Thanks everyone! This is a fantastic opportunity, and I'll try to make the best of this for myself, as well as Mahout. Hopefully, we'll have a great compilation of deep learning networks within the next few releases.
BTW, congrats to everyone on Mahout becoming a TLP! On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > Looks like student GSOC announcements are up ( > http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/list_projects/google/gsoc2010). > Mahout got quite a few projects (5) accepted this year, which is a true > credit to the ASF, Mahout, the mentors, and most of all the students! We > had a good number of very high quality student proposals for Mahout this > year and it was very difficult to choose. Of the ones selected, I think > they all bode well for the future of Mahout and the students. > > For those who didn't make the cut, I know it's small consolation, but I > would encourage you all to stay involved in open source, if not Mahout > specifically. We'd certainly love to see you contributing here as many of > you had very good ideas. > > At any rate, for everyone, keep an eye out on the Mahout project, as you > should be seeing lots of exciting features coming to Mahout soon in the form > of scalable Neural Networks, Restricted Boltzmann Machines (recommenders), > SVD-based recommenders, EigenCuts Spectral Clustering and Support Vector > Machines (SVM)! > > Should be an exciting summer! > > -Grant -- SK
