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From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Date: Apr 22, 2002
Subject: Nominate the most innovative and deserving data miners for ACM SIGKDD 2002 Innovation and Services Awards, deadline May 1, 2002

Who will it be?

Nominate your most innovative data mining friends for ACM SIGKDD 2002 Innovation award, and those who have done the most for the community for the ACM SIGKDD 2002 Service award. The data mining community has many deserving candidates, so please send your nominations to awards . See details below.

ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for
1. SIGKDD Innovation Award, and
2. SIGKDD Services Award.

SIGKDD Innovation Award

One SIGKDD Innovation 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 that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field.

Rakesh Agrawal was the winner of SIGKDD Innovation Award in 2000.

SIGKDD Services Award

One SIGKDD Services 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.

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro was the winner of SIGKDD Services Award in 2000.

Nomination Process

Each nomination should be co-sponsored by at least 3 people. Email co-sponsorship is accepted. Nominations should include a 200-500 word statement to justify the nomination, and other supporting materials.

At most one award will be given each year in each category.

Please send all materials by email by May 1, 2002 to Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, awards.

Important dates:

  1. Deadline for nominations: May 1, 2002.
  2. Recommendation to ACM SIGKDD Chair: May 31, 2002.
  3. Announcement of the Awards at ACM SIGKDD-2002 conference: July 26, 2002.
Exclusion: People on the ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee or SIGKDD Chairman Won Kim are not eligible to be nominated.

ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee

  • Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets), Chair
  • Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
  • Daryl Pregibon (AT&T)
  • Jiawei Han (U. Illinois Urbana Champaign)
  • Foster Provost (New York University)
  • Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University)
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