Recommendation Algorithms, Online Privacy, and More.

The article presents excerpts from the "Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)" Web site. Excerpts from posts written by computer scientists Greg Linden, Jason Hong, Mark Guzdial, and Michael Stonebraker are included. Reader response to the authors' posts are included. Topic...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 10 - 12
Format: Excerpt
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2009
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Summary:The article presents excerpts from the "Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)" Web site. Excerpts from posts written by computer scientists Greg Linden, Jason Hong, Mark Guzdial, and Michael Stonebraker are included. Reader response to the authors' posts are included. Topics include a competition held by Netflix Inc. for a better algorithm used for the Web site's film recommendations, the use of database management techniques to solve climate change problems, and teaching computer programming to students.