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Subject: DecisionStats (Ajay Ohri) Interview of Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

Here is an interview with Gregory Piatetsky, founder and editor of KDNuggets,the oldest and biggest independent industry websites in terms of data mining and analytics

Ajay- Please describe your career in science, many challenges and rewards that came with it. Name any scientific research, degrees teaching etc.

Gregory I was born in Moscow, Russia and went to a top math high-school in Moscow. A unique challenge for me was that my father was one of leading mathematicians in Soviet Union. While I liked math (and still do), I quickly realized while still in high school that I will never be as good as my father, and math career was not for me.

Fortunately, I discovered computers and really liked the process of programming and solving applied problems. ...

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