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ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for the 2009 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. See 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, and Raghu Ramakrishnan.

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. See www.sigkdd.org/awards.php for more.

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.

Service Award Broader Scope - Data Mining Contribution to Society

In 2009, we will expand the scope of SIGKDD Service Award to consider also service and contribution to society at large, such as using data mining to improve medical care, education, or similar applications.

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 May 1, 2009 to

Robert Grossman, grossman at uic dot edu

The awards will be presented at the ACM SIGKDD-2009 Conference in Paris, France, June 28 - July 1, 2009. www.sigkdd.org/kdd2009/

2009 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee

To be finalized