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KDD Nuggets 97:01, e-mailed 97-01-03

News:
* GPS, new Siftware, Companies, and References in KD Mine

  • http://info.gte.com/~kdd/what-is-new.html

    • * T. Fawcett, Learning with skewed class distributions -- summary

    Publications:
    * GPS, IEEE TKDE Special Issue on Data Mining, December 1996
  • http://www.computer.org:80/pubs/tkde/toc.htm

    • * G. McKiernan, Four-T-Nine-R(sm): Data Mining in Web and
    non-Web Databases,
  • http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/4T9R.htm

    • * J. Fuernkranz, CFP: Applied AI Special issue on
    First-Order Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/ilp_kdd/aai-si.html


    • Siftware:
    * E. Henson, Silicon Graphics MineSet 1.1,
  • http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet


    • Meetings:
    * N. Lavrac, CFP: ILP-97, 17-19 Sep 1997, Prague, Czech Republic,
  • http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilp97.html

    • * T. Hastie, Modern Regression and Classification course - Hawaii
  • http://stat.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.html

    • * M.S. in Computational Finance at Oregon Graduate Institute,
  • http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CompFin/


    • KDD Nuggets 97:02, e-mailed 97-01-09

    Publications:
    * R. Gerritsen, Two Crows data mining site and papers,

  • http://www.twocrows.com

    • * H. Motoda, 2nd CFP: IEEE Expert Spec. Issue on
    feature transformation and subset selection
  • http://info.gte.com/~kdd/nuggets/96/n37.html#item4


    • Positions:
    * I. Pulleyn, Positions at Magnify, Incorporated

    Meetings:
    * GPS, Data Mining Summit 1997, San Francisco, Feb 18-21
  • http://www.dbsummit.com/dm.htm

    • * Z. Ras, CFP: ISMIS-97, Charlotte, NC, Oct 15-18, 1997,
  • http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/~klopotek/ismis97.html

    • * J. Zytkow, CFP: PKDD-97 Trondheim, Norway, June 25-27, 1997
  • http://www.idt.ntnu.no/pkdd97

    • * S. Stolfo, Workshop on R&D Opportunities in Federal
    Information Services, Washignton, D.C., May 13-15, 1997
  • http://www.isi.edu/nsf/


    • KDD Nuggets 97:03, e-mailed 97-01-16

    News:
    * P. Margolis, KD Mine website selected for the PC Webopaedia,

  • http://www.sandybay.com/pc-web

    • * C. Mena, Mining The Net ?
    * B. Masand, 'Neural' Computer Program Digs Up Metal Deposits

    Publications:
    * GPS, Wanted: Short Application Descriptions for DMKD journal
    * E. Rigdon, Marketing News on Data Mining and War Stories

    Meetings:
    * J. Han, Last CFP: SIGMOD'97 Data Mining Workshop,
  • http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd97.html

    • * Houston, Data Mining/Data Warehousing Seminars in Asia
    * M. Berthold, IDA-97 REMINDER, London, Aug 4-6, 1997
  • http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html

    • * M. Klusch, CIA-97 Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents Program
  • http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html

    • * I. Haimowitz, CFP: AAAI-97 workshop on AI Approaches to
    Fraud Detection and Risk Management

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:04, e-mailed 97-01-28

    News:
    * GPS, Information Week on Debunking Data-Mining Myths

  • http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?IWK19970120S0042

    • * N. Uffenheimer, EDS in the data warehouse, datamining, DSS areas

    Publications:
    * J. P. Brown, Data Mining: What Needs To Be Done, And Why.
  • http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown

    • * F. Famili, Intelligent Data Analysis Journal - First Issue is live,
  • http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ida


    • Siftware:
    * B. Li, Parallel C4.5,
  • http://merv.cs.nyu.edu:8001/~binli/pc4.5/


    • Positions:
    * E. Babb, Jobs in data mining in London,
  • http://www.parsys.com/dafs.htm

    • * D. Berleant, Tenure Track, Teaching and Research at U. of Arkansas

    Meetings:
    * D. Stodder, Data Mining Summit program,
  • http://www.dbsummit.com


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:05, e-mailed 97-02-04

    News:
    * W. Kloesgen, KDD-97: Call For Panel Proposals
    * E. Colet, Announcing a regular posting of NBA data mining patterns,

  • http://www.nba.com/news_feat/

    • * GPS, Business Week Feb 3, 1997 Story on Data Mining
    * B. Griffin, Tools for quantifying newgroups and email postings?
    * M. Rebhan, GeneCards: genes, proteins and diseases.
  • http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/cards


    • Publications:
    * A. Basu, CFP: INFORMS Journal on Computing Special issue on
    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    * M. Singh, CFP: IEEE Internet Computing, Special issue on Agents
  • http://www.computer.org/pubs/internet/


    • Positions:
    * W. Buntine, PhD/Masters Research Assistantship at Berkeley

    Meetings:
    * D. Gordon, CFP: ICML-97 Workshop on ML application in the real world
  • http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ICML97/ICML97.html

    • * M. Smyth, Learning Methods Course by Hinton and Jordan,
    Washington, D.C., May 2 -- 3, 1997
    * J. Zytkow, Forthcoming events related to Data Mining
    PKDD'97, ISMIS-97 and KDD-97

