You may find some answers here? https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/mahoutname.html
Dawid On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Daniel Donahoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues: > > > > As Vice Chair of the Utah section of the American Society of Mechanical > Engineers (ASME), I invited Professor Adele Cutler (Utah State University, > USU) to speak on Big Data. The ASME/UT executive committee agreed, and the > meeting was hosted by the Mechanical Engineering Department at the > University of Utah on February 8th. Professor Cutler worked with Professor > Leo Breimen (her PhD advisor at UC Berkeley, now deceased) to create the > method now in Mahout named Random Forests. You can find more background on > RF on Adele's website at USU. The link to the video of her talk will be > posted soon on the ASME/UT website. I recommend you check this out, because > > > > I find that inventors/authors/creators usually have a different view than > you may expect, a profoundly insightful vantage point illuminated by an > unencumbered vision. [Note: Most engineers make a mistake ignoring history. > There is a good reason ABET requires undergraduate liberal art electives, > because initial conditions define the trajectory of events.] > > > > We had some debate on how to pronounce "Mahout". Is the Hindi pronunciation > generally used, and if not, why? > > > > Regards, > > > > Dan Donahoe > > N Salt Lake > > > > > > > > > > >
