Congratulations to Informatics graduate student Mohamad Monibi and Informatics faculty member Don Patterson on having their paper, 'Collaborative Predictions from Status' accepted to Ambient Intelligence 2009.

Abstract: In this paper we describe the use of collaborative filtering to make predictions about place using data from custom instant messaging status. Previous research has shown accurate predictions can be made from an individual’s personal data. The work in this paper demonstrates that community data can be used to make predictions in locations that are completely new to a user.