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:06, e-mailed 97-02-11

    News:
    * E. Colet, ESPN to regularly show the application of data mining

  • http://www.nba.com/allstar97/asgame/beyond.html

    • * K. Parsaye, IDI Press Release: 'Bridge Between OLAP and Data Mining'

    Publications:
    * R. Greiner, CLNL 4: Computational Learning Theory and Natural
    Learning Systems, v. IV: Making Learning Systems Practical,
  • http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/comp/greop.html

    • * R. Kohavi, MLJ Spec Issue on Applications of Machine Learning
    and the Knowledge Discovery Process, deadline: March 4.
  • http://reality.sgi.com/ronnyk/mljapps/


    • Positions:
    * H. Mannila, Postdoctoral position in data mining /
    pattern matching / spatial data,
  • http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~mannila

    • * F. Provost, KB system developer positions at NYNEX
    Science and Technology

    Meetings:
    * S. Cartmell, PADD 97 update --
  • http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD97/

    • * B. Zupan, IDAMAP-97: Reminder and brief Second CFP
    * G. Widmer, ECML'97 - Papers & Registration Info
  • http://is.vse.cz/ecml97/home.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:07, e-mailed 97-02-24

    Publications:
    * GPS, Review of Adv. KDDM in NeuroVe$t journal

    Siftware:
    * R. Kohavi, SGI MineSet Available for Varsity Members

  • http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet


    • Positions:
    * T. Gutschow, Data Mining Research Position at HNC Software Inc.
    * C. Shearer, Vacancies - Data Mining Tool Development & Consulting :
    UK & US, at ISL
    * W. Zhang, Job: Machine Learning at Boeing

    Meetings:
    * M. P. Singh, 2nd CFP: Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures,
    and Languages (ATAL), Providence, RI, July 24-26, 1997
  • http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/mpsingh/activities/atal/

    • * H. M. Chung, CFP: track on Data Mining at AIS-97,
    Indianapolis, Indiana, August 15-17, 1997
  • http://hsb.baylor.edu/ramsower/ais.ac.97

    • * L. DeRaedt, CFP: IJCAI-97 workshop on Frontiers of Inductive
    Logic Programming, 25 August 1997
    * M. Manago, 2 days course on Data Mining & CBR in San Francisco for
    U. of Berkeley Extension, March 24-25, 1997
    * M. Manago, Tutorial + Seminar on CBR & Data Mining,
    London, 17-19 March 1997,
  • http://www.unicom.co.uk


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:08, e-mailed 97-02-28
    News:
    * GPS, New Location for KD Mine and KD Nuggets: www.kdnuggets.com
    * W. Kloesgen, KDD-97: Second Call For Panel Proposals * P. Maiste, Price Waterhouse announces new data mining services
    * T. Denecke, Query: Data Mining and Workflow Management ?
    * D. Throop, Query: Finding approximately duplicate records ?

    Publications:
    * P. Stolorz, CFP: DMKD special issue on scalable computing

  • http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/dmkdpar
    • Siftware:
    * G6G, Intelligent Software Web Site,
  • http://www.intelligent-dir.com


    • Positions:
    * W. Buntine, summer students and scientist positions in
    autonomous data analysis
    * B. Masand, KDD Job at GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Ma
    * S. Wrobel, Two positions in Machine Learning/Data Mining at GMD --

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:09, e-mailed 97-03-11

    News:
    * P. Domingo, Re: Looking for phrase matching tool
    * R. Jain, Tandem Data Mining Announcement,

  • http://www.tandem.com


    • Siftware:
    * R. Quinlan, C5.0: Successor to C4.5,
  • http://www.rulequest.com


    • Positions:
    * P. Norvig, Job offered in information extraction and learning,
    data mining,
  • http://www.junglee.com

    • * M. Bramer, Research Fellowship in Knowledge Discovery
    * X. Liu, Research Studentship in Intelligent Data Analysis,
  • http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~hui/IDA/home.html

    • * D. Sleeman, University of Aberdeen, Chair of Computing Science
  • http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/people/chair_fp.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:10, e-mailed 97-03-19

    News:
    * J. Brown, Report on DM Summit in San Francisco, Feb 18-21, 1997
    * B. Pearlmutter, Abbadingo One: DFA Learning Competition

  • http://abbadingo.cs.unm.edu/


    • Siftware:
    * K. Schirmer, smart information services GmbH,
  • http://www.newscan-online.de


    • Positions:
    * G. John, IBM DATA MINING ANALYST POSITIONS,
  • http://www.ibm.com/bi

    • * B. Perry, HRL Job Opening: Research Intern/Parttime (KDD, DAI,
    Java)
  • http://www.wins.hrl.com


    • Meetings:
    * M. Bramer, Expert Systems 97: Call for Papers
  • http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/sges/es97.html

    • * M. Smyth, Hinton-Jordan Learning Methods Tutorial, May 1997,
  • http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cbcl/web-pis/jordan/course/

    • * L. De Raedt, Final call for IJCAI-97 Workshop on
    Frontiers of inductive logic programming
    * S. Dzeroski, ILP-97: CFP Reminder
  • http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilp97.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:11, e-mailed 97-03-28

    News:
    * GPS, KDD-97 Tutorials Program

  • http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd97-docs/kdd97.tutorials.html

    • * J. Wiegand, KDD tools/methods for detection of skin malignancies?

