KDnuggets^TM News 05:n15, Aug 09, 2005

1. Poll Results: Successful data mining applications
2. New Poll: Importance of Data Mining in Your Company / Organization
3. KDD-2005, Premier Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Conf., Chicago, Aug 21-24

4. KXEN Webcast: Will automated predictive modeling be your competitive edge?
5. Functional Data Analysis Web cast, Aug 16, 8 am PT
6. Author Ron Cody offers a Data Cleaning course
7. SAS Business Knowledge Series program offers Credit Scoring course
8. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ San Diego: Sept | Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]
9. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Charlottesville, VA, Sep 19-20
10. Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining II: tools for tall and wide data
11. Data Mining Graduate Certificate at NJIT - on-campus or Online

12. Champaign, IL: Senior Software Developer at RiverGlass
13. Champaign, IL: Research Engineer at RiverGlass
14. Peoria, Illinois: Statistician at Akoya
15. Chicago, IL: Product Manager-Predictive Enterprise Service at SPSS
16. Seattle, WA: Amazon.com hiring at KDD-05 (Chicago) and ICML-05 (Bonn)

17. Equbits Foresight Standard Edition - SVM based, automated, easy to use

18. Amsterdam: Postdoc position in Proteomic Biomarker Detection at Vrije Universiteit

19. Book Announcement: Introduction to Data Mining, Tan, Steinbach, Kumar

20. CNO Directs Navy To Develop Capabilities To Fight Global War On Terror
21. Usama Fayyad Chosen as 2005 AAAI Fellow
22. How can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory?
23. Bush Administration Resists Data Mining Oversight
24. How the uncanny gets into marketing
25. Insightful's Dr. Michael O'Connell - One Of The Most Inspiring People In The Life Sciences Industry
26. SSA Global buys into CRM with Epiphany acquisition
27. Yahoo's new search master
28. Unstructured Data analysis and Data Mining Applications
29. IBM to Open Source Technology for Analysis of Unstructured Information
30. Strong privacy laws may explain data security in Europe

31. 2005 Insightful User Conference, Princeton, NJ, 26-27 Oct 2005
32. Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Czech Republic, 7-9 Sep 2005
    ECML/PKDD-2005, Porto, Portugal, 3-7 Oct 2005
    
33. Interface 2006: Massive Data Sets and Streams, May 24-27, 2006, Pasadena, CA

34. Intelligent User Interfaces, due Aug 15
    Visual Data Mining Spec. Issue, due Sep 1
    ICDM Workshop: Data Mining and the Grid, due Sep 1
    ACM SAC 2006, Data Streams Track, due Sep 3
    EGC-2006: Knowledge Extraction And Management, due Sep 15
    ICDM 2005 Workshop Temporal Data Mining, due Sep 15
      (also, DMKD spec. issue on Temporal Data Mining, due Jan 25)
    Link Mining Spec. Issue, due Oct 2
    SIAM Data Mining, due Oct 3
    Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (WISI'06), due Nov 15
    

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