News: (item1) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Industry Briefs: {Angoss;} Gentia & Flexi (item2) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Amazon allows opt-out from Purchase Circles policy (item3) Foster Provost, Free internet via data mining ? Publications: (item4) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Estimating Campaign Benefits and Modeling Lift (item5) Patrick Naim, New book in French about Bayesian Networks (item6) Steve Minton, recent JAIR article, {Identifying Mislabeled Training Data} Jobs: (item7) David Hartsough, Medford, MA: Scientific Applications Programmers at ArQule Inc. (item8) Philip Spellman, Clinton, MD: 2 data mining positions at Kajax Engineering (item9) Oliver Brock, Hayward, CA: Data Mining and Warehousing at AllAdvantage.com (item10) Laura Hoge, Columbia, SC: 4 Modeling and Reporting Positions at Fleet Mortgage Group Tools/Services: (item11) Rob Wise, Dowser: a basic beta Data mining program Courses: (item12) Dawn Swope, Last Call: M99 -- SAS Data Mining Technology Conference SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, September 13-17, 1999 Calls for Papers: (item13) Paul Bradley, KDD-2000 CFP: Aug 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA (item14) Foster John Provost, CFP: E-commerce and Data Mining (item15) IAT99 Conference, 2nd CFP: Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce Meetings: (item16) Alvis Brazma, data mining for bioinformatics 10 - 12 November 1999, Cambridge, UK (item17) Zhong, Call for Participation (RSFDGrC'99) Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan, November 9-11, 1999
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