    Publications:
    * P. Vitanyi, Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications, 2nd ed.,
  • http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/kolmogorov.html

    • * R. Caldwell, Special Issue and Competition on
    Improving Generalization for Nonlinear Financial Forecasting Models
  • http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ftpub/call.htm


    • Positions:
    * V. Petraglia, Thinking Machines, Consultant Positions
    * M. Ramoni, Research Studentships at the Knowledge Media Institute

    Meetings:
    * G. Widmer, ECML-97 Preliminary Programme,
    23-25 April 1997, Prague, Czech Republic
  • http://is.vse.cz/ecml97/home.html

    • * J. Han, SIGMOD-97 Data Mining Workshop, May 11, 1997
  • http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd97.html

    • * W. Wothke, Chicago ASA Data Mining meeting, May 2, 1997
  • http://www.smallwaters.com/datamine

    • * GPS, Data Mining'97 : Increasing Corporate Performance,
    Paris, June 2-4, 1997,
  • http://www.datamining.org/events.htm

    • * S. Tafolla, XpertUser Conference, 2-5 November 1997, Boston,
  • http://www.XpertUser.com


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:12, e-mailed 97-04-10

    News:
    * E. Colet, Advanced Scout News --

  • http://www.nextstep.com/new_this_week/120/advancedscout.html

    • * A. Andrusiewicz, Query -- Mining Association Rules

    Publications:
    * H. Motoda, Final CFP: IEEE Expert Special Issue on
    Feature Transformation and Subset Selection

    Siftware:
    * O. Leng, WinViz for Excel,
  • http://jsaic.iti.gov.sg/projects/vizMain.html


    • Positions:
    * W. Jones, Knowledge Discovery Research at U. of Alabama at Birmingham
    (UAB),
  • http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/kdrg/kdrg.html

    • * R. Straughan, Senior Consultant in Data Mining at NSRC in Singapore
  • http://www.nsrc.nus.sg


    • Meetings:
    * R. Tibshirani, Modern Regression and Classification course,
    New York , June 23-24, 1997
  • http://stat.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.finance.html

    • * PADD97, Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
    Conference Program, London, 23-25 April 1997,
  • http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD97/

    • * M. Conkling, Data Warehousing Best Practices & Implementation Conference
    Chicago May 27-June 1, 1997,
  • http://www.dw-institute.com/

    • * GPS, Data Mining'97 : Increasing Corporate Performance,
    Paris, June 2-4, 1997, cancelled

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:13, e-mailed 97-04-16

    News:
    * GPS, new address for subscribing to KD nuggets,
    subscribe
    * G. Prisco, Query: Knowledge Discovery in Network Alarm Databases

    Publications:
    * J. Fuernkranz, AAI Spec Issue on First-Order Knowledge Discovery
    in Databases,

  • http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/ilp_kdd/aai-si.html

    • * T. Anand, Review of 'Seven Methods for Transforming Corporate Data
    into Business Intelligence' by Vasant Dhar and Roger Stein
    * S. Kaski, Thesis on data exploration with SOMs available,
  • http://nucleus.hut.fi/~sami/thesis/thesis.html


    • Siftware:
    * L. Zoob, SemioMap, the Discovery Search Application
  • http://www.semio.com

    • * S.D. BYERS, new version of ace.glm for Splus
  • http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/ace.glm


    • Positions:
    * R. Straughan, Senior Consultant in Data Mining at NSRC in Singapore
  • http://www.nsrc.nus.sg

    • * N. Dayanand, Manager of the Data Analysis and Applications group
  • http://www.think.com


    • Meetings:
    * J. Komorowski, PKDD'97 -- Preliminary symposium program,
  • http://www.idt.ntnu.no/pkdd97/

    • * ICML-Colt, ICML-97/Colt-97 call for participation
  • http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/

    • * X. Wu, CFP: IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange
    Workshop (KDEX-97), Nov 3, 1997, Newport Beach, CA, USA
  • http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/kdex-97

    • * M. Smyth, Hinton -- Jordan Learning Methods course:
    spaces still available,
  • http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cbcl/web-pis/jordan/course/


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:14, e-mailed 97-04-23

    News:
    * E. Bertino, Query: data mining from wafers manufacturing process ?

    Publications:
    * M. Ramoni, Technical Reports on Bayesian Knowledge Discovery,

  • http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~marco/projects/kdd

    • * Tom Mitchell, Text book for Data Mining: Machine Learning
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html


    • Siftware:
    * R. Quinlan, Windows Version of C5.0 ('See5') Available Now
  • http://www.rulequest.com

    • * Stanley Rice, Postcoordinate Software
  • http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/darwin.htm

    • * Pamela Lerwick, IDIS Special Release
  • http://www.datamining.com


    • Positions:
    * R. King, Ph.D. Studentships in Data Mining at University of Wales, UK
    * Fred J. Damerau, Research Associate in Text Mining/Information
    Extraction

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:15, e-mailed 97-05-04

    News:
    * R. Uthurusamy, KDD-97 Overview and Tutorials

  • http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd97-docs/kdd97.tutorials.html

    • * R. Uthurusamy, KDD-97 Workshop, Integration of Data Mining and
    Data Visualization
  • http://www.cs.uml.edu/~grinstei/kddvis-workshop.html

    • * R. Uthurusamy, KDD-97 Registration Information
  • http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd97-docs/registrationinfo.html

    • * Peter Turney, data mining from wafers manufacturing process

    Siftware:
    * Nicolas Bissantz, Delta Miner 3.0
  • http://www.bissantz.de


    • Positions:
    * Pablo Tamayo, Job Position at Thinking Machines

    Meetings:
    * E. Horvitz, Call for participation, UAI-97,
  • http://cuai97.microsoft.com

    • * Gordian Institute, 'Making Sense of Data: Computer-Aided
    Pattern Discovery', July 14-18, Charlottesville, Virginia
  • http://www.gordianknot.com

    • * R. Zicari, COMDEX Internet & OBJECT WORLD Frankfurt`97 (Oct 7-10)
  • http://www.ltt.de


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:16, e-mailed 97-05-08

    Publications:
    * GPS, first issue of DMKD journal is published!

