Joseph Konstan (Univ. of Minnesota) leads $2m NSF project to help researchers better study AI-powered news recommender systems
The University of Minnesota reports that a team around Joseph Konstan is leading a new $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) project to create a...
Die Maschine Empfiehlt / Recommended by algorithms (Press Release Siegen U)
The University of Siegen published a news article (see screenshot) and press release about my work on self-learning automated recommender systems as-a-service. Professor Dr. Jöran...
Craydel raises $1 million to grow its higher education platform and recommender system
Kenyan edtech startup Craydel, a platform for comparing colleges, course options and tuition fees, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round that will go...
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...
‘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...