Courses

This Oct. 18-19, data mining experts and practitioners from all over the world will gather at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas for M2004, the world's premier data mining technology conference. www.sas.com/m2004

Keynote speakers include:

• William DuMouchel, technology consultant with AT&T Labs.
• Trevor Hastie, internationally recognized statistics and biostatistics professor at Stanford University.
• Bill Kahn, chief scoring officer for Capital One Financial.
• Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon.

In addition, M2004 offers eight conference forums to explore the latest advancements in data mining. Session topics include:

• Bioinformatics.
• Business applications.
• Data mining in database marketing.
• Data mining in education.
• Emerging technologies in data mining.
• Financial services.
• New ideas in data mining.
• Variable selections.

Optional training courses immediately follow the conference, Oct 20-22. http://www.sas.com/events/dmconf/train.html

Register by Sept. 3 and save $200 off the regular conference price. http://www.sas.com/events/dmconf/reginfo.html

For the latest information, call 1.800.333.7660, or visit the M2004 Web site at www.sas.com/m2004

What past attendees have to say about M2004

"This was a superb environment - one of the smartest conference venues I have experienced (and I have experienced a lot). The talks went into greater depth than the talks at many such meetings. Many of the talks were particularly valuable in shedding light on different application areas of data mining."
David Hand, Professor and Head of Statistics, Imperial College, London

"SAS is doing a tremendous service for the data mining community. The conference provides an excellent forum for exchanging ideas and best practices in business and a stage for sharing the latest and best academic research in the field."
Jaideep Srivastava, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

"The conference has opened a whole new world for me."
Rachel Alt-Simmons, Hartford Life Insurance