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Posted to user@mahout.apache.org by Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> on 2011/02/12 18:12:45 UTC
Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
Thanks,
Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Drew Farris <dr...@apache.org>.
Welcome Dmitry and Shannon! Looking forward to working with both of you.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by deneche abdelhakim <ad...@gmail.com>.
Welcome Dmitry and Shannon =D
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their
> continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
> to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph
> or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit
> about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
RE: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Jeff Eastman <je...@Narus.com>.
Welcome aboard Dmitry!
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Ingersoll [mailto:gsingers@apache.org]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 9:13 AM
To: dev@mahout.apache.org; user@mahout.apache.org
Subject: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
Thanks,
Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Sebastian Schelter <ss...@apache.org>.
Welcome Dmitriy!
On 13.02.2011 23:13, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote:
> Thanks Grant and everybody for the welcome,
>
> I am certainly thrilled about being able to participate in Mahout
> effort as a committer.
>
> I am currently working for a small startup company called Inadco as an
> architect. I've been looking to a scalable solution for LSI among
> other things) for several past years, and renewed that effort when i
> joined Inadco. We hope LSI pipeline would help us to assess document
> similarities with some degree of addressing polisemy and synonymy.
> Mahout has an excellent foundation to bootstrap this process:
> pipelines to vectorize text documents with a custom stemmer/analyzer,
> compute tf/idfs, select bigrams/trigrams based on excellent
> log-likelihood method (which i think is based on Ted Dunning's
> 'Surprise and Coincidence' work). And all that capable running on a
> Hadoop infrastructure allowing to compact incredible amount of flops
> into unit of time.
>
> My contribution builds on top of that by introducing MapReduce-only
> Stochastic SVD implementation to the mix (MAHOUT-376, -593). This has
> not been a big priority for the company so far, but we ran and tested
> major steps of our LSI pipeline and i think we will see it thru to
> production in a matter of couple months or so, along with fold-in jobs
> and somewhat slightly "better-than-random-scanning" hbase-based vector
> space indexing.
>
> I think going forward we also have a great interest in dyadic
> regressions with cold starts (we are in a situation where side
> information is extremely sparse), as well as hierarchical document
> clustering. Hopefully, some of those future efforts may result in
> Mahout conributions. But that's company's roadmap, my personal roadmap
> of course does not have to depend on that too closely.:)
>
> Thanks.
> -Dmitriy
>
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Grant Ingersoll<gs...@apache.org> wrote:
>> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>>
>> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Dmitriy Lyubimov <dl...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Grant and everybody for the welcome,
I am certainly thrilled about being able to participate in Mahout
effort as a committer.
I am currently working for a small startup company called Inadco as an
architect. I've been looking to a scalable solution for LSI among
other things) for several past years, and renewed that effort when i
joined Inadco. We hope LSI pipeline would help us to assess document
similarities with some degree of addressing polisemy and synonymy.
Mahout has an excellent foundation to bootstrap this process:
pipelines to vectorize text documents with a custom stemmer/analyzer,
compute tf/idfs, select bigrams/trigrams based on excellent
log-likelihood method (which i think is based on Ted Dunning's
'Surprise and Coincidence' work). And all that capable running on a
Hadoop infrastructure allowing to compact incredible amount of flops
into unit of time.
My contribution builds on top of that by introducing MapReduce-only
Stochastic SVD implementation to the mix (MAHOUT-376, -593). This has
not been a big priority for the company so far, but we ran and tested
major steps of our LSI pipeline and i think we will see it thru to
production in a matter of couple months or so, along with fold-in jobs
and somewhat slightly "better-than-random-scanning" hbase-based vector
space indexing.
I think going forward we also have a great interest in dyadic
regressions with cold starts (we are in a situation where side
information is extremely sparse), as well as hierarchical document
clustering. Hopefully, some of those future efforts may result in
Mahout conributions. But that's company's roadmap, my personal roadmap
of course does not have to depend on that too closely.:)
Thanks.