  • http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/

    • * Gerhard Widmer, CfP: MLJ Special Issue on Context Sensitivity and Concept Drift
  • http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/mlj_specissue/


    • Siftware:
    * Larry Bouchie, Cognos new Data Mining Tool: Scenario
    * Aleksander Oehrn, Rosetta - rough-set tool for data analysis
  • http://www.idt.unit.no/~aleks/rosetta/rosetta.html


    • Positions:
    * Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Data Mining Company looking for
    experts in decision trees and/or bayesian networks
    * Donal Lyons, Data Mining Research Position in Ireland
    * Yike Guo, Data Mining Job at Fujitsu (Japan)

    Meetings:
    * Pavel Brazdil, The Workshop on 'Extraction of Knowledge from Data Bases' (EKBD'97), Coimbra, Portugal, October 6-9, 1997
  • http://alma.uc.pt:80/~epia97/EKBD97.html

    • * Michael Berthold, IDA-97 Call for Participation
  • http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/ida97.html

    • * Staal Vinterbo, PKDD'97 Call for participation,
    Trondheim, Norway, June 24-27, 1997,
  • http://www.idi.ntnu.no/pkdd97/

    • * Rob Tibshirani, Statistical prediction methods for finance and marketing, New York City: June 23-24, 1997,
  • http://stat.stanford.edu/~trevor/mrc.finance.html

    • * Angi Voss, Workshop on Social Agents at ECSCW97 Conference
    September 7, 1997
  • http://orgwis.gmd.de/projects/SAW/ecscw97SoAg.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:17, e-mailed 97-05-15

    Publications:
    * Phil Chan, CFP: MLJ special issue on IMLM,

  • http://www.cs.fit.edu/~imlm/


    • Siftware:
    * P. Spedding, Cognos' Scenario Wins PC Week Labs Analyst's
    Choice Award,
  • http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0505/05mining.html


    • Positions:
    * COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science &
    Technology (OGI),
  • http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CompFin/

    • * George Smith, Research Assistant Position at UEA, Norwich, UK

    Meetings:
    * Lipo Wang, 2nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
    Data Mining (PAKDD-98), Melbourne, Australia, 15-17 April 1998,
  • http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98

    • * David Leake, ICCBR-97: First Call for Participation,
  • http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr-97.html

    • * Hakan Erdogmus, CASCON'97 CfP,
  • http://www.cas.ibm.ca/cascon/

    • * John R. Koza, GP-97 Revised Call for Participation,
  • http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/gp97.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:18, e-mailed 97-05-27

    News:
    * Ronny Kohavi, Silicon Graphics' MineSet used in Incyte's LifeTools 3D

  • http://www.incyte.com/press/1997/PR9712-LT3D.html

    • * R. Zicari, COMDEX Internet Application Awards,
  • http://www.ltt.de

    • * Brij Masand, HPCwire: Robert Grossman discusses managing, mining
    large data sets

    Publications:
    * GPS, First Issue of DMKD journal is available on-line in PDF
    format,
  • http://www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/kaphtml.htm?DAMISAMPLE

    • * Andy Pryke, Bibliography of KDD and Data Mining Papers,
  • http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~anp/papers.html


    • Meetings:
    * D. Fischer, COLT/ICML Early Registration deadline June 2,
  • http://cswww.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~mlccolt/

    • * Jan Komorowski, PKDD'97 -- Call For Participation,
  • http://www.idi.ntnu.no/pkdd97/

    • * David Heckerman, Summer School on PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS
  • http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/nnm.html

    • * Vasant Honavar, CFP: Workshop on Automata Induction
    Grammatical Inference, and Language Acquisition at ICML-97
  • http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/mlworkshop.html

    • * Honghua Dai, KDEX-97: IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering
    Exchange Workshop,
  • http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/kdex-97

    • * Gordon, CFP: ICML-97 workshop on Reinforcement Learning
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ggordon/ml97ws


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:19, e-mailed 97-06-07

    News:
    * I. Parsa, KDD-97 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Tools Competition
    * GPS, NY Times: Mining the Cosmos data for Extraterrestrials
    signs,

  • http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/surf/060497mind.html

    • * David Isherwood, AMEC Data Mining alliance,
  • http://www.attar.com/pages/amec.htm


    • Publications:
    * U. Fayyad, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, issue 2
  • http://www.research.microsoft.com/datamine

    • * George Paliouras, PhD thesis on refinement of event recognition systems,
  • http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/csonly/cstechrep/Theses/Paliouras/thesis.html

    • * A. Freitas, Ph.D. thesis on KDD available,
  • http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/SystemsArchitecture/DataMining/alex/thesis.html


