News

Summary: On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are soliciting
corporate sponsors for KDD-2000.  Listed below
are the general sponsorship levels available.

                           KDD-2000:
           The Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference
             on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

              August 20-23, 2000, Boston, MA, USA

http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000


KDD-2000 Sponsorship Chair:  Robert Grossman, Magnify,
(rlg@magnify.com)


KDD-2000 is the leading conference of the data mining
community, bringing together more than 800 data mining
professionals from academia and industry (our participation
rates are 60 percent industry and 40 percent academia).  The
conference will also feature an Industrial track, featuring
best of breed industrial applications of data mining.  For
more information on KDD-2000, please refer to
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2000.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are soliciting
corporate sponsors for KDD-2000.  Listed below
are the general sponsorship levels available:

Category of Sponsorship                 Contribution
--------------------------              -----------------
Sponsor                                 $1,000
Contributor                             $2,500
Corporate Contributor                   $5,000
Principal Corporate Contributor        $10,000 and above

Here is a summary of the various sponsorship levels:


All:  (at least $1000)
     Company or organization information included in Sponsor's Book
     Acknowledgement in Conference Proceedings or Program
     Acknowledgement in the letter to supported students

Contributor ($2500):
     Acknowledgment and Signage for sponsoring Coffee Breaks -
          "Coffee Break Sponsored by"
     Links to Sponsor in the KDD-2000 Website

Corporate Contributor ($5000):
     Acknowledgment and Signage for sponsoring any event of
          sponsor's choosing (on a first come, first served basis),
          except Reception or Lunches. This includes breaks
          (including continental breakfast), proceedings, tutorial
          notes, student scholarships, and best paper awards.
     Company or organizational information included in
          registration packet
     Links to Sponsor in the KDD-2000 Website
     Logos on the back cover of Sponsors Book
     1 Free conference Registration
     Free Exhibit Space

Principal Corporate Contributor ($10,000):
     Acknowledgment and Signage for sponsoring any event of
          sponsor's choosing (on a first come, first served basis),
          including Reception, Luncheons, etc.
     Company or organizational information included in registration
          packet
     Links to Sponsor in the KDD-2000 Website
     Logos on the back cover of Sponsor's Book or Proceedings
     2 Free conference Registrations
     Free Exhibit Space


To become a sponsor or for additional information, please send
email to rlg@magnify.com or phone 312 214 1420.