KDnuggets^TM News 06:n16, Aug 29, 2006

1. Poll Results: Can Computers Make Better Decisions?
2. New Poll: Is it OK to mine recently released AOL Search Strings?
3. Search blunder sees AOL's CTO sacrificed
4. Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n15, Aug 7
6. KDD Cup 2006 results

7. New release of the free open-source learning environment YALE
8. Microsoft Adlab Demo - Demographics Prediction
9. KNIME - Free Data Mining Platform For Research And Teaching

10. Tools for Discovering Patterns in Data, Sep 18-19, Charlottesville, VA
11. Machine Learning over Text & Images Autumn School, Sep 26-27, Pittsburgh
12. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ San Diego: Sept | Las Vegas: Dec ]
13. Predictive Analytics for Business and Marketing, Prediction Impact, Oct, San Francisco
14. SAS Analytics Training: Choose 3 courses for significant savings and ...

15. San Diego, CA: Data Analytics Specialist at DataQuick Information Systems
16. Des Moines, IA, USA: Specialist, Statistical Analysis at Nationwide Insurance
17. Redmond, WA: Lead Software Design Engineer-Windows Live AdCenter at Microsoft
18. Redmond, WA: Software Developers at Microsoft, Ad Center - Global Business Intelligence Team
19. New York, NY: Vice President/Associate Director, Digital (Media and Marketing) Analytics and Technology Leader - Strategy & Enablement at Digitas
20. New York, NY: Manager, Online (Web) Measurement - Strategy & Analysis at Digitas
21. New York, NY or Boston, MA: Analyst - Strategy & Analysis at Digitas
22. San Jose, CA: Paid Search, Associate Data Manager at eBay
23. San Jose, CA: Associate Data Manager, Paid Search Analytics at eBay
24. San Jose, CA: Manager of Paid Search Analytics at eBay
25. San Jose, CA: Paid Search Analytics Manager at eBay

26. New book from WIT: Data Mining VII: Data, Text and Web Mining and Their Business Applications
27. Data miners at UCI moving beyond Google
28. Anthrax Research Literature Assessment Report

29. AOL apologizes for release of user search data
30. Pitt Awarded $2.4 Million by U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Develop Computing Technology
31. HELP invest RM3m in data mining centre in Malaysia
32. Umbria Introduces Blog Data Mining Service
33. DHS to field additional data mining tools in wake of bomb plot
34. Gene-Expression Profiling for Predicting Cancer Prognosis
35. Federal judge throws out NSA's warrantless wiretaps, but not NSA data mining
36. AOL Chief Technology Officer Resigns: Sources
37. Halsey Buys Web Analytics Firm ClickTracks
38. Data mining, for ATM gold
39. Oracle Acquires Sigma Dynamics
40. The Data War: Google, Yahoo, and MSN
41. Data mining used to find new materials
42. K-12 School Districts Deploying Predictive Analytics Software to Boost Student Performance

43. The Royal Statistical Society, Oct 6, London
    KDML-2006: Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and ML, Oct 9-13, Hildesheim, Germany
    
44. Act Now to Save $200 on SAS' 9th Annual Data Mining Conference

45. SAC-2007 Data Streams Track, due Sep 8
    AIDM06: Integrating AI and Data Mining at Australian AI 2006, due Sep 8
    Visual Analytics, special issue, due Sep 17
    SDM'07: SIAM Int. Conf. on Data Mining, due Oct 6
    Utility-Based Data Mining (DMKD Spec. Issue), due Oct 17
    Special Track on Data Mining, FLAIRS-2007, due Nov 20
    Computational Methods of Feature Selection, due Dec 31

"Everybody understood that if the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed."

Grigory Perelman explanation of why he declined to accept a Fields Medal for his recently confirmed proof of Poincare Conjecture.