    • Meetings:
    * Cristina Lopez, Data Warehousing Meeting, Aug 24-29, Boston
  • http://www.dw-institute.com

    • * Shirley, NSF Workshop on Mathematical Techniques to Mine Massive Data Sets
    July 12-15, 1997, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • http://www.lac.uic.edu/m3d-chicago.html

    • * Gordon, ICML-97 workshop: ML APPLICATION IN THE REAL WORLD,
    Nashville, TN, July 12th 1997,
  • http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ICML97/ICML97.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:20, e-mailed 97-06-16

    News:
    * Kamran Parsaye, Emerging Standards and the KDD Cup
    * Alex Goodall, AI Information Bank now On-Line,

  • http://aiintelligence.com/


    • Publications:
    * Michael Berry, Book: Data Mining Techniques for Marketing, Sales and Customer
    Support,
  • http://www.data-miners.com

    • * Federico Pietro, KDD and Data Mining in Italian,
  • http://www.dei.unipd.it/~fontana/Reti/Tesina/kdddm.html


    • Siftware:
    * J. P. Brown, Superinduction Upgrade
  • http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown

    • * Ronny Kohavi, Silicon Graphics' MineSet version 1.2
  • http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet

    • * Marco Ramoni, Software Available: Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer (Beta)
  • http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~marco/projects/bkd/software


    • Positions:
    * Yves Kodratoff, 'professor-researcher' in Laval, France
    * Ed Babb, Job in data mining,
  • http://www.parsys.com/datamine.htm

    • * Patricia Riddle, Datamining Studentship in New Zealand
  • http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~cthombor/PhD/info.txt


    • Meetings:
    * David Leake, ICCBR-97 - 2nd Call for Participation,
  • http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr-97.html

    • * Eric Horvitz, UAI '97 Conference and Full-Day Course Programs
  • http://cuai97.microsoft.com


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:21, e-mailed 97-06-30

    News:
    * Othar Hansson, Great Moments in Data Mining (#1 in a series)
    * Ron Webb, Data Mining Benchmarking Study By The APQC

  • http://www.apqc.org


    • Publications:
    * G. McKiernan, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in MARC Databases
  • http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/4T9R.htm

    • * Sal Stolfo, Report: Towards the Digital Government of the 21st Century,
  • http://www.isi.edu/nsf


    • Siftware:
    * Ronny Kohavi, MineSet Quicktime movies available
  • http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet/movies.html

    • * Abraham Meidan, WizRule 3,
  • http://www.wizsoft.com


    • Positions:
    * Glenn Stone, PostDoc, Sydney, Australia
  • http://www.dms.CSIRO.AU/~gstone


    • Meetings:
    * NADA LAVRAC, ILP Week in Prague, 15-20 Sept. 1997
  • http://labe.felk.cvut.cz/ai_group/kazakov/ilp97/


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:22, e-mailed 97-07-22

    News:
    * Dorothy Firsching, New Datamining discussion list
    * Andy Pryke, 'Savagely networked bad decisions' is an anagaram for ..

    Publications:
    * GPS, July '97 Datamation Article on Data Mining,

  • http://www.datamation.com/PlugIn/issues/1997/july/07mine.html

    • * Michael Beddows, Infoworld 97-07-07, Data Mining articles
  • http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/970707mining.htm

    • * Gerhard Widmer, MLJ Spec Issue on Context Sensitivity,
    Deadline extended to September 20, 1997.
  • http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/mlj_specissue/


    • Siftware:
    * Mike Bell, Q-Why, a rule finding data mining product
  • http://www.qwhy.com/qwhy/

    • * Stuart Inglis, WEKA 2.2 Machine Learning workbench,
  • http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml


    • Positions:
    * Donal Lyons, Ireland: Experienced researcher in Data Mining
    * G. John, USA: IBM Data Mining Analyst and Data Engineer Positions
    * Brij Masand, KDD Job at GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Ma

    Meetings:
    * Claire Nedellec, ECML'98, Chemnitz, Germany, April 21-24 1998

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:23, e-mailed 97-07-31

    News:
    * GPS, KDD-97 Best Paper Awards: The winners are ...
    * John Thompson, Terabyte Challenge News from Magnify Inc.

    Publications:
    * Se June Hong, Special issue of FGCS on Data Mining
    * Torulf Mollestad, PhD on Rough Sets Data Mining

  • http://www.idi.ntnu.no/IDT/grupper/KS-grp/report_technical/tech_papers.html

    • * Huw Roberts, CFP: Information and Software Technology (IST)
    Special Issue on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
  • http://www.labs.bt.com/people/roberthd/cfp.htm

    • * Azmy, Paper on SuperQuery: Data Mining for Everyone,
  • http://www.azmy.com/wp1.htm


    • Siftware:
    * Sergei Arseniev, New version of PolyAnalyst for Windows NT
  • http://www.megaputer.ru


    • Positions:
    * Mark Embrechts, Statistics Faculty position at RPI,
  • http://www.rpi.edu/dept/dses/www/homepage.html

    • * Benedict Tanyi, UK: Data Mining at FUJITSU European Centre,
  • http://www.fecit.com


    • Meetings:
    * Diane J. Cook, FLAIRS-98, Florida, May 17-20, 1998
  • http://www-cse.uta.edu/~cook/flairs98.html

    • * John R. Koza, Genetic Programming Conference (GP-98),
    July 22 - 25, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, www.genetic-programming.org

