For details on the algorithm behind Jester, please see:
Eigentaste: A Constant Time Collaborative Filtering Algorithm.
Ken Goldberg, Theresa Roeder, Dhruv Gupta, and Chris Perkins. Information Retrieval, 4(2), 133-151. July 2001.
Jester 4.0 Project Team:
Ken Goldberg, Tavi Nathanson, Ephrat Bitton
Jester 3.0 Project Team:
Ken Goldberg, Robert Hennessy
Jester 2.0 Project Team:
Ken Goldberg, Dhruv Gupta, Chris Perkins
Jester 1.0 Project Team:
Ken Goldberg, Dhruv Gupta, Hiro Narita, Mark DiGiovanni
We thank:
Richard Wallace, Hal Varian, Vivek Sanghi, Carol Kirschenbaum, Avi Goldberg, David Pescovitz, Bob Farzin, Adam Jacobs, Derek Poon, and Cathie Walker
Press:
- California Magazine: Foolproof funny: better humor through computer science, 3/20/09
- Wired Campus: Web Site at U. of California at Berkeley Tailors Jokes to Individual Tastes, 4/1/08
Reviews:
Eigentaste:
Eigentaste, the algorithm that powers Jester, was developed at UC Berkeley by Prof. Ken Goldberg et. al. To learn more about it, go here.
More Information:
For more information, see the following paper:
Algorithms, Models and Systems for Eigentaste-Based Collaborative Filtering and Visualization
Tavi Nathanson. Master's thesis, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, May 2009.