Bob van Luijt
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.
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![]() Bob van Luijt during Datastax's podcast Open Source Data with Sam Ramji | |
Born | Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands. | November 15, 1985
Nationality | Dutch |
Education | Artez Institute of the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Harvard Business School |
Alma mater | Artez Institute of the Arts |
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Technology Entrepreneurship
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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
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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]
References
- "Music in your head". TrendNomad. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- "Bob van Luijt about Strategic Design at Berlin Design Week". Berlin Design Week. 13 June 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- Weaviate contributors on Github
- Weaviate on Github
- doi:10.1109/MS.2019.2957526
- 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
- Bob van Luijt at Amsterdam Business School
- Interview with Bob about vector search on Datastax podcast
- The AI-First Database Ecosystem
- "Bob Van Luijt's Square Orange: The Core". All About Jazz. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- "Muziek voor een open geest". 8 Weekly (in Dutch). 8 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- "Florian Weber, Bob van Luijt & Billy Martin". 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
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(help) - "Review: Cuong Vu, Bob van Luijt and Yonga Sun". 3 February 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
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(help) - "control(human, data, sound)". 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
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(help) - "Weblog about CHDS". 2015. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
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