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SIGKDD Program Review sigkdd kdd

SIGKDD Program Review www.sigkdd.org www.kdd.org. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro SIGKDD Chair gps @ acm.org Sep 2008 SGB Meeting. State of SIGKDD. Membership 1,213 (steady, student membership down) Current Fund Balance $901,780 KDD Conference in good shape!. SIGKDD Services.

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SIGKDD Program Review sigkdd kdd

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  1. SIGKDD Program Reviewwww.sigkdd.orgwww.kdd.org Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro SIGKDD Chair gps@acm.org Sep 2008 SGB Meeting

  2. State of SIGKDD • Membership • 1,213 (steady, student membership down) • Current Fund Balance • $901,780 • KDD Conference in good shape!

  3. SIGKDD Services • KDD Annual International Conference • Free tutorials • 12 workshops at KDD-08 • Best research, app, student paper awards • 10 Student travel awards • The Explorations Semi-Annual Newsletter • Curriculum in Data Mining published • Helped launch ACM TKDD • New: WSDM conference (co-sponsored with SIGMOD, SIGIR, SIGWEB) • Webcasts

  4. SIGKDD Annual Awards (Since 1999) • SIGKDD Innovations Award • SIGKDD Services Award • Top awards in field of Data Mining and KDD • New in 2008: Dissertation Award • Goal : increase student awareness of Data Mining and KDD • Award amounts $2,500 (since 2003)

  5. SIGKDD Membership • Total membership as of June’08 is 1,213 • Membership overall steady, slight decline • student membership down

  6. KDD Conference Attendance KDD-08 743 Acceptance Rate ~ 20%

  7. New Initiative: Social KDD • Add comments, discussion for each KDD paper • Pilot for KDD-08, 09 ? • SIGKDD Explorations? ACM ? • Additional benefits: • Top papers, tags, popular topics, trends … • Problems • Author involvement needed; • User registration • Avoiding spam KDD-08 Business Lunch, Aug 26, 2008

  8. New Initiatives • Large dataset repository • Robert Grossman, NCDM • Develop KDD benchmarks • Experts workshop to examine KDD trends and future research directions • KDD-09 in Europe (Paris)

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