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And the winner is...

This year's KDD Cup competition was a difficult contest involving data mining for medical diagnosis. The problems were particularly challenging because they were characterized by a number of unusual and strenuous conditions:

• small training and test data
• highly nonlinear evaluation criteria
• multiple instance learning

The competition consisted of three tasks, each of which is scored separately. In addition, we identified the strongest student submission in each category. The winners of the 2006 KDD Cup competition are:

Task 1:
Winner: Chris Volinsky -- AT&T Research
Runners-up:

• Dmitriy Fradkin (Rutgers)
• Zsolt Kardkovacs (Budapest University of Technology)

• Best student entry: Karthik Kumara (Indian Institute of Science)
  Team members: Dr Chiranjib Bhatacharyya, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Parsana Mehulkumar Bhikhalal, Babaria Rashmin Nandla, Saketha Nath, J. R Sriraghavendra

• Ruixiang Sun -- ICTCAS
• Zhang Cas -- IA, PKU
• Dmitriy Fradkin -- Rutgers

• Best student entry: Zhang Cas -- IA, PKU

• (team): Tarun Agarwal -- Strand Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.
  Team members: Nimisha Gupta, Anand Janakiraman, and Anand Chitipothu

Again, I would like to thank all of the competitors for a job well done!

For more information, see www.cs.unm.edu/kdd_cup_2006