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Award-Winning Paper Reveals Key to Netflix Prize
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1021/070209_Yehuda_Koren.large.jpg?1246541965&1246541964 "Yehuda Koren of Yahoo! Research Israel")
"The way I rate movies today can be very different from how I rate them even tomorrow," says Yehuda Koren of Yahoo! Research Israel. Those differences are accounted for by the improved algorithm that makes Koren's team the likely winner of the NetFlix Prize.
Credit: Yehuda Koren
When the organizers of the Netflix Prize contest announced late last week that one team had met the requirement for the $1 million Grand Prize, Yehuda Koren, a member of the seven-person multinational team, was in Paris to present a paper at KDD-09, the
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