Thanks Chris! Here's a quick intro:
I now work at IBM, who has (generously: thank you!) sponsored my contributions to Lucene/Solr for a long time now (like 5 years, wow!). Before that I was co-founder of a startup called iPhrase Technologies, selling enterprise search software; we didn't use Lucene but wanted to. And we would have used Tika in a heartbeat if it had been around back then! Before that, long ago, in a galaxy far away, I got a PhD at MIT (Computer science). I've been impressed by Tika for quite some time, watching it from a distance, using it here and there. I love how simple its API is, and that basic usage can simply invoke the command-line tool. And it's solving an incredibly important problem -- unlocking the text inside the zillions of document formats we all use now. Writing the Tika chapter in Lucene in Action 2nd Edition (replacing the previous custom framework that was used for the first edition) was great fun. I'm happy to be on board and I'm looking forward to improving Tika. It's all still very new to me so I will tread lightly... Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > The Tika PMC just elected Mike McCandless as a Tika PMC member and committer. > Mike's > made a number of valuable contributions to Tika over the years and is a > longtime contributor to the > Apache Lucene project. > > Mike, feel free to say a bit about yourself and welcome aboard! > > Cheers, > Chris > (on behalf of the Tika PMC) > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >
