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Most popular news items from KDnuggets News 04:18, Sep 28, 2004 were:

• (item1) Poll Results: Most Deployed Data Mining Techniques
• (item3) Inductis delivers "Most Accurate" Model in KDD Cup 2004 Competition using Salford Systems' TreeNet(tm) Software
• (item26) Data-mining start-up seeks deal
• (item20) Updated link for IBM Intelligent Miner, free for university scholars
• (item22) Decision Support Systems Spec. Issue: Data Mining for Financial Decision Making

Most popular news items from KDnuggets News 04:17, Sep 14, 2004 were:

• (item23) Mathematical breakthrough could crack cryptography
• (item2) New Poll: Data Mining Methods used in successfully deployed applications?
• (item3) What is interesting to readers? Most popular KDnuggets News items
• (item14) SVM-Light Versions for Learning Grammars, Sequence Alignments, and Multi-class Rules
• (item1) Poll Results: Ray Fair economic model is not a good way to predict US elections

Regarding the most popular item above -- I have talked with several mathematicians about the alleged "Mathematical breakthrough". Their consensus is that there is no need to worry -- even if Riemann Hypothesis was proven, which is very unlikely, cryptography will survive.