News:
(item1) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Industry News: DB2 is {#1;}
Compression Sciences renamed K.wiz Solutions;
Alterian adds CHAID to its suite.
(item2) Berka Petr, PKDD99 Discovery Challenge
(item3) Thomas Reinartz, New CRISP-DM Web Page: http://www.crisp-dm.org
Requests:
(item4) bjorn.mantels, Size of Data Mining Market ?
(item5) Eugenio Suarez, Fraud Detection in Health Care Plans ?
Publications:
(item6) Herb Edelstein, Data Mining report
(item7) Tjen-Sien Lim, bibliography on tree-structured methods
(item8) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, InformationWeek on XML
(item9) KnowledgeNET, ANGOSS KnowledgeStudio news
Positions:
(item10) John O. Everett, Palo Alto, CA: Xerox Parc: Researchers in Scientific and Engineering Reasoning
(item11) Michael J Rogers, Princeton, NJ: Knowledge Specialist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Research
(item12) Ratna Singh, Silicon Valley, CA: Decision Support Practice Area Head at TrueGenesis
(item13) Mark Girolami, PhD Studentship, U. of Paisley, UK
(item14) Donal Lyons, Data Mining Position in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Tools/Services:
(item15) Cynthia Mylton, StockWizard.Com - search engine for investors
Courses:
(item16) Sue Kulesher, John Elder to teach Data Mining, San Diego, June 24-25, 1999
(item17) Kerry Martin, Applied Data Mining with CART Decision, May & June 1999
(item18) Herb Edelstein, How to Successfully Mine Data: A Practical Two-day
Course for Managers, Marketers, and Analysts,
Washington, DCJune 7 and 8, 1999
Meetings:
(item19) Ken Berk, Interface 99
Schaumburg, Illinois, June 9-12, 1999
(item20) Vasilis Megalooikonomou, ISAS'99 - Call for papers: Data Mining in Medical Databases
Orlando, Florida, USA, July 30 to August 3, 1999.
(item21) Donal Lyons, Data Mining seminar on Monday 24th May 1999 in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
(item22) George Paliouras, ACAI99: Registration and Further Travel Grants!
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