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There is an interesting GSOC project proposal to implement Neural Network with backpropagation learning on Hadoop at apache mailing list. The idea is to create support for massivley parallel neural network system.

Apache Hadoop is a Java software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

Citation from the project proposal:

This architecture is inspired from that of the opensource Neuroph neural network framework (http://imgur.com/gDIOe.jpg). This design of the base architecture allows for great flexibility in deriving newer NNs and learning rules. All that needs to be done is to derive from the NeuralNetwork class, provide the method for network creation, create a new training method by deriving from LearningRule, and then add that learning rule to the network during creation. In addition, the API is very intuitive and easy to understand (in comparision to other NN frameworks like Encog and JOONE).

The Neuroph will support this project for sure.

Several members of our group went for the Certified NetBeans Platform Training at Faculty of Organizational Sciences. While we explored the NetBeans Platform at the training, we have discovered amazing oportunity to create the integration platform for various software that we've developed. Also it has been very interesting to explore it from the software engineering perspective, since it employs state of the art architecture and software design techniques.
After the training we initiated the project of porting the existing GUI application for editing neural networks to Net Beans Platform in order to create the full featured Neural Network IDE. Check out the interviews and other videos fro the training.

In the third part of the interview titled Neuroph: Smart Java Apps with Neural Networks published on developers social network NetBeans Zone,  project founder Zoran Sevarac announced plans for migration of the Neuroph GUI to NetBeans Platform in cooperation with the NetBeans community. The NetBeans will provide certified training for the six Neuroph developers.

OPO Project has been moved to DERI's server and got a new web address. Project can now be found at http://online-presence.net. From now on, the OPO ontology is going to be maintained by the GOOD OLD AI and DERI members together in order to create a highly functional and widely used vocabulary for representing users presence online.

Members of our group have founded the NetBeans User Group for Serbia - NUGS. The group's main objective is to explore and share experience with NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Platform. We see the NetBeans Platform as a very productive environment for creating feature rich, modern Java desktop applications. Therefore, we want to use it for our own projects. The NUGS site is at http://nugs.wikispaces.com.

It is a great pleasure to annonce that since December 10, 2009, we have another PhD in our network - Marko Boskovic has successfully and brilliantly defended his PhD thesis, Model-Driven Performance Measurement and Assessment with Relational Traces, at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Congratulations, Marko!