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ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for the 2008 Innovation and Service Awards.
www.sigkdd.org/awards.php

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.sigkdd.org/awards.php

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

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.sigkdd.org/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, Won Kim, and Robert Grossman.

Nomination Process

Each nomination should be co-sponsored by at least 3 people. Nominations should include a 1-2 page statement justifying the nomination, and other supporting materials. All communications will be via email.
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, 2008 to Ramasamy Uthurusamy, samy at gm dot com.

The awards will be presented at the ACM SIGKDD-2008 Conference to be held at Las Vegas, NV, August 24-27, 2008. www.sigkdd.org/kdd/2008/

2008 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors, USA), Chair
Usama M. Fayyad (Yahoo!, USA)
Robert Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Rajeev Motwani (Stanford University, USA)
Ramakrishnan Srikant (Google, USA)
Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Xindong Wu (University of Vermont, USA)