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ACM SIGKDD (ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining), the leading data mining society, invites your nominations for SIGKDD Innovation Award and SIGKDD Service Award.

SIGKDD Innovation Award

One SIGKDD Innovation Award will be given to one individual or one group of collaborators who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field.

Previous SIGKDD Innovation Award winners were Rakesh Agrawal (IBM) in 2000, Jerome Friedman (Stanford) in 2002, and Heikki Mannila (Helsinki U. of Technology) in 2003.

SIGKDD Service Award

One SIGKDD Service Award will be given to one individual or one group who has performed significant service to the field, that include professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information to the field, education, research funding, etc.

Previous SIGKDD Services Award winners were Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets) in 2000, Ramasamy (Sam) Uthurusamy (GM) in 2002, and Usama Fayyad (DMX group) in 2003.

Nomination Process

Each nomination should be co-sponsored by at least 3 people. Email co-sponsorship is accepted. Nominations should include a 1-2 page word statement to justify the nomination, and other supporting materials.

At most one award will be given each year in each category.

Nominations will be valid for a period of 3 years.

Deadline for nominations: Please send all nomination materials by June 25, 2004 to Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, gregory at kdnuggets.com.

The awards will be presented at ACM SIGKDD-2004 conference, Seattle, WA, August 22-25, 2004.

Exclusion: People on the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee or current SIGKDD Chairman Won Kim are not eligible to be nominated.

ACM SIGKDD 2004 Awards Committee (tentative)

• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets), Chair
• Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
• Jerome Friedman (Stanford)
• Heikki Mannila (Helsinki U. of Technology)
• Daryl Pregibon (Google)
• Foster Provost (New York University)
• Sam Uthurusamy (GM)