The ACM RecSys Conference becomes an ‘A’ Conference
For many years, the ACM RecSys conference — the premier conference for recommender systems — was considered a ‘B’ conference. Now, finally, the popular CORE...
Experience of using CORE Recommender – an interview
The CORE recommender is recommender-system-as-a-service and API for research-paper recommendations (similar to my own service Mr. DLib). CORE has an impressive open source repository of...
Google Android Users May Emphasize Importance of News Recommendations
Google Android phones display news recommendations on the very left screen (at least my Pixel 5 phone). Until now, users only were able to remove...
‘Microsoft Academic’ Discontinued
Microsoft announced to discontinue its Microsoft Academic Services (MAS), including its Academic Search Engine (like Google Scholar) and Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG). This is a...
Google AI releases ‘RecSim NG’, a “Flexible, Scalable, Differentiable Simulation of Recommender Systems”
One or two years ago, Google AI released RecSim — A Configurable Simulation Platform for Recommender Systems. Now, Martin Mladenov from Google AI announced the...
Finally, the recommender systems community has its own journal: “Frontiers in Big Data | Recommender Systems”
Almost a year ago, we asked the question of why there was no journal on recommender systems. Now, there is a journal and we congratulate...
Free MOOC on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is one of the techniques that will greatly advance recommender systems in the near future (see also AutoRecSys). Recently, there was...
WhizzCo predicts for each page view, which recommendation provider is best
Today, I stumbled upon WhizzCo, a start-up with a great idea. WhizzCo tackles the problem that there is no single-best content recommendation-engine or advertisement platform...
‘Spotify Confidence’: convenience wrappers around stat models various functions
Spotify released Spotify Confidence, which provides “convenience wrappers around stats model’s various functions for computing p-values and confidence intervals. With Spotify Confidence, it’s easy to...
Alyce, a personalized corporate gifting service raises $30M
Alyce offers personalized corporate gifts for employees and business partners. It offers several plug-ins to e.g. Chrome or Salesforce, and then makes recommendations for gifts...