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DM: Exciting data mining conference in Boston MA, USA, August 20-23From: Paul Bradley Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:11:09 -0700 KDD-2000: The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA Conference Headquarters: World Trade Center and Seaport Hotel http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000 The KDD conference series is the premiere event for the data mining community, bringing together more than 800 data mining professionals from industry and academia (our participation rates are 60% industry and 40% academia). For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000. +--------------------------------+ | KDD-2000 Conference Highlights | +--------------------------------+ The conference features Research Track keynotes, paper and poster presentations; Industrial Track keynotes, invited industrial speakers and presentations; Tutorials; Workshops; Panels on controversial issues and areas of interest and, extensive vendor and publisher Exhibits. The conference also features KDD-Cup, the Fourth International Data Mining Tools Competition. Research Track includes Keynote Addresses by: o Christos H. Papadimitriou, UC-Berkeley, "On Certain Rigorous Approaches to Data Mining" o Jason Catlett, Junkbusters Corp., "Among Those Dark Electronic Mills: Privacy and Data Mining" o Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh, "Informed Knowledge Discovery: Using Prior Knowledge in Discovery Problems" Industrial Track includes Keynote Addresses by: o James Goodnight, CEO, SAS, "Decision Support in the Booming E-World" o Michael Saylor, CEO, MicroStrategy, "One to One Relationships via Web, Wireless and Voice" Industrial Track also includes Invited Talks by: o Matt Cutler, CeIO, NetGenesis, "E-Metrics: Tomorrow's Business Metrics Today" o David Stodder, Editorial Director, Intelligent Enterprise, "After the Gold Rush: Data Mining and the New Economy" KDD-2000 Tutorials: The KDD-2000 Tutorial program provides intensive and inexpensive training opportunity to participants from industry and government. The timeliness of the proposed topics make them of value to academic researchers as well. Tutorial attendance is included with KDD-2000 registration. Tutorials will occur on Sunday, August 20, 2000. The following Tutorials are offered this year: o Data Mining for HyperText o Multidimensional Visualization o Knowledge Discovery in Biological Domains o Data Mining for Successful Customer Management (CRM) o Time Series Similarity Measures o High Performance Data Mining KDD-2000 Workshops: The workshops aim at discussing recent research advances in focused areas of knowledge discovery and data mining. They are intended to be small and intimate to foster open discussion. The following Workshops are offered this year: o Web Mining for E-Commerce o Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery o Multimedia Data Mining o Post-Processing in Machine Learning and Data Mining o Text Mining KDD-2000 Panels: Panels address new, exciting, and controversial issues in the data mining community. The following Panels are offered this year: o KDD Process Standards o Personalization and Data Mining: Exploring the Synergies o Privacy KDD-Cup-2000: The popular KDD Cup competition for applications of data mining focuses this year on analysis of web clickstream data from an apparel retailer. The awards ceremony for this year's winners will be held on Sunday, 8/20 following the conference inauguration. KDD-2000 Exhibits: The exhibits will stay open on Monday, 8/21 and Tuesday, 8/22. A select list of Exhibitors includes: Accrue, AIM Learning, Amazon.com, Angoss, Blue Martini, Carat, High Tower, i2inc, IBM, K.wiz, Kxen, Marcom, MathSoft, Megaputer, Mineit, Multilogic, Salford Systems, Spotfire, SAS, SPSS, Urban Science, Visual Numerics, Whitecross, WizSoft, Xchange The registration fee includes all conference events, proceedings and food (breakfast, lunch and breaks.) Come confer with us in the midst of discussions, demos, food and refreshments. For more detailed information, please see: http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000/
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