KDnuggets^TM News 09:n11, Jun 9, 2009

1. Text analytics New and Noteworthy -- May-June, 2009
2. Sixth Annual University Of California Data Mining Contest
3. SIGKDD 2009 Innovation Award Winner
4. SIGKDD 2009 Service Award Winner
5. Analytic / Data Mining Blog Highlights
6. KDD-09 Best Paper Awards
7. Rajeev Motwani, beloved in high tech world - including Google - dead at 47
8. KDD-09: Nights and Weekend Highlights
9. Most popular, "Hot", and "Cold" Datasets at KDnuggets
10. Top items from KDnuggets News 09:n10, May 26

11. Bayes Server 2.2 released - Bayesian network software for .NET (C#, VB.NET, C++.NET, and more)
12. How to Score 300,000,000 Customer Records for only $3
13. Tune into the Voice of Your Customer with Voice Mining
14. New Software at KDnuggets

15. Jun 16 Webinar: Data Mining: Failure to Launch
16. Jun 18 Webcast: How to get guaranteed uplift with Text Analytics

17. Methodological Trainings in Statistical Data Mining in Switzerland

18. Toronto, Canada: Data Mining Analyst at Waterfront International
19. Chicago, IL: Software Support Specialist at SPSS
20. New York, NY: Senior Manager- Strategic Analytics at Sirius Satellite Radio

21. PhD and PostDoc in ML for Natural Language Processing, Saarland U., Germany

22. Swedish Ph.D. develops better and faster search engine algorithm
23. Sandy Pentland on Reality Mining: Phoning In the Data

24. Data Mining among Top 10 Careers for Graduates
25. Pervasive Software Announces Breakthrough Pervasive DataRush Knowledge Discovery Platform
26. Teragram Unveils Sentiment Analysis Manager At Text Analytics Summit
27. Text analytics market small but growing amid recession, according to IDC
28. Cloud Computing for Predictive Analytics and Visualization
29. Arabic social site D1G Appoints Usama Fayyad As Executive Chairman
30. Procter & Gamble Uses SPSS Predictive Analytics Software for Product and Branding Research

31. ICNC 2009 - International Conference on Neural Computation, due Jun 16
    PAN-09: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, due Jul 1
    

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damn difficult.
Erin McKean, speech at TED

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