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Speaker:        Dr. Joseph A. Konstan
                University of Minnesota

Topic:          "The GroupLens Research Project: Collaborative Filtering
                 Recommender Systems"

Date:           Thursday, 17 January 2002

Time:           3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater G
                (Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theater, near lift nos. 25/26)
                The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology


ABSTRACT:

Since 1992, the GroupLens Research Project has been exploring ways to use
the opinions of a community of users to help each member more effectively
filter content in a personalized way.  This talk reviews the history of
the GroupLens project, including its Usenet News and MovieLens research
recommenders, and the experiences of five years of commercial recommender
applications.  It focuses on major research results and experiments with
new and different interfaces to support communities of recommender system
users.  A variety of research papers on the topic can be found at
www.grouplens.org, and MovieLens, our current research system, can be
found at www.movielens.org.



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Biography:

Joseph A. Konstan is Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Minnesota.  His research addresses a
variety of human-computer interaction issues related to filtering,
comprehending, organizing, and automating large and complex data sets. He
is probably best known for his work in collaborative filtering (the
GroupLens recommender system) and multimedia authoring.  In 1996, he
co-founded Net Perceptions, Inc., a company that has since developed
collaborative filtering systems into a variety of commercial
personalization tools.

Dr. Konstan received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
in 1993; he is an ACM Lecturer, editor of the SIGCHI Bulletin, and a
member of the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee.



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