The studio manager of the studio Smart Agent Technologies, DI Erich Grstrein, attained his doctorate at the Vienna University of Technology with honors, completing his thesis: "Adaptive Personalization: A multi view personalization approach incorporating contextual information".

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The easyrec team is happy to announce that the first version of the easyrec recommendation engine – easyrec beta 0.9 – is released to the public. The release can be downloaded from the files section of the easyrec project page on sourceforge. We hope that a lot of people appreciate our efforts and download and use our software. The source code for developers interested in joining and enhancing the project will follow shortly.

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This week flimmit launched its recommendation service powered by easyrec. Now, when viewing a movie details page, alternative movies based on other user’s viewing habits are suggested to you.

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At the annual gala for the Austrian state prize for mulitmedia and e-business 2009 the project easyrec was awarded a special recognition of the jury in the catogory "Award for Innovations - IT Innovations for an economic upswing". The easyre team highly appreciates the positive recognition of our efforts and continues to enhance and improve easyrec with a newly refreshed motivation.

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We proudly announce easyrec to be nominated for the austrian national multimedia award in the category ‘Innovation’. easyrec managed to prevail in the preliminary rounds against many competing projects and as one of three finalists has a chance to win the award in a ceremony taking place on the September 28th. Read more under

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flimmit, a video on demand platform which enables film lovers to obtain movies legally on the internet is going to include easyrecs technology to enrich user experience with personalized recommendations. Read more under

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A first set of friendly users are testing easyrec’s MediaWiki Plugin. The plugin is now integrated in Jelinetz MediaWiki and elib.at.

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Today the Beta Version of easyrec, the online recommender service of SAT, was launched for "friendly" user tests. This version is specifically tailored for the integration of the recommender into MediaWiki instances and provides a MediaWiki extension.

Feel free to visit easyrec for more information.

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