After signing up for the "NetFlix Prize," I was kind of disappointed that the critera for "better" was a series of results they would like to see rather than an objective critique of the results.

Still, with a few modifications the CGR system will be able to produce the type of results they are looking for. Let's see if it can also produce the specific results they want.

At Mohawk Software we are working on a number of projects:

Linux PC Robot, MCache, FTSS (Full Text Search System), CGR (Computer Generated Recommendations), and tools for various aspects of computer software development. This takes time, which means, it takes money.

In 2007 we hope to be able to fund an improved service framework for our clients and open source projects. Address bugs in MCache. Release CGR as a full GPL recommendations system. (I'm not aware of any other such project!) We want to implement vision based path planning on The Linux PC Robot. So much to do, so little time.

If you need recommendations on your site, for a limited time only, Mohawk Software will deploy CGR (Computer Generated Recommendations) on your site for 60 days without any cost to you.

The recommendations system, sometimes referred to as collaborative filtering, finds important trends across all your users and can target products and services to specific users based on their particular behavior.

The Mohawk Software CGR system is a synthetic neural network that is created by analyzing all your user's data. Then, the "brain" is used to analyze a user's specific data, and renders its best guesses as to what the user would likely want or need.

the server environment has been restored. Cvs is back on-line.