MyStrands is announcing today the “Strands $100,000 Call for Recommender Start-ups“.
We seek to identify the best early-stage project in the area of recommendation technologies, considering the technology, business opportunity and team behind the project (without limitations as to which field the technology is applied).
The Winner will be offered an investment of $100,000 from Strands, Inc. [...]
We are very pleased to announce ACM Recommender Systems 2008 (RecSys08), the annual event on research and applications of recommender technologies, where the recommendation industry and academia come together. MyStrands’ CEO, Francisco Martin, will repeat as Industry co-chair this year, along with Unilever’s Shail Patel.
This conference builds on the success of Recommenders06 [...]
I had the pleasure of attending the ACM Recommender Systems Conference, as part of the research division of MyStrands (as well as a participant in the associated doctoral consortium). I was also offered the opportunity to discuss a few of the papers and “themes” of the conference in more detail here as a guest blogger.
There [...]
A few of us are in Minneapolis right now attending the Recommender Systems Conference. The conference is in its 2nd year and brings together academics and industry to discuss the future, challenges and opportunities for recommender systems. This year there are about 110 participants from 15 countries, including industry representation from Netflix, Amazon, [...]
Next week we’ll be involved in several interesting events:
On Monday the 15th Atakan Cetinsoy participates in Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco, in the panel Disruptive or New Business Models. The Mobile 2.0 conference brings together experts and thought leaders from all aspects of the mobile ecosystem, including investors, mobile carriers, device manufacturers, mobile application developers, [...]
The Industry Committee of the ACM Recommender Systems 2007 has assembled two exciting industry panels for the Conference:
Friday October 19th: Where should we be investing most in research and practice to increase value of recommenders?
Moderator: Todd Beaupre, Yahoo, Inc.
Joaquin Delgado, CTO, Lending Club Corp.
Jason Herskowitz, VP of Consumer Products, MyStrands
Kartik Hosanagar, Assistant Professor, Wharton [...]
The technical program for ACM Recommender Systems 2007 is now posted on the conference website. Highlights include:
* A Keynote address by Krishna Bharat, principal scientist at Google and creator of Google News.
* 16 full-length technical papers, plus an exciting poster and demo program
* Still to be finalized — two industry-driven panel [...]
