“Recommendation” is the most popular term at the SIGIR 2020 conference — time for a joint ACM SIGIR & RecSys Conference?
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....
CORE Conference Ranking 2020 Removes JCDL and other Digital Library Conferences from its Database
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is the premier conference in the field of digital libraries and, besides the ACM RecSys, a good...
Scalable Recommender Systems with NVTabular- A Fast Tabular Data Loading and Transformation Library [Ronay Ak @ Medium]
Ronay Ak et al. from RapidsAI wrote a nice in-depth post on how to use NVIDIA´s NVTabular to develop a recommender system that works with...
RecSys Wiki is back online
After a bit more than 2 years of downtime, RecSys Wiki is back online. RecSys Wiki was established in 2011 by Alan Said (and others?)...
Typewise taps 1m to build an offline next-word prediction-engine [Natasha Lomas @TechCrunch]
While really handy, recommendation systems for (next) word prediction are quite a niche, and I am not sure if there has ever been a research...
Recommender-Systems.com (RS_c) will be the ACM Recommender Systems Conference 2020
I am delighted to announce that my demo paper introducing RS_c has been accepted for publication at the 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. I...
SIGIR 2020 Summer School Programme Online
SIGIR provides a great summer school this year with interesting talks about personalized search, offline evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems and many more. https://sigir.org/sigir2020/summer-school/...
Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built...
Free ‘Resource-aware Machine Learning’ summer school in Dortmund, Germany (virtually)
The International Summer School on resource-aware Machine Learning brings together lectures from the research area of data analysis (Machine Learning, data mining, statistics) and embedded...
Recommender-System on a Chip? Google lets you design your own (RecSys?) chip architecture — for free. [Philipp Wagner @ FOSSi]
Google and efabless announce that they would let anybody to design their own chip architectures and manufacture those chips free of charge. Maybe it is...