Netflix Prize Winner announced: commendo's joint team wins
It was an amazing day for commendo's head researchers, Andreas Töscher and Michael Jahrer. On September 21st, 2009 Netflix officially presented the winner of the Grand Prize in New York City: Team BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos!
commendo – in the joint multinational team of "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos" – were the leading competitor on the decisive test set and invited to the final verification process, which ended two weeks ago.
The contest was started by the world's largest online movie rental service Netflix.com in October 2006 and involves a prize money of no less than 1 million US-Dollars. The challenge was to improve Netflix's existing recommendation software by more than 10 percent. The commendo team, who had accepted the challenge together with more than 40,000 other teams from 185 countries, already won the Netflix Progress Prize 2008.
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