Bob van Luijt (born November 15, 1985) is a technology

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, technologist, and

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from the

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. He is the co-founder of Weaviate and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation.

Technology Entrepreneurship

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.,

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and

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New Media & Arts

Van Luijt received a bachelor's degree from

Artez Institute of the Arts ArtEZ University of Arts ( nl, ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten) is an art academy in Netherlands. ArtEZ combines several art institutes and art disciplines with branches in Arnhem, Enschede, and Zwolle. In its name the A stands for Arnhem, the E ...

. After completing his studies he worked on projects including his album The Core. He collaborated on

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Anne Vanschothorst's album ''Ek is eik''., with

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and Florian Weber and with Yonga Sun and

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. 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.

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