ResearchGate will host the next Recommender Stammtisch on Thursday, November 14th.
We are looking forward to an exciting talk by Andreas Lommatzsch on online real-time recommendations (details below), followed by a happy hour.

Doors open at 7:30 pm at ResearchGate’s offices at Invalidenstraße 115, 10115 Berlin (close to Naturkundemuseum on the U6 line and to Nordbahnhof). Our Recommender Stammtisch will be following the first day of Stratosphere Summit, if you are there, come on by and join us afterwards.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Program:

7:30 pm Doors open
7:45 pm Welcome words by Ijad Madisch, CEO of ResearchGate
8:00 pm Andreas Lommatzsch: Online News Recommendations in the NRS Challenge

Andreas will give a gentle introduction to the standard toolkit of recommender algorithms and will present solutions how to adapt them to the requirements of online recommendations in streams.

Andreas Lommatzsch is a postdoc at the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he focuses on hybrid recommenders for heterogeneous semantic data. He is also one of the heads behind the ACM RecSys 2013 News Recommender System Challenge (NRS).

Followed by happy hour.

Please register at Eventbrite for this event (it is free).