KDnuggets : Newsletter : 1999 Issues :

KDnuggets News(tm) 99:08, emailed 1999-04-06


News:
  (item1) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, CRISP-DM -- proposed global standard for a
        Data Mining Process
  (item2) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Industry Briefs: Hummingbird acquires LeoLogic,
        Quadstone releases Transactionhouse
  (item3) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, IW: Technology No Substitute For Fundamentals
Requests:
  (item4) Vibhas Muthu, Request: Request: mining village and district data
Publications:
  (item5) Huan LIU, Call for Papers: Instance Selection - Special Issue of DMKD
  (item6) Blaz Zupan, Call for Papers: Methods of Information in Medicine Special Issue
Positions:
  (item7) Kate H. Kennedy, Fireman's Fund: Manager of Marketing Analysis, Novato, CA.
  (item8) Goulart, Laura, Xerox Parc Research Positions for Smart Matter Diagnostics Project,
        Palo Alto, CA
Tools/Services:
  (item9) Robert Keller, Xpertrule Miner 4.0 -- Press Release
  (item10) Chris Fraley, MCLUST now available in the freely available R language
Meetings:
  (item11) Greg Cooper, UAI'99 registration
  (item12) Alex Alves Freitas, AAAI-99 & GECCO-99 workshop on data mining with evolutionary algorithms
         July 18, Orlando, Florida.

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