Ocilion and Xroad Media launch a recsys for TV shows
ocilion – provider of IPTV solutions – and Xroad Media – provider of ‘content discovery solutions’ – partner up. They integrate Xroad Media’s recommender system Ncanto into the TV streaming products of ocilion. The first pilot partner is the Grman Salzburg AG, which offers its customers a ‘Plus‘ service with recommendations for TV shows and movies.
Mozilla is Crowdsourcing Research into (Harmful) YouTube Recommendations [Ashley Boyd @ Mozilla]
Google Scholar re-designs its research-paper recommender system
Watchworthy’s personalized TV recommendation app will help you find your next binge [TechCrunch]
About The Author
Joeran Beel
I am the founder of Recommender-Systems.com and head of the Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) at the University of Siegen, Germany https://isg.beel.org. We conduct research in recommender-systems (RecSys), personalization and information retrieval (IR) as well as on automated machine learning (AutoML), meta-learning and algorithm selection. Domains we are particularly interested in include smart places, eHealth, manufacturing (industry 4.0), mobility, visual computing, and digital libraries. We founded or maintain, among others, LensKit-Auto, Darwin & Goliath, Mr. DLib, and Docear, each with thousand of users; we contributed to TensorFlow, JabRef and others; and we developed the first prototypes of automated recommender systems (AutoSurprise and Auto-CaseRec) and Federated Meta Learning (FMLearn Server and Client).