Joseph (‘Joe’) A. Konstan runs for the ACM presidency
Joseph Konstan announced recently that he will be running for the presidency of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Joseph Konstan is one of the ‘fathers’ of recommender systems, and ACM is the major publisher in the recommender-systems community and many related disciplines.
Update 2022-04-18
There are only two candidates for the presidency, and everyone is invited to ask them questions: https://lin-web.clarkson.edu/~jmatthew/acmelection2022/. Voting should start today, too, and ends May 23, 16:00 UTC.
Vote here: https://www.acm.org/elections/acm-vote
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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).