
GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE
As part of Google's Summer of Code program, Mahout is halfway through
mentoring five projects. The projects will add or enhance capability in
the specific areas of:
- Boltzmann Machines
- Support Vector Machines
- Singular Value Decomposition for recommendations
- Neural network with back propagation learning
- Eigencuts spectral clustering
MAHOUT IN ACTION
The book "Mahout in Action", published by Manning, continues to be
written and is in 2/3 completion review with the publisher.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Mahout's recommender system was presented in the key note and two talks
at the Berlin Buzzwords 2010 event.