The “ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems” (ACM ToRS) is revealed during the ACM RecSys Conference 2021
A new milestone in the history of recommender systems is being announced: At this very minute, Dietmar Jannach reveals at the ACM RecSys Conference 2021...
Industry Sponsors of the ACM RecSys Conference over the Years / Quiz (Predict sponsors for 2022: Win Beer or Wine)
The ACM RecSys Conference 2021 has just started, and a large number of companies support the conference including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Ebay, Spotify,...
On YouTube’s recommendation system [Cristos Goodrow]
Cristos Goodrow, VP of Engineering at YouTube, wrote a blog post that provides “a deeper look into how YouTube’s recommendation system works”. The blog post...
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2022 has a RecSys Track
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has announced its call for papers 2022. The so-far A*-ranked conference has a dedicated ‘Search & Recommendation’ track...
ACM SAC 2022 with “Track on Recommender Systems: Theory, User Interactions & Applications”
The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC) has a dedicated track on recommender systems, like in many of the previous years. ACM SAC...
China seeks feedback on a draft for regulating online recommendations
According to Stanford’s DigiChina Cyber Policy Center, China seeks feedback on a draft for a policy that would regulate companies that use recommender systems. More...
Should Recommender Systems Be Exempt From the Post-Tracking Age? [Martin Anderson@Unite.ai
As first-party data gathering becomes the new lodestar for marketers and data brokers, the increased attention on ‘closed’ data-gathering systems risks to drag one of machine...
‘AutoML’ is growing up with a summer school and dedicated conference
At this minute, the AutoML Workshop 2021 at the ICML conference is running. And one of the organizers, Frank Hutter, announced an AutoML Summer School...
Apple’s opt-in for cross-app advertisement leads to a 15% – 20% drop in revenue, says Brian Bowman
A few months ago, Apple changed its practice regarding user-tracking across apps. Since then, Apple requires app developers to explicitly ask users whether they agree...
How to win the SIGIR eCommerce Challenge with Transformers (Gabriel Moreira / NVIDIA)
The NVIDIA team performed well on the Session-based recommendation task of the SIGIR eCommerce Coveo Data Challenge 2021. NVIDIA achieved 1st place on the ‘Subsequent...