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:24, e-mailed 97-08-07

    Publications:
    * GPS, ComputerWorld on Data Mining in a vicious circle

  • http://cwlive.cw.com:8080/home/print9497.nsf/All/SL26schrage

    • * Rob Engels, ICML97 'Workshop on ML applications' summary,
  • http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ICML97/wssummary.html

    • * John R. Koza, Paper on Evolvable Hardware and GP,
  • http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/

    • * Se June Hong, Special issue of FGCS on Data Mining, Guest editorial

    Siftware:
    * Ronny Kohavi, Silicon Graphics announces MineSet 2.0
  • http://www.sgi.com/Products/software/MineSet/news/

    • * J.P.Brown, Some results from KDD Database on Miles per Gallon,
  • http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpbrown


    • Positions:
    * Brian W. Bush, Graduate Research Assistant at Los Alamos Nat'l Lab
  • http://www.hr.lanl.gov/Students/gra.html


    • Meetings:
    * Pap, CFP: PADD98 - Practical Applications of KDD,
    25-27 March 1998, London, UK
  • http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD98/

    • * Lipo Wang, 2nd CFP: PAKDD-98,
    Melbourne, Australia, 15-17 April 1998
  • http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/pakdd-98

    • * Saso Dzeroski, ILP-97,
    17-20 September 1997, Prague, Czech Republic,
  • http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilp97.html

    • * Saso Dzeroski, Summer School on ILP and KDD,
    15-17 September 1997, Prague, Czech Republic,
  • http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ilpkdd97.html


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets 97:25, e-mailed 97-08-22

    News:
    * GPS, KDD-97 Conference Report and KDD-97 evaluation form
    * Ismail Parsa, KDD-CUP-97 Summary

    Publications:
    * GPS, Byte 7/97 on Data Mining at your Desk,

  • http://www.byte.com/art/9707/sec17/sec17.htm

    • * Ronny Kohavi, Paper: Data Mining using MLC++,
  • http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/ronnyk/


    • Positions:
    * Laveen N. Kanal, Maryland: Intelligent Tutoring Systems Positions
    * Tom Warden, Menlo Park, CA: Applied Research Position - Data Mining

    Meetings:
    * Yves Kodratoff, EMCSR-98 Symposium: Applications of Data Mining,
    April 14-17 1998, Vienna, Austria,
  • http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/emcsr/

    • * Chiara Giammarco, DS-7 CONFERENCE ON DATABASE SEMANTICS and Data
    Mining, October 7-10, 1997, Leysin, Switzerland
  • http://lbdwww.epfl.ch/conferences/cfpds7/participation.html

    • * John R. Koza, GP-98 PhD Student Workshop,
    Madison, Wisconsin, July 22 - 25, 1998,
  • http://www.genetic-programming.org

    • * Russell Greiner, 5th AI and MATH Symposium,
    January 4-6, 1998, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(TM) 97:26, e-mailed 97-09-02

    News:
    * G. Grinstein, Network Intrusion Dataset and Challenge,

  • http://iris.cs.uml.edu:8080


    • Publications:
    * Tom Dietterich, KDD-97 Invited Talk on Machine Learning
    * Lance Otis, ACM Information Retrieval Conferences in Philadelphia Pa.
    * P. Chan, CFP: MLJ--Integrating Multiple Learned Models (10/1 deadline)
  • http://www.cs.fit.edu/~imlm/

    • * J. Ortega, CFP: AI Review: Issues on the application of data mining

    Positions:
    * M. Kaiser, ABB in Switzerland: Product Data Management
    and Software Certification,
  • http://www.chcrc.abb.com

    • * D. Berleant, University of Arkansas, Computer Systems Engineering Department
    * Emil Weydert, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE: Postdoc in Uncertain Reasoning,
  • http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~weydert/depro


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(TM) 97:27, e-mailed 97-09-17

    News:
    * GPS, New Section in KD Nuggets: Industry-Specific Solutions
    * Alan Beck, New e-Newsletter: D S *, the On-line Executive Journal
    for Data-Intensive Decision Support
    * Andrew Braunberg, New Publication: Data Mining News,

  • http://www.idagroup.com

    • * Steve Gallant, WSJ: NBA and Data Mining

    Publications:
    * I. Parsa, KDD-CUP-97 slides presented during the KDD-97 conference
  • http://www.epsilon.com/new/

    • * S. Vaithaynathan, CFP: AI Review: Special Issue on Data Mining
    on the Internet

    Siftware:
    * Jason Mandell, MATHSOFT Statistical Data Mining Products
  • http://www.mathsoft.com


    • Positions:
    * Peter A. Flach, Visiting research fellowship in ILP at Bristol, UK
    * Yuri Owechko, Research position at Hughes Research Laboratories, CA
    * R. King, Univ. of Wales, UK, Research Associate


    Meetings:
    * Andy Hilford, The Evolution of Data Mining: Technical Strategies
    to Beat your Competition by the Year 2000, New York City,
    Oct 23-24, 1997,
  • http://www.virtualgold.com/conference


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(TM) 97:28, e-mailed 97-09-30

    News:
    * ComputerWorld: Data Mining lifts ski marketing,

  • http://www.computerworld.com:8080/home/online9697.nsf/All/970922ski

    • * R. Kohavi, Two large census datasets available from SGI,
  • http://reality.sgi.com/ronnyk/


