Netflix Settles Privacy Suit, Cancels Netflix Prize II
"We thought that it would generated some big interest among a couple hundred machine learning experts. It became a news-making machine." That's what Netflix spokesman, Steve Swasey, told Forbes following the announcement that the Netflix Prize II had been canceled and that the company had settled a lawsuit relating to the first Netflix Prize. The first contest awarded $1 million to the person, or ...
After a vicious, three-year battle royale, Netflix finally closed its statistics geek algorithm contest Sunday. The Netflix Prize competition pitted teams of competitors against one another in hopes of improving the appropriateness and accuracy of the site's movie recommendations feature. While the results have not yet been finalized, a virtually unknown underdog emerged at the last minute to ...








