We are happy to inform you all that Krishna Bharat, Principal Scientist at Google, has accepted our invitation to serve as Keynote Speaker for the ACM Recommender Systems 2007 Conference. Krishna is the creator of Google News, and also headed Google’s Bangalore R&D Center starting in 2004.

Please visit the RecSys07 website for further information.

We are very pleased to announce ACM Recommender Systems 2007.

This Conference builds on a wonderful legacy of research workshops and the Recommenders06 Summer School on the Present and Future of Recommender Systems, organized by MyStrands last year in Bilbao.

The Conference will bring together the leaders of this field–from both research and practice–to explore the latest innovations, discuss important challenges, and advance our understanding of recommender systems.

RecSys07 is organized by Prof. Joseph A. Konstan (General Chair). Prof. John Riedl and Prof. Barry Smyth are the Research Program co-Chairs. As of today, the Practice/Industry Program Committee is compossed of:

• Dr. Francisco J Martin, MyStrands (Practice/Industry Program Chair);
• Todd Beaupre, Yahoo! Inc;
• Rafael Camargo, Motorola, Inc;
• Maikki Frisk, Nokia Corporation;
• Jason Herskowitz, AOL Inc;
• Kaushal Kurapati, Ask.com;
• Dominic Pride, France Telecom, SA.

Please visit the RecSys07 website for further information.