3 RecSys Workshops and RecSys KDD Cup at the 2023 KDD conference
KDD is a premier conference and KDD 2023 is also interesting for recommender-systems researchers as it features 3 recommender-systems workshops. Namely, EvalRS2023, A Well-Rounded Evaluation...
List of 18 Workshops at ACM RecSys 2023 published
ACM RecSys released the list of 18 accepted workshops. That’s quite a number, and as high as in 2021. Looking at time, the number of...
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...
CfP: Special Issue on Responsible Recommender Systems (ACM TIST)
We publish the following Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Responsible Recommender Systems with accepted submissions to be published in the ACM Transactions...
The Web Conference 2023 requires at least one full non-student registration for accepted papers, even for students.
The Web Conference 2023 (formerly WWW) is a notable conference in the field of recommender-systems. This year, the conference chairs decided that authors of accepted...
Volume 1, Issue 1 of ACM TORS published
Congratulations are in place: A few days ago, volume 1, issue 1 of the ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems was published. The issue consists of...
Which researchers have made the most significant advancements in recommender system research? (ChatGPT)
My prediction is that in the foreseeable future, researchers will not only worry about their Google Scholar profile but also about what ChatGPT (or similar...
RecSys Summer School 2023
Great news for PhD and Master students: in 2023, there will be a recommender-systems summer school (the last one was in 2019). This year’s summer...
Creating a Recommender System Prototype Using LensKit and MovieLens
LensKit is a flexible Python library for creating, testing, and evaluating recommender systems. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you step-by-step to build a recommender system...
Interview with Max Harper (Co-Chair of ACM RecSys 2022) on Career Choices, Work-Life Balance, and More
The ACM RecSys conference starts tomorrow, and I had the opportunity to talk for almost an hour with Max Harper, one of the general co-chairs...