Misplaced Pages

Bob van Luijt

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Dutch entrepreneur In this Dutch name, the surname is van Luijt, not Luijt.
Bob van Luijt
Bob van Luijt during Datastax's podcast Open Source Data with Sam Ramji
Born (1985-11-15) November 15, 1985 (age 39)
Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.
NationalityDutch
EducationArtez Institute of the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Harvard Business School
Alma materArtez Institute of the Arts
Occupations
  • Entrepreneur
  • technologist
Organizations
  • Weaviate
  • Creative Software Foundation
Known for
  • Weaviate
  • Control(human, data, sound)
  • The Core
Title
  • Founder, CEO, Weaviate
  • Chairman of Creative Software Foundation
Websitetxt.vanluijt.nl

Bob van Luijt (born November 15, 1985) is a technology entrepreneur, technologist, and new media artist from the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of Weaviate and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation.

Technology Entrepreneurship

Bob van Luijt presenting at TEDx

In March 2016 Van Luijt started the open source vector search engine Weaviate. He has published and lectured about (open-source) software business models and the positioning of broadly applicable infrastructure software (e.g., databases and search engines).

New Media & Arts

Kubrickology at the Dutch Design Week in the Van Abbemuseum

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. He collaborated on harpist Anne Vanschothorst's album Ek is eik., with Billy Martin and Florian Weber and with Yonga Sun and Cuong Vu.

Control(human, data, sound) (CHDS) 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.

References

  1. "Music in your head". TrendNomad. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  2. "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.
  3. Weaviate contributors on Github
  4. Weaviate on Github
  5. doi:10.1109/MS.2019.2957526
  6. Interview with Bob about Weaviate in Techcrunch
  7. Interview with Bob about search in Techcrunch
  8. doi:10.1177/2394964319868366
  9. Bob van Luijt at Amsterdam Business School
  10. Interview with Bob about vector search on Datastax podcast
  11. The AI-First Database Ecosystem
  12. "Bob Van Luijt's Square Orange: The Core". All About Jazz. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  13. "Muziek voor een open geest". 8 Weekly (in Dutch). 8 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  14. "Florian Weber, Bob van Luijt & Billy Martin". 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. "Review: Cuong Vu, Bob van Luijt and Yonga Sun". 3 February 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. "control(human, data, sound)". 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2017-10-15. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. "Weblog about CHDS". 2015. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-15. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Categories:
Bob van Luijt Add topic