Bob van Luijt explained
Bob van Luijt (born November 15, 1985) is a technology entrepreneur, technologist,[1] and new media artist[2] from the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of Weaviate and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation.
Technology Entrepreneurship
In March 2016[3] Van Luijt started the open source vector search engine Weaviate.[4] [5] [6] [7] He has published[8] and lectured[9] about (open-source) software business models [10] and the positioning of broadly applicable infrastructure software (e.g., databases and search engines).[11]
New Media & Arts
Van Luijt received a bachelor's degree from Artez Institute of the Arts. After completing his studies he worked on projects including his album The Core.[12] He collaborated on harpist Anne Vanschothorst's album Ek is eik.,[13] with Billy Martin and Florian Weber[14] and with Yonga Sun and Cuong Vu.[15]
Control(human, data, sound) (CHDS)[16] was his first tech-based artwork and was selected as an awards Finalist for CREATE 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in the category art+technology.[17]
Notes and References
- Music in your head. TrendNomad. 21 August 2015. 5 July 2016.
- Bob van Luijt about Strategic Design at Berlin Design Week. Berlin Design Week. 13 June 2015. 5 July 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160809103407/https://dmyberlin.com/en/festival_2015/central_exhibition/kubrickology-bob-van-luijt. 9 August 2016. dead.
- https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate/graphs/contributors Weaviate contributors on Github
- https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate Weaviate on Github
- [doi:10.1109/MS.2019.2957526]
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/22/semi-technologies-search-engine-data/ Interview with Bob about Weaviate in Techcrunch
- https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/11/2246180/ Interview with Bob about search in Techcrunch
- [doi:10.1177/2394964319868366]
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnqq5qbhpyg Bob van Luijt at Amsterdam Business School
- https://www.datastax.com/resources/podcast/vector-search-ai-stack-more-bob-van-luijt Interview with Bob about vector search on Datastax podcast
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/06/23/the-ai-first-database-ecosystem/?sh=1cef69f3643f The AI-First Database Ecosystem
- Bob Van Luijt's Square Orange: The Core. All About Jazz. 3 March 2014. 5 July 2016.
- Muziek voor een open geest. 8 Weekly. 8 May 2014. nl. 5 July 2016.
- Florian Weber, Bob van Luijt & Billy Martin. 3 March 2014. 5 July 2016.
- Review: Cuong Vu, Bob van Luijt and Yonga Sun. 3 February 2012. 5 July 2016.
- control(human, data, sound). 2015. en. 2017-10-15. https://archive.today/20160709093923/http://chds.io/. 2016-07-09. dead.
- Weblog about CHDS. 2015. en. 2017-10-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20171016013646/http://renateroze.com/films/my-latest-co-produced-project-controlhuman-data-sound/. 2017-10-16. dead.
