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Chemnitz, Germany, February 13, 2001
All clear for 2nd Data Mining Cup for students - Winner flies to the U.S.A.

It is the second time that the working group "artificial intelligence"
of the Technical University Chemnitz and the firm PRUDENTIAL SYSTEMS
SOFTWARE GmbH seated in the Technology Center Chemnitz invite to come
to the Data Mining Cup. For students from the German-speaking region,
there will be a contest for the best solution to a data analysis
problem. All infos to that are available in the Internet under
http://www.data-mining-cup.de. The "cup" will take place from spring
up to summer 2001. From now on, interested students can enroll for
the contest. Thereupon, they get a free-of-charge software developed
by PRUDENTIAL SYSTEMS with which they have to deal with a concrete task
specification from April 17, 2001 onward. At that, commercial products of
other offerers as well as own developments can be used too. The solutions
have to be submitted by May 18, 2001. The winners of the contest will
get attractive prizes such as the participation in the International
Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in San Francisco/U.S.A.

Objective of the Data Mining Cup 2001 is to cause students to become
interested in the intelligent data analysis. On the closing event
and on the Data Mining user event days on June 21/22, 2001 in the
Dorint Parkhotel Chemnitz, the job perspectives in this field will be
shown. During an extensive program on these two days that spans from
lectures via a recruitment action up to firm presentations, students and
firm representatives can become acquainted with each other. Straightaway,
again, contest sponsors could be obtained Germany-wide.