Contact Michael
If you want to contact me, the best way is by e-mail. I also respond on Twitter, but technical or professional conversations there tend to quickly outgrow 140 characters (and I prefer e-mail to Twitter For professional and academic correspondence, please contact me at Boise State University: If you are a student in Introduction to Recommender Systems on Coursera looking for course support, please ask questions in the Coursera discussion boards. If you are a prospective student looking to work in my group, please see my students page, tips for writing a good e-mail, and FAQ. If you want to write to me about personal things (non-academic, related to my personal programming projects, etc.), use my personal address md@ekstrandom.net. Please do not write to my personal address about classes, my research papers, or LensKit. On many services, I am If you are a student looking for work, please see my student openings. Fall 2021 office hours are 10:30–11:30 AM Tuesdays and 10–11AM Fridays. I invite everyone to follow me on Twitter or Mastodon. Please don’t expect me to automatically follow back, or if I follow you to keep following forever; I optimize my twitter feed to provide a personally useful blend of information, and there are many interesting people I do not follow. If you are a student in one of my classes, I will not follow you until the class is over. I also welcome LinkedIn connections. If you want to connect with me on LinkedIn, please say something personalized (even if it is just a brief sentence); if we have met in person or communicated on other forums, mentioning those is good.University Contact
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