CS undergrad alumni are strong contenders for NetFlix Prize
July 29, 2009
Two graduates of Princeton CS, Lester Mackey and David Weiss, were on
a leading team for the $1M NetFlix competition. The goal of the
competition is to significantly improve on NetFlix's algorithm for
recommending movies to their users. Lester and David's solution
employs modern machine learning methods, and they began working on
this problem in 2007 while taking COS424:Interacting with Data with
Professors Robert Schapire and David Blei.
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