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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