KDnuggets^TM News 08:n12, Jun 24, 2008

1. Poll Results: Largest DB data mined, by region
2. New Poll: Can a Machine Learning Algorithm ever be fully trusted?
3. Usama Fayyad on his resignation from Yahoo and future plans
4. 2008 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions and Outstanding Service Awards, nominations due Aug 15
5. KDD-08 accepted papers, tutorials and panel, Aug 24-27, Las Vegas
6. TIBCO buys Data Mining Company Insightful for $25 Million
7. Commentary on Insightful acquisition: forest fire effect

8. Miner3D 7.1: Raising the bar for Visual OLAP
9. Explorative data mining powered by Viscovery� for SPSS� users
10. Information Builders adds Rattle (RStat) for Predictive Analytics

11. July 10 Webinar: Applications of Multiple Outcome Optimization in Predictive Modeling

12. Achieve your goals with data mining courses from SAS

13. Stamford, CT: Quantitative Trading and Operations at LYZ Capital Advisors LLC
14. Detroit, MI: Assoc Dir, Marketing Strategy & Analysis US at Digitas
15. Redmond, WA: Clickfraud Data Miner, at Microsoft adCenter
16. Appleton, or Middleton (Madison Metro), WI: Data Mining Analyst at West Business Services
17. anywhere in the US: Analytic Consultant - CHQ-0152047 at IBM
18. Los Gatos, CA: Manager, Marketing Forecasting & Analysis, job 2183 at Netflix
19. Los Gatos, CA: Director, Marketing Modeling and Analytics, job 2215 at Netflix
20. Redwood Shores, CA: Senior Rocket Scientist - Data Mining at Rocket Fuel Inc.
21. Redwood Shores, CA: Senior Rocket Scientist - Server Development at Rocket Fuel Inc.

22. Postdoc Researcher in data mining at U. of Florida, Gainesville
23. Postdoc in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery at U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
24. Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology at U. Belfast, UK

25. Data Mining Techniques Unearth Major Click Fraud Botnet
26. The Importance of Straight Data: For Simplicity, Desirable for Good Modeling
27. Data Mining IX: Data Mining, Protection, Detection and Other Security Technologies
28. SIGEVOlution Volume 2 Issue 4 is Out!
29. IBM Publication: Dynamic Warehousing: Data Mining Made Easy
30. Turn Delicious bookmarks into recommendations with InSuggest
31. Online Measurement and Strategy Report 2008

32. Centrifuge Systems Launches Ground-Breaking Information Visualization Product
33. FM Offers Social Media Metrics
34. Business Objects Adds Data Mining to Its BI Software
35. Teradata Improves Analytics for Business Users
36. Fleet Businesses Discover Fuel Savings By Data Mining
37. Sybase and KXEN to Deliver Next Generation Advanced Analytics and Data Mining
38. SPSS Text Mining Reveals Greater Customer Insights
39. Jingwei Interactive Wireless Campaign for China Circuit Championship
40. LinkedIn Gets $53 Million, Valued at $1 Billion
41. Calculating text analytics ROI: Start small and focus on customer data

42. PIKM 2008: Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management, due Jul 20
    ICDM '08: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, due Jul 7
    Visual Analytics Challenge, due Jul 11
    Video Mining 2008, ICDM-08 workshop, due Aug 1
    ACM SAC Special Track on Data Mining, due Aug 16
    Visual Analytics Evaluation spec. issue, due Sep 12
    SDM'09: Siam Conference On Data Mining, due Oct 3
    Industrial, Engineering Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, due Nov 8
    

The best answer to the question, "Will computers ever be as smart as humans?"

is probably --

Yes, but only briefly

From IEEE Spectrum special issue on singularity

Frequent words/terms in this issue:

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