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The results for 2005 election for the new officers of the ACM SIGKDD (Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) have come in from ACM.

I am pleased to report that Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (that's me) will be the new chair, starting July 1, 2005.

The new Treasurer will be Usama Fayyad.

The new Directors will be

• Jiawei Han
• Raghu Ramakrishnan
• Sunita Sarawagi
• Robert Grossman
• David Jensen

Many thanks to the retiring SIGKDD Chair, Won Kim who guided SIGKDD to growth and put our annual conference on a solid fiscal footing for the past 7 years.

We will miss the sage advice and wisdom of retiring Treasurer Rakesh Agrawal, and retiring Directors Christos Faloutsos and Ramasamy Uthurusamy, and EC Advisor Daryl Pregibon, who participated in making SIGKDD a success from its founding in 1998.

As the new Chair, I look forward to more great ideas in data mining research, more successes of data mining applications, and more favorable perceptions of data mining in the press and the government, and hope to contribute to these developments.

Although only a small percentage of SIGKDD members vote, nevertheless this is the best democratic procedure we have. Here are the results:

For the Chair:

Candidate	Votes (%)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro	115 (77.7%)
William DuMouchel	30 (20.3%)
Other	3 (2%)

For Secretary/Treasurer:

Candidate	Votes (%)
Usama Fayyad	77 (52.0%)
Ramakrishnan Srikant	71 (48.0%)

For Board of Directors (top 5 elected)

Candidate	Votes (%)
Jiawei Han	107 ( 14.5%)
Raghu Ramakrishnan	103 ( 13.9%)
Sunita Sarawagi	100 ( 13.5%)
Robert Grossman	100 ( 13.5%)
David Jensen	99 ( 13.4%)
Ted E. Senator	89 ( 12.0%)