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UMAP2011 and IJCAI2011

alan — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:36:34 +0000

I’m currently preparing myself for two weeks of Catalan sun, first in Girona for UMAP2011 and then another week in Barcelona for IJCAI2011. Not having been to either of these conferences before, I am (needless to say) quite excited.

At UMAP I will be presenting a poster evaluating how certain demographic data affects [...]

#RecSys2010

alan — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:51:51 +0000

RecoMMender Systems

If you’re reading this, you might have read my previous posts about RecSys2010, and in that case you might know that I had axtremely high expectations for this year’s RecSys conference, and I was not dissappointed.

The conference program had been extended from last year and now included two days of workshops: [...]

#RecSys2010 day 0

alan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:32:30 +0000

I’m in Barcelona, at a hotel a stone’s throw from Parc de la Ciutadella, getting ready for RecSys2010.

Arrived here yesterday and spent most of the day in my hotel room working on my slides for my presentation at the Doctoral Symposium tomorrow. Or at least, I planned on working on them. This being my [...]

#RecSys2010 thoughts

alan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:09:41 +0000

RecSys2010

Just over a week to go till this year’s Recommender Systems conference and I must say I am really looking forward to it. Out of the (not very many) conferences I’ve been to (WSDM2009, RecSys2009, ECML-PKDD2009, IUI2010), last year’s RecSys was the one I enjoyed most (IUI being a very close runner up). [...]

WSDM 2009

alan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:51:35 +0000

WSDM 2009

In February I went to the Second ACM Iternational Conference on Web Search and Data Mining organized at the Yahoo! research center in Barcelona. We had a paper on “A hybrid approach to item recommendation in folksonomies” at the Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval.

Being my first conference, I [...]

CeBIT & Barcelona

alan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:09:08 +0000

So, I guess I got bored with the blogging thing. Never really was into it anyways, mostly wanted to test the software… but as I’m not really doing anything right now (or avoiding doing the things I should be doing) I thought I might write a little update of what’s been going [...]