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The KDD-Cup 2004 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Competition is being held in conjunction with the Tenth Annual ACM SIGKDD Conference that will take place this year on August 22 through 25 in Seattle, Washington.

This year there are two challenge tasks, one in protein matching and one in high-energy particle physics. The problems were chosen in order to be of interest to both academia and industry. Students are particularly encouraged to participate.

This year's performance criteria include Accuracy, Squared Error, Cross Entropy, and ROC Area. The specific tasks, datasets, and code for computing the performance criteria became available April 28, 2004 at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004/cup.html.

Registration will remain open during the first half of the summer. Submissions are due by July 14, 2004.

We look forward to an interesting competition and encourage your participation.

Rich Caruana & Thorsten Joachims
KDD-Cup 2004 Co-Chairs