Don’t give space billionaires control over internet services and recommendations [Financial Times]
J Scott Christianson argues in a letter published by Financial Times (PayWall), that Elon Musk should not be given so much power about internet services,...
“Recommendation” is the most popular term at the SIGIR 2020 conference — what does that mean for the RecSys community?
SIGIR 2020 is the premier venue for research in the field of Information Retrieval. I am typically on the program committee at SIGIR. Recently, i.e....
Why is there no ‘International Journal on Recommender Systems’?
The data mining community has it, the information retrieval community has it, and the machine learning & AI community has it: (top) journals. It seems...
‘Papers with Code’ / NeurIPS Guidelines for Publishing Research Code: A Role Model For Recommender-Systems?
The recommender-system community is facing a reproducibility crisis. This has recently been demonstrated by the authors of the paper Are we really making much progress?...
Why are there no continental chapters of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems? E.g. the Asian or European Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSysAsia / RecSysEU)?
The number of submissions and participants at the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems is increasing, year by year. Sometimes, the conference is even sold out...