On June 26, 2009 18:42:37 UTC, "BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos" team have submitted their program. This submission have made an improvement of 10.05% in Netflix recommendation system.In accordance of the rules of the Netflix Challenge the competition has entered in last phase. Now teams have thirty (30) days, until July 26, 2009 18:42:37 UTC, to make submissions that will be considered for this Prize.
As you can see on the leaderboard of the netflix competition, this is the first team that has made improvement of more than 10 %.
Earlier to them PragmaticTheory were the closest compititor with improvement of 9.8%.
Anyways Congratulation to BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos. The team is international coalition of four teams competing in Netflix Competition. The team consisted engineers from AT&T Research, commendo research and consulting, Pragmatic Theory and Yahoo! Research.
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