Netflix Prize Presentation: Los Gatos CA, December 17

[Jon Sanders]

Netflix is proud to host a free public presentation by the winners of this year's Progress Prize in the Netflix Prize competition. Andreas Töscher and Michael Jahrer of team BellKor in BigChaos will describe the algorithms their team employed to reach a 9.44% improvement over Cinematch’s prediction accuracy.

 

When: December 17, 2008 @ 4pm PT

 

Where: Netflix headquarters

100 Winchester Circle

Los Gatos, California, 95032

 

Details of the event and copies of the winning team’s system description papers can be found on the Netflix Prize forum.

 

Regards,

Jon Sanders

Netflix, Inc.