News:
(item1) Gregory Piatetsky, KDD-99 CFP reminder -- Abstracts due March 1, 1999
(item2) Gregory Piatetsky, Industry News: Exchange Applications {public;}
K.Wiz, Hyperparallel, ISL bought
(item3) Ismail Parsa, KDD-Cup-98 web site and data set available
Publications:
(item4) Hendrik Blockeel, Two data mining PhD theses, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
(item5) Mehran Sahami, PhD Thesis on Machine Learning/Information Access
(item6) Xindong Wu, Knowledge and Information Systems: Vol 1 No 1 (1999)
Tools/Services:
(item7) Gerhard Paass, free statistics package R, a clone of Splus
(item8) Liu Bing, Free CBA (Classification and Association Rules) system
Positions:
(item9) Thomas Reinartz, Ulm, Germany: Ph.D. Position at DaimlerChrysler
(item10) Georges Harik, Positions at SGI, Mountain View, CA
(item11) Melinda Mullenix, Des Moines, Iowa: Computational Biologist at
Pioneer Hi-Bred
(item12) Uwe Stueckmann, Associate Director, Statistical Services at
Airmiles.com
(item13) Marc VanHulle, Postdoc at K. U. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Courses:
(item14) Herb Edelstein, New course: How to Successfully Mine Data,
March 22-23, 1999, Bethesda, Maryland
(item15) Louis Wehenkel, Lectures on Data Mining (IBM Chair),
University of Li�ge, Belgium, Feb--April 1999
(item16) Peter Brockhausen, ICAI-99 course on AI and KDD,
March 11, 1999, Dortmund, Germany
Meetings:
(item17) Rauch Jan, CFP: PKDD'99, Prague, Sep 15-18, 1999,
http://lisp.vse.cz/pkdd99/
(item18) PAKDD99, How to get Visa to China for People Attending PAKDD-99
http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99/
(item19) Yves Kodratoff, CFP: ACAI-99 Workshop on {Text Mining} ,
Crete, 5-16 July 1999
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99
(item20) T.D. Collins, cfp: GECCO'99 EC Visualization Workshop,
Orlando, FL, July 14-17, 1999,
http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/pp/t.d.collins/workshops/gecco-99/
(item21) Peter Flach, Final CFP: Inductive Logic Programming '99
June 24-26, 1999, Bled, Slovenia
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~ilp99/
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