Connectionists: Netflix Prize Announcement

[Jim Bennett]

Netflix is pleased to announce the Netflix Prize, an award of $1 million
to the first person or team who can achieve certain accuracy goals when
recommending movies based on personal preferences.  The company also
made 100 million anonymous movie ratings available to contestants.
Complete details for registering and competing for the Netflix Prize are
available at www.netflixprize.com <http://www.netflixprize.com> .  We
especially invite members of the machine learning community to
participate.