News:
(item1) Gregory Piatetsky, KDD-99 Student Travel Awards !
(item2) Maria Zemankova, President's National Medal of Science:
Nominations due 5/31/99
Requests:
(item3) William Kerney, voice access to data bases ?
Publications:
(item4) Hillol Kargupta, Paper on Distibuted Data Mining
(item5) Gregory Piatetsky, Interactive Week on Problems With Data Mining
(item6) Rajesh Parekh, Homepage for the International Grammatical
Inference Community
(item7) Krzysztof Cios, Medical Data Mining: Call for Chapters
Tools/Services:
(item8) Andrew Edmonds, Fuzzy Rule induction for databases from ActiveX
(item9) Arnaud Sahuguet, A Java toolkit for generation of Web wrappers
Positions:
(item10) S. Scully, Wakefield, MA: Director -
Quantitative Methods/Data Mining at Tessera
(item11) K. Burn-Thornton, UK, Plymouth: Research Studentship in Data Mining
Courses:
(item12) Kerry Martin, Courses on Data-Mining with Decision Trees --
Introduction to CART; Advanced CART Techniques
(item13) Gabor Por, New virtual classes at Knowledge Ecology University
Meetings:
(item14) Ruth Rowan, Successful Data Mining for Marketers,
11-12 March 1999, Washington DC
(item15) Trish Carbone, Federal Data Mining Symposium & Exposition '99
March 9-10, 1999, Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA
(item16) Dr Haihong, European Workshop on Data Mining and High
Performance Computing, 2nd March 1999, Belfast, Northern Ireland
(item17) Kathryn Blackmond, UAI '99 Second Call for Papers,
July 30-August 1, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
(item18) Erick Cantu, CFP: Evolutionary Computation and Parallel Processing
July 13, 1999, Orlando, FL
(item19) Carlos Domingo, CFP: ALT '99, Conference on Algorithmic Learning
Theory, Tokyo, Japan, December 6-8, 1999
(item20) George Bebis, CFP: IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Intelligence and
Systems, November 1-3, 1999, Washington, DC
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