Joe Konstan, A.B. ’87 (computer science), has been recognized with the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval’s (SIGIR) Test of Time Award.
Konstan received the award with collaborators Jon Herlocker, Al Borchers, and John Riedl (posthumous), for their 1999 paper “An algorithmic framework for performing collaborative filtering.” Their paper, published just five years after the first work on automated collaborative filtering systems, introduced a rigorous and scientific approach to developing and tuning those systems.
Konstan, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, studies human computer interaction, social computing, collaborative information filtering, online communities, and medical and health applications of internet technology.
Read more in this University of Minnesota press release.
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