KDnuggets^TM News 04:14, Jul 27, 2004

• (item1) Winner of SIGKDD 2004 Innovations Award is ...
• (item2) Winner of SIGKDD 2004 Service Award is ...
• (item3) Poll Results: Data Miners Education Level
• (item4) New Poll: Years of Data Mining Experience?

• (item5) Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Charlottesville, VA, Sep 13-14
• (item6) DATA MINING: LEVELS I, II & III [ San Diego: Sept | Las Vegas: Nov]
• (item7) Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining

• (item8) Dallas, TX: Senior Data Mining Analyst at Mary Kay, Inc
• (item9) Houston, TX: Marketing Optimization Architect - 852336 at HP
• (item10) Houston, TX: Sales Optimization Architect - 852334 at HP
• (item11) San Jose, CA: Sr. Operations Research Analyst at eBay
• (item12) Medford, MA: Data Mining Analyst at Cross Country Automotive Services
• (item13) Framingham, MA: Department Systems Coordinator at Bose Corporation
• (item14) New York, NY: Manager, Membership Program Advanced Analytics at Barnes & Noble
• (item15) Boulder, CO and Portland, OR: Research Analyst/Research Associate at Quantec, LLC
• (item16) Washington, DC: Software Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies (APT)

• (item17) Freeware: Microsiris statistical software, including ISR SEARCH program
• (item18) Neural Network Freeware for Classification and Regression

• (item19) Clustering special issue
• (item20) New Book: Managing Data Mining: Advice from Expert, by Stephan Kudyba
• (item21) New Book: Data Mining in Time Series Databases
• (item22) 22 Conference Presentations, Salford Systems launches new website
• (item23) Java Data Mining (JSR-73) Specification approved
• (item24) KXEN Case Study: Credit Card Fraud Detection

• (item25) Federal Data Mining - what is next?
• (item26) Artprice Knowledge - Behavioural Data Mining for the Art Market
• (item27) IDC: Business Objects a Worldwide Revenue Leader in BI Tools
• (item28) Visualize and Insightful Corporation Form Strategic Marketing Alliance
• (item29) Toronto Microarray Facility Chooses Inforsense 1.9 For Genomic Research
• (item30) Life After Death for CAPPS II?
• (item31) Full Capture Solutions, Inc. Secures $5 Million in Venture Funding
• (item32) Democrats and Republicans Square Off In a Database Duel
• (item33) KXEN joins COGNOS' GLOBAL PARTNER PROGRAM
• (item34) Mesa Dynamics Releases "theConcept" Text Mining Software for Mac OS X

• (item35) KDD-04 Workshops, Seattle, WA, Aug 22
  Parallel and distributed data mining at Euro-Par 2004, Pisa, Italy, Aug 31 - Sep 3
  ILP-2004, Porto, Portugal, Sep 6-8
  ECML/PKDD-2004, Pisa, Italy, Sep 20-24
  Tightening the Net: Information Services for Biology, Oct 12-15
  
• (item36) BI CONNECT UK 2004, 8-9 September, London - Placing Business Intelligence at the heart of your organisation

• (item37) SIGKDD Explorations special issue on Web Content Mining, deadline Sept 20
• (item38) Data Mining in the Geosciences (special session), deadline Sep 1
  Special Issue on Information mining from multimedia databases, deadline Sep 1
  SIAM Conference on Data Mining, Workshops/Tutorials Proposals deadline Sep 3
  FIMI'04 Workshop on Frequent Itemset Mining Implementations, deadline Sep 3
  Data Mining, Intrusion Detection, Information Assurance, And Data Networks Security 2005 (OR24), deadline Sep 13
  AI-2004 (Cambridge, UK) Call for Posters, deadline Sep 10
  SIAM Conference on Data Mining, deadline Oct 4
  Conference on USER MODELING UM05, deadline Dec 6
  PAKDD-05: Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, deadline Dec 22
  Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2005), deadline Jan 28, 2005

Data is not information; information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom. Gary Flake, Principal Scientist & Head of Yahoo! Research Labs, July 2004.