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Netflix Prize: 10% barrier has been broken

Congratulations to the team BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, who appears to have broken the 10% Cinematch barrier of 10% performance:

June 26, 2009: Today our team submitted our solution to the Netflix Prize, resulting in a score of .8558, which corresponds to an improvement over Netflix Cinematch algorithm of 10.05%. This is the first submission in the competition to break the 10% barrier and sets off a 30 day period where all competitors are invited to submit their best and final solutions.

Who:


Kendall Giles

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Status:


Assistant Professor
Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research
College of Humanities and Sciences
Virginia Commonwealth University

Associate Staff Scientist
Human Language Technology Center for Excellence (HLTCOE)
Johns Hopkins University

Contact Information


Email:


Office:
Mail:


first two letters of first name + last name + @vcu.edu
Oliver 2061
PO Box 843083
1001 West Main Street
Richmond, VA 23284

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