Congrats Sean!!!
________________________________ From: Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> To: Mahout User List <user@mahout.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: Myrrix is now a part of Cloudera This may be relevant enough to announce here: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/07/myrrix-joins-cloudera-to-bring-big-learning-to-hadoop/ (Brief recap: Myrrix is a product / project / tiny company related to large scale-recommenders, and shares some APIs and background with Mahout.) I think this indicates just how much interest there is, now more than ever, in learning at scale. FWIW I will be Director of Data Science at Cloudera and hope to be able to do more there to advance open-source big learning in general and along the way Mahout support in particular in CDH. Sean