KDnuggets^TM News 05:n19, Oct 11, 2005

1. New: KDnuggets Forums (bulletin boards), for Beginners and Experts
2. Poll Results: Data Mining on Parallel Computers
3. New Poll: Using Real-time Data for Predicting Customer Behaviour
4. KDD Cup 2005 Winners
5. KDD 2005 Awards
6. World's largest data mining conference showcases new trends, theories, best practices
7. Pattern recognition competition
8. Problems seeing www.kdnuggets.com ?

9. Get started with Oracle Data Mining self-study tutorial (Free)

10. Auckland, New Zealand: Data miner at Datamine
11. Bloomington, IL, USA: Modeler / Statistician at State Farm
12. Dublin, Ireland: Data Mining Analyst at Idiro
13. Redmond, WA, USA: Multiple positions for Platform to help understand users intent at Microsoft
14. Dulles, VA, USA: System Architect at AOL
15. Bellevue, WA, USA: Statistician at Boeing, Phantom Works (PW)
16. Irvine, CA, USA: Lead Software Engineer/Lead Research Programmer at CalIT2: Calif. Inst. of Telecom. and Information Technology

17. 2006-2007 IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship

18. Eric King on How to Buy Data Mining

19. Apollo Data Technologies Develops Store Clustering and Predictive Models
20. PDF Registers Big Customer Win With Elpida
21. Cornell gets $2M NSF grant for social science research tools, using Web archive
22. DIAGNOS data mining used for Baggage Security Screening
23. Jim Hendler Joins Cerebra Technology Advisory Board
24. New Open Content Alliance (OCA) from Yahoo, Internet Archive, and others
25. The End Of the Size Wars?
26. Stephen Brobst on Data mining: An Algorithm as a Pickax

27. Book chapters: KDD Challenges and Realities with Real World Data, due Nov 1 (chapter proposals)
    PaRMa'06: Pattern Representation and Management, due Dec 13
    Call for Chapters: Data Mining Patterns: New Methods and Applications, due Dec 15
    ISI-2006: Intelligence and Security Informatics, due Jan 20
    

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