KDnuggets : News : 2003 : n23          ( Previous issue | Next issue )

KDnuggetsTM News 03:23, Dec 9, 2003

Features | Jobs | Academic | Requests | Briefs | CFP | Quote
  • (item1) Poll results: Outsourcing is not widespread
  • (item2) New Poll: Job satisfaction
  • (item3) CFP: KDD-04, 10th Int. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, deadline Feb 20, 2004
  • (item4) Rakesh Agrawal selected as one of Scientific American 50 leaders
  • (item5) NSF ITR Program Announcement: Letters of Intent 01/14/04, Proposals 02/24/04
  • (item6) NSF Programs: CyberTrust, Sensors and Sensor Networks
  • (item7) Number of Statisticians and Data Miners ?
Jobs (see also KDnuggets Jobs page)
  • (item8) Colworth, UK: Networks/Adaptive Systems specialist at Unilever
  • (item9) Seattle, WA: Software Development Engineers at Amazon.com
Academic (see also KDnuggets Academic page)
  • (item10) Ph.D. Fellowships in Ecosystem Informatics (IGERT) at Oregon State U., Corvallis
Requests
  • (item11) How to determine if there is a pattern in lottery results?
Briefs
  • (item12) MIT engineers mine for new materials with a computer
  • (item13) Data mining for finding Medicare Fraud
  • (item14) SPSS Announces Predictive Text Analytics Solution
  • (item15) INFORSENSE Announces Major Enhancement To Discovery Informatics Platform
  • (item16) Army investigates Jet Blue; Torch Concepts investigates terrorism
  • (item17) Data mining to find Angel Investors
  • (item18) KXEN and Expert Information Services To Provide Predictive Analytics in Asia Pacific
  • (item19) Privacy debates are hurting US ability to use IT and data mining technology against terrorism
  • (item20) Life Insurance Corp plans new data mining project
  • (item21) Congress to Approve Funding for Computing Research and Education
  • (item22) SAS center in India to be largest outside US
  • (item23) Marketing Databasics integrates KXEN's predictive modelling technology
CFP (see also KDnuggets Meetings page)
  • (item24) Euro-Par'04 DB/DM/KDD track, Jan 30
    NAFIPS-04, Feb 2
    KDD-2004, Feb 20
    COLT 04, Feb 24
    WI'04, Apr 4
    ICDM-04, June 1
Quote
From the life of real miners:
PERTH-based De Grey Mining has made a significant new discovery at its Indee Turner River gold project in Western Australia's Pilbara region, returning intercepts including 32m at 8.4gpt and 26m at 8.39gpt. (Monday, December 08, 2003, http://www.miningnews.net/)
Thanks to Ronny Kohavi.

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