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In Memoriam: John Riedl

In Memoriam: John Riedl 13 In Memoriam: John Riedl ANTHONY JAMESON, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) This recollection of John Riedl, founding coeditor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, presents a picture by editors of the journal of what it was like to collaborate and interact with him. Categories and Subject Descriptors: A.0 [General Literature]: General--Biographies/ autobiographies On July 15th of this year, ACM TiiS lost its founding coeditor-in-chief, Professor John Riedl, who had fought cancer for 3 years with his characteristically boundless energy, intelligence, and good humor. John is known and admired around the world as a pioneering and perpetually leading researcher in the areas of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent systems. The awards granted to him in the ACM context alone include the titles of ACM Distinguished Scientist and Fellow and the 2010 Software System Award--with the GroupLens team, whose MovieLens has served as a mainstay of recommender systems research since 1997. He was a cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of the influential early Internet company Net Perceptions. One TiiS associate editor put it this way: Some researchers know how to take an idea and run with it. John Riedl was a guy who http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) Association for Computing Machinery

In Memoriam: John Riedl

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2160-6455
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10.1145/2533670.2533671
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13 In Memoriam: John Riedl ANTHONY JAMESON, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) This recollection of John Riedl, founding coeditor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, presents a picture by editors of the journal of what it was like to collaborate and interact with him. Categories and Subject Descriptors: A.0 [General Literature]: General--Biographies/ autobiographies On July 15th of this year, ACM TiiS lost its founding coeditor-in-chief, Professor John Riedl, who had fought cancer for 3 years with his characteristically boundless energy, intelligence, and good humor. John is known and admired around the world as a pioneering and perpetually leading researcher in the areas of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent systems. The awards granted to him in the ACM context alone include the titles of ACM Distinguished Scientist and Fellow and the 2010 Software System Award--with the GroupLens team, whose MovieLens has served as a mainstay of recommender systems research since 1997. He was a cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of the influential early Internet company Net Perceptions. One TiiS associate editor put it this way: Some researchers know how to take an idea and run with it. John Riedl was a guy who

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ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Oct 1, 2013

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