Luther professor wins national award

Luther College associate professor of computer science Bradley Miller is among a group of people who are being given the Association for Computing Machinery's 2010 Software System Award for GroupLens Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems.

The GroupLens team's collaborative filtering recommendation systems show how a set of users can receive personalized recommendations by sharing ratings.  Recommender systems draw on machine learning, human computer interaction, e-commerce, information retrieval, databases and other computer science fields.

Based on automated collaborative filtering, these recommender systems were introduced, refined and commercialized by the GroupLens research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, which specializes in recommender systems, online communities, mobile and ubiquitous technologies, digital libraries and local geographic information systems.

Miller and the others involved in GroupLens will receive their award in California in June.