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2007 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards

Nominations due June 30, 2007

ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for the 2007 Innovation and Service Awards.

ACM 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.
www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/awards.php

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

ACM 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.
www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/awards.php

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

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 statement justifying 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 email all nomination materials by June 30, 2007 to Ramasamy Uthurusamy, samy at gm dot com.

The awards will be presented at the ACM SIGKDD-2007 Conference to be held at San Jose, California, August 12-16, 2007. www.kdd2007.com

2007 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee

• Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors, USA), Chair
• Jerome Friedman (Stanford U., USA)
• Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Won Kim (SungKyunKwan University, S. Korea)
• Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Ramakrishnan Srikant (Google, USA)
• Geoff Webb (Monash University, Australia)
• Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
• Xindong Wu (University of Vermont)