    • Publications:
    * Randall Caldwell, J. of Computational Intelligence in Finance:
    Special issue on Complexity and Dimensionality Reduction,
  • http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ftpub/call.htm

    • * Wolfgang Banzhaf, Genetic Programming Book Announcement,
  • http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/people/banzhaf/publications.html



    • Siftware:
    * Jie Cheng, belief network learning system,
  • http://193.61.148.131/jcheng/bnpc.htm

    • * S. Ananyan, Megaputer Intelligence Update,
  • http://www.megaputer.ru


    • Positions:
    * Kenneth D Kopple, Research position at SmithKline Beecham
    Pharmaceuticals,
  • http://www.sb.com/careers


    • Meetings:
    * R. Zicari, Bill Gates to keynote COMDEX Internet & Object World,
    Oct 7-10, 1997, Frankfurt, Germany, URL:
  • http://www.ltt.de

    • * ECML-98, European Conf. on Machine Learning,
    Chemnitz, Germany, April 21-24 1998,
  • http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/ecml98/

    • * Trish Carbone, CFP: AFCEA Federal Data Mining Symposium,
    Washington, D.C., December 16-17, 1997,
  • http://www.afcea.org

    • * Ed Rigdon, 1998 Summer American Marketing Association meeting,
    August 15-18, 1998, Boston, MA
  • http://www.ama.org/conf/summer/98scall.htm


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:29, e-mailed 97-10-08

    News:
    * GPS, San Jose Mercury News on Data Mining,

  • http://www.sjmercury.com/business/datamining100697.htm


    • Publications:
    * Mary Rayward-Smith, New: Int. J. of Mathematical Algorithms (IJMA)
    * Blaz Zupan, CFP: Data Mining in Medicine (Special AIM Journal Issue)
  • http://obelix.ijs.si/BlazZupan/aim/


    • Siftware:
    * Stanley Rice, Context and Conceptual Fuzzy Filtering on the WWW,
  • http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/


    • Positions:
    * L. Bic, Faculty position in database systems at U. California, Irvine
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/


    • Meetings:
    * PAP, CFP: PADD98, 2nd Int'l Conference and Exhibition on The
    Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining,
    March 25 - 27, 1998, London, UK
  • http://www.demon.co.uk/ar/PADD98/

    • * Tiziana Catarci, CFP: Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI-98),
    May 25-27, 1998, L'Aquila, Italy,
  • http://www.ing.univaq.it/avi98/

    • * Ranjan Maitra, Call for Proposals: Continuing Education in the Stat
    Computing Section of the American Statistical Association

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:30, e-mailed 97-10-26

    News:
    * GPS, KDD-97 attendance statistics
    * GPS, Data Mining Story in Washington Technology, Oct 23, 1997,

  • http://www.wtonline.com/tech_business/datamining_link.html

    • * Rob Gerritsen, Exclusive Ore Inc., a new data mining company,
  • http://www.xore.com

    • * R. Zicari, Comdex Awards,
  • http://www.ltt.de


    • Publications:
    * Jerome Friedman, Report: Bump Hunting in High-Dimensional Data,
  • ftp://stat.stanford.edu/pub/friedman/prim.ps.Z

    • * G. John, Ph. D. thesis: Enhancements to the Data Mining Process,
  • http://xenon.stanford.edu/~gjohn


    • Siftware:
    * Ross Quinlan, New Tool for Predicting Values (Regression)
  • http://www.rulequest.com


    • Positions:
    * Alwyn Barry, Research Assistant, Bristol, UK. Using GA for
    the analysis of large consumer data sets
    * Scott Clendaniel, Data Mining Position at Bank of Hawaii

    Meetings:
    * T. Carbone, First Federal Data Mining Symposium,
    December 16-17, 1997, Washington, D.C.,
  • http://www.afcea.org

    • * Jude Shavlik, Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals: 1998 ML Conf
    Madison, WI, July 24-26, 1998,
  • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/icml98/

    • * S. Rubin, IEEE SMC'98 San Diego Call for Mining Papers,
    Oct 11-14 1998, San Diego, California
  • http://www.engr.rutgers.edu/~smc98


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:31, e-mailed 97-11-04

    News:
    * GPS, New Section in Yahoo for Data Mining Companies

  • http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Software/Databases/Data_Mining/

    • * F. Chong, Information on agent-based data mining ?
    * Russell Greiner, moved from Siemens to University of Alberta

    Publications:
    * Saso Dzeroski, CFP: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    Special issue on Inductive Logic Programming and KDD,
  • http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/dami.cfp

    • * G. Ferruzza, White paper: Decision Technologies In Database Marketing,
  • http://www.cmsnet.com/News/DTARTCL2.html

    • * Munindar Singh, Book: READINGS IN AGENTS,
  • http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/1-55860-495-2.asp


    • Siftware:
    * Stanley Rice, Context and Conceptual Fuzzy Filtering on the WWW
  • http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec/



    • Positions:
    * Donal Lyons, Fulbright Scholar Program 1999-2000 as part
    of Data Mining Group in Dublin, Ireland
    * Andreas Weigend, Faculty Jobs at Stern (NYU Business School)

    Meetings:
    * Shusaku Tsumoto, CFP: RSCTC'98, ROUGH SETS AND CURRENT TRENDS
    IN COMPUTING (RSCTC'98), June 22-26, 1998, Warsaw, Poland
  • http://alfa.mimuw.edu.pl/~rsctc/