-Dmitriy
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Lance Norskog <go...@gmail.com>.
Woohoo!
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
--
Lance Norskog
goksron@gmail.com
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Isabel Drost <is...@apache.org>.
On Mon, 14 Feb 11 Robin Anil wrote:
> Welcome both of you! Its a growing herd :P :trumpeting:
A warm welcome to both of you. Great to have you aboard.
Isabel
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Robin Anil <ro...@gmail.com>.
Welcome both of you! Its a growing herd :P :trumpeting:
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Sebastian Schelter <ss...@apache.org>.
Welcome Shannon!
On 14.02.2011 03:06, Shannon Quinn wrote:
> Thank you so much, everyone, for the very warm welcome. I have
> thoroughly enjoyed working on the Mahout project and with the
> community the past several months, so I am very much looking forward
> to continuing to do so in the capacity of a committer.
>
> I'm a first-year PhD student studying computational biology at
> Carnegie Mellon, with a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and
> an MS in computational biology also from Carnegie Mellon. I discovered
> Mahout shortly after delivering my master's thesis, when another PhD
> student mentioned his need for parallelized machine learning
> algorithms for operating on the massive biological datasets his thesis
> entailed.
>
> I delivered my first contribution to Mahout as part of the 2010
> edition of the Google Summer of Code, in the form of the spectral
> clustering algorithms: k-means and eigencuts. The latter is an
> algorithm developed as part of the PhD thesis of a faculty in my PhD
> program, who will likely become one of my advisors. Since this past
> fall, he and I have been conducting research in methods of diagnosing
> a disorder known as Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) using high-speed
> video of the cilia itself.
>
> We've already submitted a poster and a paper on the topic regarding
> some of our preliminary findings (which doesn't involve Mahout), but
> the overall goal of the project is to develop a large-scale
> distributed framework for processing these videos and characterizing
> the motion patterns involved. As such, Mahout will be an integral part
> of this project. Even though I don't have a thesis yet, I'm focusing
> into image/video processing on a parallel environment, which means
> Mahout will very likely be part of my PhD thesis.
>
> So basically, you're all stuck with me now :) I hope to grow into the
> enormous shoes I've been given with the committer title. Very much
> looking forward to continuing to work on this project! Thanks again!
>
> Shannon
>
> On 2/12/11 12:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of
>> their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and
>> Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in
>> giving a warm welcome!
>>
>> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a
>> paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind
>> sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Grant
>
RE: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Jeff Eastman <je...@Narus.com>.
Welcome Shannon! Thanks for your continuing contributions, glad to have you aboard.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Quinn [mailto:squinn.squinn@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Shannon Quinn
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 6:06 PM
To: dev@mahout.apache.org
Subject: Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Thank you so much, everyone, for the very warm welcome. I have
thoroughly enjoyed working on the Mahout project and with the community
the past several months, so I am very much looking forward to continuing
to do so in the capacity of a committer.
I'm a first-year PhD student studying computational biology at Carnegie
Mellon, with a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an MS in
computational biology also from Carnegie Mellon. I discovered Mahout
shortly after delivering my master's thesis, when another PhD student
mentioned his need for parallelized machine learning algorithms for
operating on the massive biological datasets his thesis entailed.
I delivered my first contribution to Mahout as part of the 2010 edition
of the Google Summer of Code, in the form of the spectral clustering
algorithms: k-means and eigencuts. The latter is an algorithm developed
as part of the PhD thesis of a faculty in my PhD program, who will
likely become one of my advisors. Since this past fall, he and I have
been conducting research in methods of diagnosing a disorder known as
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) using high-speed video of the cilia itself.
We've already submitted a poster and a paper on the topic regarding some
of our preliminary findings (which doesn't involve Mahout), but the
overall goal of the project is to develop a large-scale distributed
framework for processing these videos and characterizing the motion
patterns involved. As such, Mahout will be an integral part of this
project. Even though I don't have a thesis yet, I'm focusing into
image/video processing on a parallel environment, which means Mahout
will very likely be part of my PhD thesis.
