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Workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation

alan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:08:17 +0000

Earlier today we got the acceptance notification of our workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation which we will be organizing at next years (2011) Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference which will be held at Stanford University in February next [...]

Context-aware Movie Recommendation – CAMRa

alan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:38:05 +0000

As I’ve written earlier, at this year’s RecSys we’re organizing a challenge on context-aware movie recommendation. The challenge is part of a joint event together with the workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS) and I’m anticipating both events to be very interesting.

We’re done with the reviewing and currently waiting for the camera ready versions to [...]

RecSys 2010 Workshop

alan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:31:54 +0000

It’s been official for a couple of days now, we got our workshop proposal for RecSys 2010 accepted.

The idea is to have a context-aware movie recommendation challenge. The challenge will be held as joint event with the Context-aware Recommender Systems workshop,which was held for the first time at last years’ RecSys. We’re co-orinating the event [...]

What is context?

alan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:52:13 +0000

There's been loads and loads of publications written about context awareness, but very little on what context actually is. Is it the user's situation, the item's situation, or any other surronding features? What about the statics and dynamics of it? What are the major differences of static and dynamic [...]

Zanzibaritis

alan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:11:30 +0000

Friends of mine decided to move their company to Zanzibar for three months (November 2009 – January 2010). This did of course mean that, being the good friend that I am, I had to visit.

So, on January first, not very much after I had gotten back from the New Year’s celebration I was [...]

IUI2010

alan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:34:25 +0000

IUI2010

I’m currently at the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Hong Kong. We’re halfway through the programme, having heard sessions on Access/Brain Interfaces, Smart Reading, Intelligent Agents, Mobile Interaction and the workshops (Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications, Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems, Eye Gaze in [...]

Movie ratings vs. video ratings

alan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:48:26 +0000

I found this pretty interesting blog-post by Youtubes’ Shiva Rajaraman about the distribution of rating in Youtube videos. Seems almost no people rate videos with anything else than five stars. As soon as I read it I did a similar plot of the Filmtipset dataset I’ve been working on lately.

It seems that there’s quite [...]

Hadoop

alan — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:03 +0000

setting up a single node Hadoop-cluster turned out to be a pretty simple [...]

Free music services

alan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:55:21 +0000

About a year ago I started using Spotify as my main music provider, last month I also got a Premium account and have been using Spotify in my phone, at work, and at home. A couple of weeks a go I was pointed to Grooveshark, which is a very interesting competitor to Spotify. So I [...]

The Prodigy

alan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:30:11 +0000

Amazing concert, nothing more, nothing less.

The Prodigy at Arena-Berlin