KDnuggets^TM News 06:n04, Feb 28, 2006

1. Poll results: Is privacy more important than child protection?
2. New Poll: Data Miners Income/Status by Region
3. Machine Learning (Brain data) Competition: $10,000 first prize
4. Free Access to Data Mining Research, Case Studies, and Articles
5. An Appreciation of Leo Breiman (1928-2005)

6. Salford Systems Releases TreeNet(tm) 2.0, No Cost 30-day Download Available
7. Oracle Data Mining (ODM) - Free self-study tutorial

8. InforSense Webcast, Mar 2: Turning Information Assets into Actionable Insights
9. SPSS Data Mining and Predictive Modeling workshops
10. Industry expert Olivia Rud delivers Data Mining Cookbook
11. SAS debuts new Multilevel Modeling course

12. Schaumburg, IL: Sr. Statistical Analyst at Experian
13. Rockville, MD: Specialist, KDD at NASD
14. Princeton, NJ: Research Scientist at Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.
15. USA: Sales (related to data mining and AI) at Raptor International, Inc
16. New York, NY: Quant/Statistical position to assist Sr. Trader/Researcher at New York City hedge fund
17. Nationwide: Marketing and Sales Analytics - SAS - All levels at Analytic Recruiting
18. Philadelphia suburban, PA: Research Scientist at NCO Group, Inc.
19. Palo Alto, CA: Research scientist at Hewlett Packard Research Labs
20. Hartford, CT: Research and Modeling Opportunities at St. Paul Travelers
21. Kirkland, WA: Senior Scientist - Machine Learning, Data-Mining And Statistics at Inrix

22. Research internship at HP Labs on data mining and personalization

23. New Book: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 2nd Ed., by Han & Kamber
24. New Book: Machine Learning and Data Mining for Computer Security
25. US plans massive data sweep
26. ICDM-05 (IEEE International Conf. on Data Mining) report
27. Enhancing Predictive Analytics in the Enterprise Through Location Intelligence
28. Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data
29. Tilmann Bruckhaus on the "The Accuracy Paradox"

30. Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use
31. Analytics a slam-dunk for Celtics
32. Insightful announces Insightful Miner Trial CD
33. Insightful to develop advanced bioinformatics software for cancer prevention research
34. New Anthracite 1.4 Release Gives Mac Intel Users SOAP and XPath Power
35. Anderson Analytics, Data Mining for Diamonds
36. Majestic Research finds favor with hedge funds
37. SPSS Reports Record Revenues
38. CRS on data mining and homeland securuty
39. Report: Homeland security data mining generates concern
40. Leading Danish Insurer Improves Claim Handling & Customer Service with SPSS Predictive Analytics
41. Roche To Pilot Linguamatics For Molecular Genomics Research
42. Advanced Data Mining International wins contract for homeland security research

43. Schedule and Conference Highlights for Data Mining Conference, March 29-31, San Diego, CA
44. What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI Research and Applications, Mar 27-29
    European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), Apr 10-13
    FLAIRS 2006, May 11-13

45. KDD-06, due Mar 3
    KDD-06 Panels, Workshops, Tutorial Proposals, due Mar 10
    Machine Learning for Computer Security, due Mar 15
    Information Visualization 2006, due Mar 21
    IEEE VAST 2006, due Mar 21 (abstracts)
    Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS), due Mar 23
    Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006), due Apr 1
    Intelligent Information Access (IIIA-2006), due Apr 15
    Text-Based Information Retrieval (TIR-06) workshop, due Apr 15
    

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