ACM RecSys 2026 has published its Call for Contributions, so the yearly ritual can begin: staring at AoE deadlines, renaming drafts (“last one”, “very last...

RecSys 2026’s general chairs put out a LinkedIn and WhatsApp note, and it’s one of those posts you read with that little knot in your...

The call for student volunteers at RecSys 2026 is out, and if you are even remotely considering an academic or research career, you should read...

ACM UMAP just got an upgrade that many academics quietly care about. The UMAP 2026 website states that the conference is ranked A (“Excellent”) in...

For years, RS_c treated X (and Twitter before it) as the natural place to “ship” recommender-systems news. You published a post, you dropped a link,...

Ever wondered how ChatGPT would write a summary of newly published articles at ACM TORS? Here is an example (what do you think? Let us...

Sharing an update from ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS): the Author Guidelines were revised to include two additional paper types that we’d like to...

News is more important than ever—and yet, if we’re honest, the state of the art in news recommendation is still… kind of disappointing. That’s exactly...

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, is not usually the one you expect to put recommender systems at the centre stage. Yet at the U.S.–Saudi Arabia...

I received a very interesting new book “Recommender Algorithms: 2026 Practitioner’s Guide” by Rauf Aliev. I have skimmed only the first hundred pages, so this...