Thank You for Your Service! Two Decades and 289 Chairs at ACM RecSys
The first post in this series looked at who runs the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys), and how the conference changed as an...
Who Runs ACM RecSys? From 11 to 50+ Chairs in Twenty Years
Most conference statistics count papers, citations, acceptance rates, or attendees. I counted something else: the number of people who make the ACM Conference on Recommender...
Recsperts Didn’t Stop at Episode #20 — I Just Forgot Writing About It
Back in November 2023, I wrote that Recsperts was becoming a constant in the recommender-systems community. The occasion was episode #20, in which Marcel Kurovski...
Robin Burke on Social Choice for Fair Recommendations — and a Recommender-Systems Podcast I Had Missed
A recent episode of Data Skeptic caught my attention: Social Choice for Fair Recommendations, featuring Robin Burke. The 43-minute conversation starts with the history of...
ACM RecSys Conference 2027 officially announced: August 23–27, Hawaii.
ACM RecSys 2027 will take place in Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, from August 23–27, 2027, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort (Google Maps). The...
ACM RecSys 2026 Introduces a Rather Different Call: Tell the History of Recommender Systems in 60 Seconds
ACM RecSys 2026 has quietly added a rather unusual call for contributions. And quietly is the important word here: the call appeared only a few...
ACM TOIS, the Big Sister of ACM TORS: Min Zhang’s Term as Editor-in-Chief Ends as the Impact Factor Rises to 11.2
When it comes to journals, Recommender-Systems.com usually focuses on ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, or TORS. The reason is obvious: TORS is the ACM journal...
ACM TORS Volume 4, Issue 3: From SIGIR’24 Highlights to Reproducible Recommendation Research
The September 2026 issue of ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (vol. 4, no. 3) follows two movements in recommender-systems research at once: models are incorporating...
From reproducible evidence to safer and more useful recommendations: nine new ACM TORS articles
We are pleased to announce nine newly accepted articles in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems. The collection reflects a field that is broadening its understanding...
ACM’s New AI Policy Is Almost Right: AI-Written Papers Are Not the Problem. Unaccountable Papers Are!
ACM has changed its authorship policy on AI, and the core message is simple: AI-assisted writing no longer needs to be disclosed. Authors may use...