Leaders from academia and industry will review RecLab Prize submissions and select up to ten teams to move on to compete for $1 million cash award
iPad and iPhone shoppers account for 90% of all mobile purchases; spend 19% more per order than Android users
Jan 2011 after the 2010 holiday season….
RichRelevance CEO, David Selinger, talks about big data on the Wall Street Journal FASTech blog.
There’s a big gap in Big Data, but it’s not in the numbers—it’s between the engineers and the executives at companies around the world.
“The gap is on the management side,” said David Selinger, CEO of RichRelevance, a company that analyzes retail data to help companies better target customers with the products they want. “The thinking is, if IT is empowered, then management is not empowered.”
Selinger spoke at the VentureWire FASTech conference along with fellow Big Data executives Andi Mann, VP of strategic solutions for CA Technologies, and Jack Story, CTO of Wipro Technologies.
(NOTE: Earlier this year, RichRelevance and CNET announced their strategic partnership to integrate CNET’s rule-based Intelligent Cross Sell recommendations with RichRelevance’s behaviorally-based RichRecs™ offering to offer the industry’s first truly robust personalization solution for the world’s largest online retail sites. Patrick Monasterio is a member of the CNET/{rr} development team and is working with joint customers on integrating this new solution.)
Oh, Facebook. Everyday, we log in to check out our news feed, update our status, see who posted to our wall or tagged us in incriminating photos from last weekend. Activities that were meaningless to most of us five years ago are now ingrained into our daily lives.
Starting today, IBM’s Watson supercomputer will go up against a pair of human Jeopardy champions. Regardless of whether man or machine comes out on top, it will be a banner day for a machine learning technique called ensemble learning.
Last fall I had the pleasure of visiting Barcelona, one of my favorite cities on earth. It normally wouldn’t take much beyond the great Catalan food and wine to entice me to visit, but in this case there was an even more compelling reason to visit—to participate in the ACM Recommender Systems conference and spend time digging into deep technical conversations with some of the leading scientists and engineers in the field.