ACM’s New AI Policy Is Almost Right: AI-Written Papers Are Not the Problem. Unaccountable Papers Are!
ACM has changed its authorship policy on AI, and the core message is simple: AI-assisted writing no longer needs to be disclosed. Authors may use...
Dr. Dr. Recommender Systems: Mounia Lalmas becomes an honorary doctor in Gothenburg
The University of Gothenburg has appointed Mounia Lalmas (-Roelleke) as an honorary doctor at its Faculty of Science and Technology. That is a nice sentence...
Update of the RecSys Expert Map
We updated our recommender-systems expert map to a new system. It’s not yet perfect, e.g. for some entries the roles are missing, and members of...
A New RecSys Blog: MagicMag on Recommender Systems and the Missing ChatGPT Moment
We stumbled on an interesting new blog. It is called MagicMag, and the simple reason to note it is this: our community needs much more...
Call for Papers: Challenges in Modern Multimodal Recommender Systems (ACM TORS)
Update 2026-06-09: Deadline Extended to September 30, 2026 Multimodal recommendation is one of those ideas that sounds obvious until one looks more closely. Of course...
Music Recommender Systems: Call for Papers by ACM TORS for a Special Issue
Music recommendation is an unusually difficult problem. It is not only about matching listeners to songs. It is also a matter of balancing the interests...
RS_c moves from X/Twitter to LinkedIn as the primary social channel
For years, RS_c treated X (and Twitter before it) as the natural place to “ship” recommender-systems news. You published a post, you dropped a link,...
ACM UMAP 2025: (Preliminary) Call for Papers
UMAP (B ranked) released a preliminary Call for Papers for the UMAP 2025 conference in New York from June 16 – 20, 2025. We also...
Green Recommender-Systems at ACM RecSys 2024
There are only a few days left until the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems begins, and one topic is quite prominently represented this year:...
Green Recommender Systems: A Call for Attention
Recommender systems are a cornerstone of many industries, from e-commerce to streaming services. Their role in shaping user choices is significant, driving customer engagement and...