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Bob van Luijt

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Bob van Luijt
Bob van Luijt during Datastax's podcast Open Source Data with Sam Ramji
Born (1985-11-15) November 15, 1985 (age 38)
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

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[edit]

Bob van Luijt presenting at TEDx

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[edit]

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.[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[edit]

  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)