A Netflix Prize win is nigh: How they did it

Breaking news: On Friday, Netflix Prize team “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos” passed the mark, qualifying for the $1,000,000 prize. The team includes last February’s PAW speaker Andreas Töscher. But they haven’t won yet. Their qualification...

Keynotes at October’s PAW: Stephen Baker and Usama Fayyad

Predictive Analytics World, coming October 20-21 to Washington DC, has a great line-up of keynote speakers: Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati and senior writer at BusinessWeek, where he's been since 1987. Steve's book has received a tremendous amount of...