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Chemnitz, April 17, 2003. On April 15, 2003 the DATA MINING CUP 2003 Contest, initiated in Chemnitz (Saxonia, Germany), has started with an amazing high number of participants. Thus, it has surpassed itself compared with the contest of the last year.

This year, as every year, the prudsys AG, the university of Chemnitz and the KDNet call up students from all over the world to compete in solving a Data Mining task. On April 15, 2003 the starting signal was given and up to now more than 400 participants of 136 universities from 34 countries have registered for participation. By the May 14, 2003 people who are interested in a participation can still register online.

"Our primary objective was to keep the high number of participants on the same level as last year. We are very pleased that one month before the registration period ends the number of participants has exceeded this number. This shows the increasing interest in Data Mining worldwide." says Sandra H�mke, the chief organizer from prudsys.

This year, the organizers have worked out a task of eminent practical importance. The task of the contest is to identify spam-mails by Data Mining before they reach the user's mailbox.

The prizes will be handed over during the DMC User Event Days that will take place on June 18-20, 2003 in Chemnitz (Germany), and which have grown over the last years into the most important conference of Data Mining in Germany.

Further information you will find here:

http://www.data-mining-cup.com