[Year 12 SofDev] Algorithms, Netflix, Data mining

[Mark Kelly]

In October 2006, Netflix announced it would give a cool seven figures to 
whoever created a movie-recommending algorithm 10 percent better than 
its own. Within two weeks, the DVD rental company had received 169 
submissions, including three that were slightly superior to Cinematch, 
Netflix's recommendation software. After a month, more than a thousand 
programs had been entered, and the top scorers were almost halfway to 
the goal.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix

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