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...
Real-World Recommender Systems for Academia: The Pain and Gain in Building, Operating, and Researching them [Beel & Dinesh]
The article “Real-World Recommender Systems for Academia: The Pain and Gain in Building, Operating, and Researching Them” provides an in-depth look into the practical and...
The “ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems” (ACM TORS) is revealed during the ACM RecSys Conference 2021
A new milestone in the history of recommender systems is being announced: At this very minute, Dietmar Jannach reveals at the ACM RecSys Conference 2021...
Industry Sponsors of the ACM RecSys Conference over the Years / Quiz (Predict sponsors for 2022: Win Beer or Wine)
The ACM RecSys Conference 2021 has just started, and a large number of companies support the conference including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Ebay, Spotify,...
On YouTube’s recommendation system [Cristos Goodrow]
Cristos Goodrow, VP of Engineering at YouTube, published a blog post about YouTube’s recommender system that provides “a deeper look into how YouTube’s recommendation system...
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2022 has a RecSys Track
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries has announced its call for papers 2022. The so-far A*-ranked conference has a dedicated ‘Search & Recommendation’ track...
ACM SAC 2022 with “Track on Recommender Systems: Theory, User Interactions & Applications”
The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC) has a dedicated track on recommender systems, like in many of the previous years. ACM SAC...
China seeks feedback on a draft for regulating online recommendations
According to Stanford’s DigiChina Cyber Policy Center, China seeks feedback on a draft for a policy that would regulate companies that use recommender systems. More...
Should Recommender Systems Be Exempt From the Post-Tracking Age? [Martin Anderson@Unite.ai
As first-party data gathering becomes the new lodestar for marketers and data brokers, the increased attention on ‘closed’ data-gathering systems risks to drag one of machine...
‘AutoML’ is growing up with a summer school and dedicated conference
At this minute, the AutoML Workshop 2021 at the ICML conference is running. And one of the organizers, Frank Hutter, announced an AutoML Summer School...