Shaving The Yak

My name is John Muellerleile.  I’m an engineer at Basho Technologies leading the research and development of search and indexing technologies to complement our key-value datastore, Riak.  

For roughly 82% of my life to present I’ve also a been a musician and producer.  In college, what now feels like a long time ago, I studied computer science, psychology, film and music.  If you’re in the mood for a fusion of free jazz and electronic music, check out melfmusic.com, and download my albums for free.

Information retrieval, social networks, machine learning and distributed systems are my passions, though I always enjoy a good hack.

I have some images and a presentation relating to work and hackery I’ve done over the years:

* My Riak Search presentation at Erlang Factory 2010 San Francisco

* Some graphs from a number of information extraction, business intelligence, and other information-based applications.

* Graphs relating information about “discovered” people extracted from free text

* An archive of “entity” and “event”-based graphs mainly dealing with information extracted from various sources

* Discovery & automated research tools

* Some primitive topic maps

* [Yet another] hobby of mine, Procedural 3D world generation

* A couple of entertaining social network experiments

* I made a comic strip that seems to have found its way around the web, and beyond: “I believe I did, Bob”*

* A breakdown of relative traffic levels by geography over time that the “Fault Tolerance” comic generated: mp4 or wmv

Some of this stuff is pretty ancient, but perhaps still interesting; it is to me! You can email me at jmuellerleile /at/ g m a i l d0t c0m, or find me on twitter @jrecursive.

Cheers,
John