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In 2010, Robinson was the chief technology officer at FlyFi, an online music service owned by Maine-based[10] Emergent Discovery which uses his anti-spam programming techniques along with collaborative filtering technologies to help make music recommendations to web users.[11][12] His blog Gary Robinson's Rants has been quoted by others in the computer and online music industries[11] and cited by academic papers.[9][13][14] Robinson helped develop recommendation engine technology which applies high-power mathematical techniques using software algorithms to have a computer guess intelligently about what a consumer might like.[15] For example, if a consumer likes music by artists such as the Beach Boys, Bob Dylanand the Talking Heads, the computer software will match these preferences with a much larger dataset of other consumers who also like those three artists but which cumulatively has much greater musical knowledge than the single consumer. Accordingly, the computer will find music that the user might like but hasn't been exposed to, and therefore hopefully offer intelligent recommendations. But the mathematics behind such comparisons can become quite complex and involved. Robinson studied mathematics at Bard College and graduated in 1979 and studied further at the Courant Institute of New York University.[1] In the 1980s, Robinson worked on an entrepreneurial start-up dating service called 212-Romance which used similar computer algorithms to match singles romantically.[16] The New York City-based voice mail dating service created community-based automated recommendations and usedcollaborative filtering technologies which Robinson developed further in other capacities.
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