KDnuggets^TM News 03:14, Aug 7, 2003

• (item1) Poll Results: Data miners against total funding cut off for TIA
• (item2) New Poll: What is your industry ?
• (item3) Senate cuts off TIA funding; new proposal will effectively "ban" Federal data mining
• (item4) KDD 2003: 9th ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, D.C., Aug 24-27

• (item5) DATA MINING: LEVELS I, II & III [ San Diego: Sep | Las Vegas: Dec ]

• (item6) San Diego, CA: Director of Modeling and Simulation at Meriture, Inc.
• (item7) Lanham, MD: Senior Statistical Analyst/Team Lead at Merkle Direct Marketing

• (item8) NeuralWorks Predict again named a finalist in Scientific Computing Magazines Readers Choice Awards
• (item9) Salford Sweeps Awards in Duke/NCR Teradata Churn Modeling Tournament.

• (item10) Analysis of recent changes in the BI marketplace

• (item11) Crystal Decisions now part of Business Objects
• (item12) Fuel Data Strategies selects KXEN to deliver improved customer insight
• (item13) IDC says Siebel leads in Analytics Market
• (item14) Amazon Sued for Patent Infringement over Personalization
• (item15) Active Web Services and SPSS Partner for Warranty and Claims Management
• (item16) CAPPS II Surveillance Proposal Expanded
• (item17) Relationship data mining or Six Degrees of Exploitation?

• (item18) Save $200 off M2003 conference pricing; M2003: Las Vegas, Oct 13-14
• (item19) BIOKDD and WEBKDD workshops: Aug 27
  ECML/PKDD-2003, Sep 22-26
  ISMIS-03, Oct 28-31

• (item20) DMSEC'03, Aug 22
  PPDM, Aug 29
  Spec. Issues, Sep 1
  IPMU-04, Oct 12
  FLAIRS 2004, Oct 24
  KES-04, Dec 1
  PAKDD'04, Dec 9

If the bill passes, no government employee or computer could sift through federal or commercial databases to search for individuals who fit a profile. Wired News, July 29, description of Sen. Wyden Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act.