KDnuggets^TM News 05:n24, Dec 21, 2005

1. Poll Results: Interesting Webcast Topics
2. New Poll: Conferences you plan to attend in 2006?
3. ICDM '05: 10 Challenging Problems in Data Mining Research
4. Word Challenge: Data Mining Sniglets, or What is Data Squality?
5. Most Popular Items from KDnuggets News 05:n23

6. Java Data Mining Expert Group Submits Early Draft of Version 2 (JSR-247)
7. Insightful Corporation Releases Insightful Miner 7
8. The Alchemy system for statistical relational AI
9. ETL: Kettle 2.2 open source
10. IlliMine: The Initial Release of the Illinois Data Mining System Package
11. Software Release: Data Mining Template Library (DMTL)

12. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Orlando: Jan | Las Vegas: Apr ]
13. Seminar: Addressing Click Fraud, Seattle, WA, Feb 24

14. Watertown, MA: Scientist / Data Miner at Isobar Global
15. Santa Monica, CA, USA: Marketing Optimization & Segmentation Manager at LowerMyBills.com
16. United States: Analytical Consultant 2 (or higher) - 05001929 at SAS
17. Seattle, WA: Software engineer at U. of Washington
18. Chicago, IL: Director, Analytical Solutions at comScore Networks

19. Mountain View, CA: Senior Scientist at RIACS (US Citizenship req.)

20. Book announcement - privacy-preserving data mining
21. New book announcement: Implementing Data Mining Algorithms in Microsoft SQL Server(TM)

22. Looking for inexpensive scoring software that can use XML-based model

23. SNARFing your way through e-mail
24. Basis Technology To Provide Software For Chinese And Japanese Versions Of MSN Search
25. Data mining solution to analyze Supermarket data in Poland
26. VSoft offers Check Data Mining
27. Zhejiang Telecom Data Mining in China
28. Alexa Web Search Platform
29. Yahoo acquires social-bookmarking site Del.icio.us
30. InforSense Expands Ongoing Collaboration with AstraZeneca
31. Yahoo opens New York research center, hires Ron Brachman
32. Google to Build Research Unit in Pittsburgh, PA
33. Anderson Analytics Brings Cutting-Edge Analytic Technologies to Market Research

34. Salford Data Mining Conference Program, 29-31 March 2006, San Diego

35. CFP: ACM TKDD: Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
36. Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM 2006), due Jan 6
    Feature Selection for Data Mining, due Jan 9
    IFIP AI 2006, due Jan 15
    Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering, due Jan 15
    Industrial Conf. on Data Mining, Leipzig, due Jan 22
    Atlantic Web Intelligence, due Feb 5
    DMIN-2006 Int. Conf. on Data Mining at WORLDCOMP'06, due Feb 20
    Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning, due Mar 3
    KDD-06, due Mar 3 (abstracts)
    KDD-06 Tutorial Proposals, due Mar 7
    Bioenergetics, the Immune System, and Bioinformatics, due Mar 22
    CEAS 2006: Email And Anti-Spam, due Mar 23
    

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