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...
Zalando publishes its RESTful API and Event Guidelines
It’s a bit off-topic, but since APIs have some relevance for recommender systems, this is worthwhile news*: Zalando – one of the world’s largest fashion...
Call for Papers (CfP) of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys 2022)
The ACM RecSys organizers just released the call for papers for the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022), which will take place from...
RecList: A RecSys software library for behavioral testing
Patrick John Chia, Jacopo Tagliabue, Federico Bianchi, Chloe He, and Brian Ko have released a new software library for recommender-systems testing. Source code is on...
Recsperts Podcast #3: Bandits and Simulators for Recommenders with Olivier Jeunen
Marcel Kurovski released his third podcast on Spotify, titled ‘Bandits and Simulators for Recommenders with Olivier Jeunen‘....
The ACM TORS editorial board had its first meeting
In October, it was revealed at the ACM RecSys conference, that there would be a journal on recommender systems: The ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems,...
Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change that. [Press Release Colorado U]
The University of Colorado Boulder released a press release about the well-known recommender-systems researcher Robin Burke, titled “Algorithms aren’t fair. Robin Burke wants to change...
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,...
A look inside TikTok’s all-knowing algorithm [Charlotte Hu]
The New York Times recently reported about leaked documents on how Tik Tok’s recommender system works (PayWall). The report followed an investigation of the Wall...
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...