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From: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Date: June 12, 2006
Subject: 2006 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due June 30

ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards.

SIGKDD Innovation Award

One SIGKDD Innovation Award will be given to one individual or one group of collaborators who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field.

The previous SIGKDD Innovation Award winners were winners were Rakesh Agrawal, Jerome Friedman, Heikki Mannila, Jiawei Han, and Leo Breiman.

SIGKDD Service Award

One SIGKDD Service Award will be given to one individual or one group who has performed significant service to the field, that include professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information to the field, education, research funding, etc.

The previous SIGKDD Service Award winners were Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy (Sam) Uthurusamy, Usama Fayyad, Xindong Wu, and the Weka team lead by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank.

Nomination Process

Each nomination should be co-sponsored by at least 3 people. Email co-sponsorship is accepted. Nominations should include a 1-2 page word statement to justify the nomination, and other supporting materials.

At most one award will be given each year in each category.

Nominations will be valid for a period of 3 years.

Deadline for nominations

Please send all nomination materials by June 30, 2006 to Ramasamy (Sam) Uthurusamy, samy at gm dot com.

The awards will be presented at ACM SIGKDD-2006 conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug 20-23, 2006.

ACM SIGKDD 2006 Awards Committee

  • Ramasamy Uthurusamy (GM, USA), Chair
  • Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft, USA)
  • Eibe Frank (U. of Waikato, New Zealand)
  • Jerome Friedman (Stanford, USA)
  • Jiawei Han (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Geoff Webb (Monash U., Australia)
  • Ian H. Witten (U. of Waikato, New Zealand)
  • Xindong Wu (U. Vermont, USA)
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