Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:37:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jiawei Han han@cs.sfu.ca Subject: 2nd Call for nominations: ACM-SIGKDD Innovations and Services Awards ACM-SIGKDD invites your nominations for two ACM-SIGKDD Awards: (1) SIGKDD Innovations Award, and (2) SIGKDD Services Award. Criteria of the awards: SIGKDD Innovations Award: One award each year ------------------------ One SIGKDD Innovations Award will be given to one individual or one group of collaborators who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field. SIGKDD Services Award: One award each year ---------------------- One SIGKDD Innovations Award will be given to one individual or one group who has performed significant services to the field, that include professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information to the field, education, research funding, etc. Nomination Process ------------------ Each nomination requires at least 5 people to co-sign (e-mail co-signing counts). Nominators should also submit materials by e-mails to support the nomination. Please send all materials by e-mails by July 15 to han@cs.sfu.ca. Deadlines for the award processing: ----------------------------------- 1. Deadline for nomination: July 15, 1999. 2. Recommendation to ACM SIGKDD executive committee: July 30, 1999. 3. Announcement of the Awards at ACM SIGKDD'99 conference: August 15-18, 1999. The Awards will be presented at the SIGKDD conference. -------------------------------- Exclusion: People on the ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee or on the ACM SIGKDD Executive Committee are not eligible to be nominated. Here are the lists of people who are not eligible for being nominated. ACM SIGKDD Executive Committee ------------------------------ Won Kim (Cyber Database Solutions) --- SIGKDD Chairman Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden) Usama Fayyad (Microsoft Research) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Knowledge Stream Partners) Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Labs) Padhraic Smyth (U. of California Irvine) ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee --------------------------- Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University, U.S.A.) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) --- Chairman David Hand (Imperial College, U.K.) Steve Marron (University of North Carolina, U.S.A.) Heikki Mannila (Microsoft Research, U.S.A.) Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University, Japan) Ross Quinlan (RuleQuest Research Pty Ltd, Australia)
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