Dagstuhl Seminar 24211: Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems — Driving Research and Education
Recommender-Systems Evaluation is and maybe always has been a challenge. The Dagstuhl Seminar 24211 attempted to improve the current state of recommender-systems evaluation, and as...
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...
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...
15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021): Call for Papers
ACM RecSys has published the Call for Papers for the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021), which will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands,...
‘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?...
Bachelor & Master programs
Sadly, we are not aware of any Bachelor or Master programs that specialize in recommender systems (Do you know any? Let us know!). If you...
Impact@RecSys2020: The 2nd Workshop on the Impact of Recommender Systems
The research literature that considers such more direct measurements of impact of recommender systems on the various stakeholders is comparably scarce and scattered. With the...