A group for those in Chicago who develop or implement enterprise search software. We'll discuss new search solutions, specific products (Autonomy, Endeca, Fast, Dieselpoint, Lucene, Solr, Google Search Appliance), ideas, and maybe a bit of "big data" technology like Hadoop as it relates to search. Folks into text analytics also welcome. Great for developers or academics who work in information retrieval.
… A few texts/individuals that have strongly influenced me include Robert Anton Wilson (“Prometheus Rising” in particular), Aleister Crowley, Gautama Buddha, Dr. John C. Lilly (“The Human BioComputer” in particular), Alfred Korzybski, Douglas Hofstadter, I-Ching, Rig Vedas, (artist Alex Grey), etc…and most of all, the band TOOL. TOOL has seamlessly addressed in its music essentially every topic/experience I’d like to discuss & have personally experienced…and I have yet to find an individual whose …
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