We invite you to the talk of Jimmy Lin, prior to the 9thRecommender Stammtisch.

talk topic: "WTF: the who to follow service at Twitter" (further details)

Jimmy's bio:

Jimmy Lin is an associate professor in the iSchool at the University
of Maryland, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and
the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He graduated with a
Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2004. Lin's research lies at the
intersection of information retrieval and natural language processing,
and he has done work in a variety of areas, including question
answering, medical informatics, and bioinformatics. Lin's current
research focuses on massively-distributed data analytics in
cluster-based environments.

Recently, Lin just completed an extended sabbatical at Twitter, where
from 2010-2012 he worked on services designed to surface relevant
content for users and the distributed infrastructure that supports
mining relevance signals from massive amounts of data.

time:

05:30 pm - 06:30 pm

location:

plista gmbh,
Torstraße 33-35,
10119 Berlin
//close to U2-Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

pretty close to Prater Garten (location of 9th Recommender Stammtisch)
link (distance 1.6 km)