ACM RecSys 2026: Call for Student Volunteers
The call for student volunteers at RecSys 2026 is out, and if you are even remotely considering an academic or research career, you should read...
ACM UMAP conference now A-ranked: What does it mean for the RecSys community?
ACM UMAP just got an upgrade that many academics quietly care about. The UMAP 2026 website states that the conference is ranked A (“Excellent”) in...
RS_c moves from X/Twitter to LinkedIn as the primary social channel
For years, RS_c treated X (and Twitter before it) as the natural place to “ship” recommender-systems news. You published a post, you dropped a link,...
10 new ACM TORS Papers on News, Music, Metrics, and Responsible Recommendation
Ever wondered how ChatGPT would write a summary of newly published articles at ACM TORS? Here is an example (what do you think? Let us...
Tutorial and Short Survey Papers now accepted by ACM TORS
Sharing an update from ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS): the Author Guidelines were revised to include two additional paper types that we’d like to...
New Directions for News Recommender Systems: ACM TORS Special Issue (CfP)
Update 2026-03-08: The submission deadline is extended to April 17th, 2026. News is more important than ever—and yet, if we’re honest, the state of the...
“The most important application of the last 15 years is called RecSys, Recommener Systems” says Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, is not usually the one you expect to put recommender systems at the centre stage. Yet at the U.S.–Saudi Arabia...
A new promising book: “Recommender Algorithms – 2026 Practitioner’s Guide”
I received a very interesting new book “Recommender Algorithms: 2026 Practitioner’s Guide” by Rauf Aliev. I have skimmed only the first hundred pages, so this...
New in ACM TORS: Smarter Promotions, Fairer Algorithms, and the Upside of Bias
ACM TORS announces a set of three newly accepted papers in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems that showcase the journal’s topical diversity: one pushes the...
Spotify and its recommender system has landed inside ChatGPT (for some)
From October 6, 2025, both Free and Premium listeners can connect their accounts and ask for songs, albums, playlists, or podcast episodes directly in a...