NetFlix Announces $1 Million Contest Winner
As promised earlier this month, Netflix today announced the winner of its $1 million prize for the tech team that could improve the online DVD rental company’s customer recommendation system by 10 percent.
From the New York Times:
The winner, formally announced Monday morning, is a seven-person team of statisticians, machine-learning experts and computer engineers from the United States, Austria, Canada and Israel. The multinational team calls itself BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos. The group — a merger of teams — was the longtime frontrunner in the contest, and in late June it finally surpassed the 10 percent barrier.
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