‘River’, a privacy-preserving news recommender system app, raises $10 million [Kyle Wiggers @ VentureBeat]
River today launched its eponymous social media app, which is designed to organize conversations into streams of shareable stories. The startup also announced a $10.4 million...
NVIDIA Team wins the ACM RecSys Challenge 2020
It seems that NVIDIA becomes a new big player in the recommender-system community. After introducing Merlin – a Framework for Deep Recommender Systems – and...
Fraunhofer plans to create a center for AI (including RecSys) for the energy sector
According to PV Magazine, the German Fraunhofer Association is planning to create a new centre for artificial intelligence for energy systems. The goal of the...
Diego Gómez-Zará receives the Microsoft Research dissertation award for a RecSys to create more diverse teams
For the fourth time, Microsoft offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the research of PhD students nearing the completion of their degrees. One...