KDnuggets : News : 2001 : n10          ( Previous issue | Next issue )

KDnuggets NewsTM 01:10, May 15, 2001

News | Software | Courses | Jobs | Publications | Requests | Meetings | CFP | Quote
  • (item1) KDD Cup 2001 on genomics and drug design data, starting May 31
  • (item2) Concept-map of KDnuggets archive
  • (item3) KDnuggets Data Mining Headlines column
  • (item4) New Poll: Where did you apply data mining in the past year?
  • (item5) KDnuggets Poll Results: Readers Occupations
  • (item6) PKDD2001 Discovery challenge on Thrombosis Data
  • (item7) Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) Registry Goes Live
  • (item8) WhizBang Labs makes search engines that learn
Software (see also KDnuggets Software page)
  • (item9) Parallax: Automation breaks the barrier of Multidimensional Visualization
  • (item10) MnoGoSearch web search software now on Windows platform
  • (item11) SAS macro for producing interaction dummy variables
Courses (see also KDnuggets Courses page)
  • (item12) DiaMondSUG 2001 (SAS Data Mining Users Group), Chicago, IL, May 30 - June 1
  • (item13) Megaputer Data, Text, and Web Data Mining courses, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, New York
  • (item14) DATA MINING: LEVELS I & II [ Chicago | San Fran | Dallas | Orlando ]
  • (item15) NATO Advanced Studies Institute on AI and Bioinformatics, deadline July 25
Jobs (see also KDnuggets Jobs page)
  • (item16) Wilmington, DE: VP/FVP, Model Development & Statistical Analysis at Financial Services company, Scoring & Technology Division
  • (item17) Berwyn, PA: Manager, Statistical Modeling at @Risk Inc.
  • (item18) Southern California, near UCLA: Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at BioDiscovery
  • (item19) Fairfax, VA: Senior Data Miner/Task Lead at SRA International
Publications (see also KDnuggets Publications page)
  • (item20) Mining genetics publications to reveal new gene assocoations
  • (item21) Papers for Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM2001 available
  • (item22) New Book: Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach
Requests
  • (item23) Help finding data collection-related quotation
Meetings (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item24) Interface 2001, Costa Mesa, CA, Jun 13T-16, 2001
  • (item25) COLT/EUROCOLT 2001, Conference on Computational Learning, Amsterdam, Jul 16-19, 2001
  • (item26) SIGIR 2001 Workshop on Operational Text Classification Systems, New Orleans, LA, Sep 13, 2001
CFP (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item27) CIKM 2001 FINAL Call for Papers (and more), deadline May 21
  • (item28) ECML/PKDD Workshop: Semantic Web Mining, deadline June 8
  • (item29) IEEE Data Mining 2001, deadline June 15
  • (item30) Special Issue of the JMLR on "Machine Learning approaches to Shallow Parsing", deadline Sep 2
  • (item31) AI in Medicine Journal, special issue on Medical Data Mining, deadline Sep 2001
Quote

For the first time, the number of U.S. homes with access to the Internet declined -- by 0.3 percent, to 68.5 million connected households, mainly because of 20% decline in free ISP subscribers. Free access is no longer provided by AltaVista, Kmart, and others. The decline was partly offset by 18 percent growth in cable-modem subscribers
and 8 percent growth in paid dial-up subscribers.

Source: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082502,00.html

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