KDnuggets^TM News 05:n23, Dec 6, 2005

1. Poll results: Text Mining Experience
2. New Poll: Topics and Webcasts
3. Most popular items from previois KDnuggets News (05:n22)
4. Data Mining and Humor?

5. Bayesian networks for Data Mining - BayesiaLab 4.0 is now available
6. Get started with Oracle Data Mining self-study tutorial (Free)
7. MDR: Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction software (open-source)
8. Weka4WS: A Grid-enabled Weka
9. New Release of Yale: Yet Another Learning Environment

10. KXEN Webinar, Dec 15: Strategic and operational decision making with Exploratory Modeling
11. U. of Louisville Offers Online Graduate Certificate in Data Mining
12. Free SAS "Getting Started Tutorial"

13. Malvern, PA: RESEARCH SCIENTIST (multiple open positions), Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Group at Siemens Medical Solutions
14. Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, UK: Adaptive Systems Scientist at Unilever
15. Glattbrugg, Switzerland: Data Miner mit Fokussierung auf Fraud Pr�vention at VISECA Card Services
16. Tampa, Florida: Marketing Modeling Manager at AAA Auto Club South
17. Redmond, WA: Researcher (146099, reputation system) at Microsoft Corporation - MSN Division
18. Redmond, WA: Researcher (133246, anti-spam, anti-fishing) at Microsoft Corporation - MSN Division
19. Boston, MA: SAS and SQL programmer/analyst at Data Miners, Inc.
20. New York, NY, USA: Vice President, Online Marketing Analytics at Poindexter Systems
21. McLean, VA: Artificial Intelligence Scientist at MITRE (US Citizens only)

22. Junior research position at the ML Group of ULB, Brussels, Belgium.
23. CS Faculty Position(s) at U of Vermont (Applications by 1/23/06)

24. Book - Advanced Methods for Knowledge Discovery from Complex Data
25. ComputerWorld on CAO (Chief Analytics Officer)
26. Global Nanotechnology Literature and Text Mining

27. Canadians Not Spending Enough On Business Intelligence, Data Mining
28. Probing Galaxies of Data for Nuggets
29. Illinois Police get Data-Mining Software from RiverGlass
30. Helping Nonprofits Find Hidden Gold
31. Health Discovery corp. gets SVM related patents
32. Itti and Baldi offer a mathematical theory of surpise at NIPS
33. Data-Mining Software Reveals Employee Fraud

34. IPAM workshop: Document Space, at UCLA, January 23-27, 2006

35. Int. Conf. on Granular Computing, due Dec 15
    Privacy-Enhanced Personalization Workshop, due Jan 6
    Feature Selection for Data Mining workshop, due Jan 9
    High Performance and Distributed Mining workshop, due Jan 9
    

"efficient and rapid attentional allocation is key to predation, escape, and mating -- in short, to survival." Laurent Itti and Pierre Baldi, NIPS 2005.