KDnuggets^TM News 05:09, May 3, 2005

1. Poll results: Internet Connection Speed
2. New Poll: Introductory / Textbooks for Data Mining
3. Limerick and Haiku contest on Data Mining Topics
4. KDD-Cup 2005 competition task and data ready
5. SIGKDD 2005 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due May 20
6. Business Intelligence Benchmark Study
7. Intercon says: VIOXX - a Victim, not a Villain
8. Google Zeitgeist - a snapshot of trends according to Google

9. May 17: Predictive Modeling Workshop by Equbits at BioITWorld, Boston
10. Data Mining: Levels I, II & III [ Wash DC: June | San Diego: Sept]

11. San Diego, CA: Research engineer at Kofax
12. Seattle, WA: Data Mining Professionals at a start-up
13. Boston, MA: Technical Director at KXEN, Inc.
14. Seattle, WA: Data Mining Guru at Hamlet, Inc

15. Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Data Mining - Free Self Study Tutorial
16. Gornik System 1.2beta - new data mining platform available for testing

17. PhD Studentship (Bioinformatics-related), at Robert Gordon U, Aberdeen, due May 16
18. Post-doc position at GREYC (U. Caen, France), due May 16

19. Data Mining for Genetic Treasure

20. Organon Licenses MetaCore(TM) From GeneGo
21. IBM rescues car parts from data dump
22. Video Data Turns Into Knowledge
23. Data Mining after Tsunami: consolidating duplicate missing person reports
24. SPSS Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for its Innovative Product Offerings in Predictive CRM Analytics
25. INFORSENSE ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT CORPORATE GROWTH IN FISCAL YEAR 2004/05
26. Southwest Airlines Deploys PolyVista Data Mining and Text Mining Software
27. SAP readies new business-monitoring programs
28. Caterpillar and StatSoft Announce the Release of the PROCEED Manufacturing Process Intelligence Software
29. Mining Reality - studying behaviour of cell phone users.
30. Metafy Anthracite for Web Mining on Mac OS
31. Data Mining and CRM at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby

32. Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High-D Data, UCLA, 11-29 July

33. ECML/PKDD-2005, due 16 May
    WebKDD 2005, due 17 May
    Workshop on Computational Methods in Bioinformatics, due 27 May
    KDD-05 Open Source Data Mining Worksho, due 8 Jun
    DM-SSP '05: Data Mining Standards, Services and Platforms, due 21 Jun
    ASIAN'05: Data Management on the Web, due 6 Jul
    

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