    • * E. Mephu-Nguifo, CFP: JFA'98, French-speaking Conference on
    Machine Learning, Arras, France, May 18-20, 1998

    Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:32, e-mailed 97-11-17

    News:
    * Sal Stolfo, JAM: 'Agent' based data-mining prototype is at

  • http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sal/JAM/PROJECT

    • * Rakesh Agrawal, IBM's Intelligent Miner Wins the DM Review Award

    Publications:
    * S. Weiss, Book: Predictive Data-Mining: A Practical Guide
    (WITH SOFTWARE),
  • http://www.data-miner.com


    • Siftware:
    * MIT GMBH, DataEngine 2.1 for Windows 95/NT
    * Hugues Marty, New version: Alice 4.3
  • http://www.alice.fr

    • * Stanley Rice, Relevant Access to Text, Media, Markets--by Pidgin,
  • http://www.cruzio.com/~autospec


    • Positions:
    * Markus Buchhorn, Australia: Research Positions
  • http://acsys.anu.edu.au

    • * Davide Roverso, Norway: Research Positions at STO

    Meetings:
    * Bill Goodin, UCLA short course on 'Data Mining Techniques and
    Applications', Feb 2-5, 1998
    * Gordianknot, Courses on Data Mining and Analysis of Financial Markets
    * Thrun, Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery,
    Pittsburgh, PA, June 11-13, 1998,
  • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conald

    • * Serafin Moral, UAI-98: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,
    July 24-26, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • http://www.uai98.cbmi.upmc.edu


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:33, e-mailed 97-11-28

    News:
    * GPS, what is new in KDNuggets
    * Dan Rasmussen, Question: Image Processing Software

    Publications:
    * D. Fisher, Book: Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules
    * P. Turney, Hypertext Bibliographies on Machine Learning

  • http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/bibliographies/

    • * Elisabeth Kyral, Ovum evaluation study of twelve leading DM tools
  • http://www.ovum.com/evaluate/dmi/dmi000


    • Siftware:
    * Dagmar Gerigk, WINROSA: automatically generates fuzzy rules from data
    * R. Paulsen, Data Mining solutions for Call Centers

    Positions:
    * D. Eide, Statistician position in Southern Connecticut
    * Russ Greiner, PostDoc - Learning, Bayesian Nets - UofAlberta

    Meetings:
    * R. Rajkumar, WSC3: World Conference on Soft Computing,
    21-30 June 1998, On the Web,
  • http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/wsc3/

    • * Peter Bartlett, COLT-98, U. Wisconsin-Madison, July 24-26, 1998,
  • http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/COLT-98/


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:34, e-mailed 97-12-09

    News:
    * Michael Beddows, Applied Healthcare/Data Mine Cures Common Gold
    * Julian Clinton, CRISP Data Mining Process Model Workshop,

  • http://www.ncr.dk/CRISP

    • * Torgeir Dingsoeyr, Question: Integration between DM and CBR ?
    * Bharat Rao, Question: Clustering samples in high-dimensional
    BOOLEAN space

    Publications:
    * GPS: ComputerWorld: Data Mining for Fools Gold,
  • http://www2.computerworld.com/home/online9697.nsf/All/971203data

    • * A. (Fazel) Famili, CFP: Intelligent Data Analysis Journal,
  • http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ida

    • * Kalles Dimitris, PhD thesis: Decision trees and domain knowledge
    in pattern recognition,
  • http://www.cti.gr/RD3/People/kalles.htm


    • Positions:
    * Laurence Jacobs, Switzerland: Data Mining Jobs at Credit Suisse

    Meetings:
    * GPS, KDD-98 poster and last call for KDD-98 tutorial proposals
    * Trish Carbone, Reminder: First Federal Data Mining Symposium,
    December 16-17, 1997, Washington, DC.
  • http://www.afcea.org

    • * Jude Shavlik, 1998 Machine Learning Conference,
    July 24-26, 1998, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/icml98/


    • Knowledge Discovery Nuggets(tm) 97:35, e-mailed 97-12-19

    News:
    * Ashwin Srinivasan, The Predictive Toxicology Evaluation Challenge,

  • http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/groups/machlearn/PTE

    • * Charles Elkan, Walmart usage of association rules
    * J. Banholzer, Question: Adaptive Data Mining Systems ?
    * I. Haimowitz, Data Mining at GE Corporate Research and Development

    Publications:
    * GPS, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, volume 1, number 3
  • http://www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/1384-5810+1+3+1997

    • * Michael Beddows, Ovum report on Data Mining,
  • http://www.ovum.com/news/dmi/dmiwp.html

    • * Michael Beddows, ComputerWorld on Industry-specific tools emerging,

    Positions:
    * Fred J. Damerau, Natural Language Understanding at IBM, NY
    * Wei Zhang, BOEING Applied Research Positions
    Education:
    * Ronny Kohavi, Training for Data Mining and Visualization using
    SGI's MineSet,
  • http://mineset.sgi.com

    • * Padhraic Smyth, New MS program at UC Irvine in KDD and data mining
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gcounsel/applicantfaq.html

    • * Goodin, Bill, UCLA short course on 'Evolutionary Computation',
  • http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses


    • Meetings:
    * Alex Kogan, Fifth International Symposium on AI and Mathematics,
    Jan 4-6, 1998, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
  • http://rutcor.rutgers.edu/~amai