News: (item1) GPS, Industry News: Data Mining in the Air, VR (item2) Maria Zemankova, NSF Plant Genome Venture Funding Opportunity (item3) Sal Stolfo, JAM at the DARPA IDS Evaluation Requests: (item4) Duncan Chapple, What data mining tools run on AIX? Publications: (item5) Carla Brodley, KDD Article in AMERICAN SCIENTIST (item6) Naren Ramakrishnan, CFP: IEEE Computer Spec. Issue on data analysis and mining Tools/Services: (item7) GPS, Tools for Sequence Discovery -- a summary (item8) Maria Pia Pensini, Visualmine - visualisation tool for data mining (item9) Chris Fraley, MCLUST software : Windows version, enhancements, etc Positions: (item10) Sheng Ma, Job opening for machine learning/data mining in IBM T.J. Watson Meetings: (item11) Foster Provost, CFP: KDD-99, The ACM SIGKDD Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 15-18, 1999, San Diego, CA, USA http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/kdd99/ (item12) A. Famili, CFP: Pre- and Post-Processing in Machine Learning and Data Mining: Workshop within Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99) 5-16 July 1999, Greece http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99 (item13) Jiawei Han, CFP: U.S. NCGIA Spatial Data Mining Specialist Meeting, Redmond, Washington, March 18-20, 1999 (item14) Belur Dasarathy, Final program for SPIE Conference on Data Mining, April 5-6, 1999 at Orlando, Florida, http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/programs/or99/confs/3695.html
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