Lucid Imagination Hosts San Francisco Bay Area Lucene/Solr Meetup

Event to Include Discussions by Digg and Netflix Search Experts, as Well as Several Lucene/Solr Committers


SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 2, 2009) - Lucid Imagination, the commercial company dedicated to the popular and widely installed open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technologies, today announced that it will be sponsoring the next San Francisco Bay Area Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup event on September 3, 2009. The event will include discussions by a number of Lucid Imagination Lucene/Solr committers, as well as presentations by search experts from Digg and Netflix.

Date:     Thursday, September 3, 2009
Time:     6:30 - 10:30 PM
Location: Computer History Museum
          1401 N Shoreline BLVD
          Mountain View, CA
Link:     http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/calendar/11157028/

Topics at the September 3rd event will include:

--  "Lucene Search Performance Analysis" - presented by Andrzej Bialecki,
    Lucene PMC Member and Nutch Committer
--  "Can You Find What They Found? Solr @ Digg.com" - presented by Sammy
    Yu, Digg.com Search Development
--  "Looking at Solr Relevancy" - presented by Mark Bennett, New Idea
    Engineering
--  "Search at Netflix and Beyond" - presented by Walter Underwood, Search
    Veteran, Infoseek, Verity, Netflix
--  "Innovations in Search and Social Media" - presented by Brian
    Pinkerton, Chief Architect, Lucid Imagination
    

About Lucid Imagination

Lucid Imagination is a commercial company dedicated to Apache Lucene technology. The company provides free certified distributions, commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added software for Lucene and Solr. Lucid Imagination's goal is to serve as a central resource for the entire Lucene community and make them more productive. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company. The investors include Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel.

Contact Information: Contact: Brittany Bevacqua Lois Paul & Partners E: brittany_bevacqua@lpp.com P: (781) 782-5857