Wednesday Blender & TechTalk at Santa Fe Complex

[Don Begley]

Tomorrow, Wednesday July 16, is an industrial strength data day at  
Santa Fe Complex. We begin the discussions with a 1:00 discussion led  
by Emil Eifrem titled Neo: A High-Performance Graph Database. That  
will be followed by the regular blender session at 6:00, when Emil  
will be joined by Marko Rodriguez,

Emil's TechTalk will dive deep into the Neo4j graph database from a  
software developer's perspective by walking through the graph  
representation API using simple examples, introducing Neo4j's high-
speed traverser framework, and demonstrating how to use the RDF layers  
that Neo Technology has developed in collaboration with Santa Fe's  
Knowledge Reef Systems. He will also step back one level and look at  
some of the pros/cons of working with graph databases in enterprise  
software development, as well as look at the runtime characteristics  
of some typical use cases.

Emil is joining this discussion from his home in Sweden. After some  
unsuccessful attempts at demo programming in the 80s, Emil Eifrem  
found a hacker's home in the world of text role-playing games in the  
early days of the internet. 100 000 lines of spaghetti C, almost as  
many segfaults and several sleepless years later, he escaped into the  
warm embrace of Java 1.0a2 and has stayed there ever since. (He has no  
regrets but is secretly proud that the text game he founded is still  
played almost 15 years later.) After a decade as a developer, mentor  
and architect at a consulting- and product company in southern Sweden,  
Emil's current focus is on evangelizing graph databases and preaching  
the demise of tabular solutions everywhere.

His talk begins at 1:00 at the main hall of Santa Fe Complex, located  
at 632 Agua Fria St. parking is in the rear of the building; access is  
via Romero St. just east of the complex's facilities.

Emil will be joined by Johan Bollen, Joshua Shinavier  and Marko A.  
Rodriguez. Johan will present the use of the network in the modeling  
of the relationship between scholarly entities in the scholarly  
community. Joshua will introduce the concepts of the Semantic Web  
paradigm and its industrial application. Emil will discuss the role of  
his company in providing a high-performant graph database to store and  
query massive-scale networks. Finally, Marko A. Rodriguez will host  
the blender and provide the glue that unites the various speakers and  
their work.

The blender begins at 6:00, also in the main hall of Santa Fe Complex,  
located at 632 Agua Fria St. parking is in the rear of the building;  
access is via Romero St. just east of the complex's facilities.

For more information, visit http://www.sfcomplex.org or call Don  
Begley at 216.7562.

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Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM 87501

www.santafecomplex.org
505-216-7562
505.670.9432 (cell)







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