Workshop on fairness and ethics in recommendation systems

Posted By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab on 6 Sep, 2017

On the last day of the RecSys 2017 conference I was fortunate enough to be in the organizing committee of the workshop on fairness, accountability and transparency in recommendation systems (F.A.T.REC). This workshop was the first of its kind within the RecSys community ; the conference is indeed usually very much tech-oriented and Joe Konstan, who chaired the very first ACM Recsys conference, indicated in a plenary session that he wanted more space to be dedicated...