Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! Mike McCandless
http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Oleg Tikhonov <o...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Make! Congrats! > > I worked with OmniFind edition at IBM Jerusalem :-) ..., I heard about you > from my colleagues (Josemina, Yariv) and now met you here! Welcome! > > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Michael McCandless < > luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > >> > >> >
