KDnuggets : News : 2001 : n09          ( Previous issue | Next issue )

KDnuggets NewsTM 01:09, May 1, 2001

News | Software | Courses | Jobs | Publications | Briefs | CFP | Quote
  • (item1) Informix sells database business to IBM for $1 billion
  • (item2) New Poll: What is your occupation?
  • (item3) Who cares about privacy?
  • (item4) New Consumer Privacy Protections starting July 1
  • (item5) KDD-2001 Data Mining Conference, San Francisco, 26-29 Aug 2001
  • (item6) NSF/NASA/USGS Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics: Proposals due 7/11/01
Software (see also KDnuggets Software page)
  • (item7) Optimal Binning Macro in SAS Base
  • (item8) FOCI - A personalized web intelligence system
  • (item9) StockMiner: software for stock market data mining
Courses (see also KDnuggets Courses page)
  • (item10) Salford Hands-on data mining classes in Boston, May 15-18
  • (item11) Data Mining/Machine Learning Summer School At CMU, June 4-8.
  • (item12) NeuralWare's Advanced Neural Computing, Pittsburgh, June 4-7
  • (item13) Michael Berry, CRM Through Data Mining, June 6-8, Boston, MA [Only 13 seats left!]
  • (item14) SAS M2001 Data Mining Technology Conference, Cary, NC, Oct 2-3, 2001
Jobs (see also KDnuggets Jobs page)
  • (item15) Plymouth, MN, USA: Marketing Analyst at Carlson Marketing Group
  • (item16) Parsippany, NJ, USA: Manager, Database Marketing at RCI Database Marketing
  • (item17) Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Machine Learning Applications at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
  • (item18) Vienna, Austria: Bioinformatics / Data Mining Scientists (Heads of Laboratory) at Novartis Forschungsinstitut
Publications (see also KDnuggets Publications page)
  • (item19) Special issue on connectionist models for learning in structured domains
  • (item20) IDC Projects a Boom Market for Analytical Applications
  • (item21) A Smorgasbord of Opportunities Awaits Marketers, but Hold the Dessert
Briefs
  • (item22) DigiMine Buys CoRelation
  • (item23) SingTel chooses SLP InfoWare's predictive-CRM solution
  • (item24) Cygron Launches Reseller Promotion
  • (item25) FTC sues 3 data collection firms for improperly obtaining financial information
  • (item26) Oracle Adds Data Mining and OLAP Functionality In the Oracle9i
  • (item27) Biopharmaceutical data analysis apps to grow to $20 million by 2008
  • (item28) E.piphany Reports First-Quarter Net Loss of $295M
  • (item29) Siebel Ignores Rumors, Surges Ahead
  • (item30) YourCompass Announces Server-Installed, Java 2-compliant Offering
  • (item31) eSystems Data Mining and access for high-performance DVD-RAM/R Libraries
  • (item32) Net Perceptions Q1 2001 revenue $3.3 M, loss of $11.9 M
  • (item33) SPSS Slashes Q1 Outlook, Jobs
  • (item34) CRM and Supply-Chain Management integration at SAP, PeopleSoft, and IBM
CFP (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item35) ICCS2001 workshop on Concept Lattice for KDD, deadline May 8
  • (item36) Multimedia Data Mining at KDD2001, deadline May 15
  • (item37) ECML/PKDD Wrkshp: Data Mining for Marketing Applications, deadline June 8
  • (item38) ECML/PKDD01 Wrkshp: Integrating DM, DSS and Meta-learning, deadline June 8
  • (item39) Visual Data Mining at ECML/PKDD2001, deadline June 8
  • (item40) NIPS*2001, deadline June 20
  • (item41) IEEE Data Mining 2001: Call for Tutorials, deadline June 30
Quote

Some say that internet has reached a saturation point.
For comparison, In 1919 a Forbes magazine cover pondered
whether automobiles had reached a saturation point.
(thanks to http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2001-3/0418w.html#item6)

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