So basically, you're all stuck with me now :) I hope to grow into the
enormous shoes I've been given with the committer title. Very much
looking forward to continuing to work on this project! Thanks again!
Shannon
On 2/12/11 12:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Shannon Quinn <sq...@gatech.edu>.
Thank you so much, everyone, for the very warm welcome. I have
thoroughly enjoyed working on the Mahout project and with the community
the past several months, so I am very much looking forward to continuing
to do so in the capacity of a committer.
I'm a first-year PhD student studying computational biology at Carnegie
Mellon, with a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and an MS in
computational biology also from Carnegie Mellon. I discovered Mahout
shortly after delivering my master's thesis, when another PhD student
mentioned his need for parallelized machine learning algorithms for
operating on the massive biological datasets his thesis entailed.
I delivered my first contribution to Mahout as part of the 2010 edition
of the Google Summer of Code, in the form of the spectral clustering
algorithms: k-means and eigencuts. The latter is an algorithm developed
as part of the PhD thesis of a faculty in my PhD program, who will
likely become one of my advisors. Since this past fall, he and I have
been conducting research in methods of diagnosing a disorder known as
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) using high-speed video of the cilia itself.
We've already submitted a poster and a paper on the topic regarding some
of our preliminary findings (which doesn't involve Mahout), but the
overall goal of the project is to develop a large-scale distributed
framework for processing these videos and characterizing the motion
patterns involved. As such, Mahout will be an integral part of this
project. Even though I don't have a thesis yet, I'm focusing into
image/video processing on a parallel environment, which means Mahout
will very likely be part of my PhD thesis.
So basically, you're all stuck with me now :) I hope to grow into the
enormous shoes I've been given with the committer title. Very much
looking forward to continuing to work on this project! Thanks again!
Shannon
On 2/12/11 12:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Dmitriy Lyubimov <dl...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Grant and everybody for the welcome,
I am certainly thrilled about being able to participate in Mahout
effort as a committer.
I am currently working for a small startup company called Inadco as an
architect. I've been looking to a scalable solution for LSI among
other things) for several past years, and renewed that effort when i
joined Inadco. We hope LSI pipeline would help us to assess document
similarities with some degree of addressing polisemy and synonymy.
Mahout has an excellent foundation to bootstrap this process:
pipelines to vectorize text documents with a custom stemmer/analyzer,
compute tf/idfs, select bigrams/trigrams based on excellent
log-likelihood method (which i think is based on Ted Dunning's
'Surprise and Coincidence' work). And all that capable running on a
Hadoop infrastructure allowing to compact incredible amount of flops
into unit of time.
My contribution builds on top of that by introducing MapReduce-only
Stochastic SVD implementation to the mix (MAHOUT-376, -593). This has
not been a big priority for the company so far, but we ran and tested
major steps of our LSI pipeline and i think we will see it thru to
production in a matter of couple months or so, along with fold-in jobs
and somewhat slightly "better-than-random-scanning" hbase-based vector
space indexing.
I think going forward we also have a great interest in dyadic
regressions with cold starts (we are in a situation where side
information is extremely sparse), as well as hierarchical document
clustering. Hopefully, some of those future efforts may result in
Mahout conributions. But that's company's roadmap, my personal roadmap
of course does not have to depend on that too closely.:)
Thanks.
-Dmitriy
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
Re: Welcome new committers: Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov
Posted by Drew Farris <dr...@apache.org>.
Welcome Dmitry and Shannon! Looking forward to working with both of you.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the Mahout PMC has, in recognition of their continued contributions to Mahout, elected Shannon Quinn and Dmitry Lyubimov to be committers on the project. Please join me in giving a warm welcome!
>
> Dmitry and Shannon, it's customary for new committers to write a paragraph or so of introduction about themselves, if you don't mind sharing a bit about yourself and how you use Mahout.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant