KDnuggets^TM News 04:01, Jan 13, 2004

• (item1) Poll Results: Few people care about CAN-SPAM act
• (item2) New Poll: Your organization purchase plans over the next 6 months?
• (item3) ESOMAR Market Research Technology and Innovation Conf., Feb 1-3, Barcelona
• (item4) Top search phrases on KDnuggets
• (item5) KDD-2004 Call for Research Track Papers, deadline February 20, 2004
• (item6) KDD-2004 Call for Industrial/Government Track Papers, deadline February 20, 2004
• (item7) KDD-2004 Call for Tutorial Proposals, deadline March 5, 2004
• (item8) KDD-2004 Call For Workshop Proposals, deadline March 5
• (item9) NSF announces Human and Social Dynamics Competition for FY 2004; letters of intent 03/03/04, proposals due 03/30/04

• (item10) Industry experts delivering courses for today's fast paced business world
• (item11) Genalytics free webcast: How to Build Better Predictive Models using Genetic Algorithms, Jan 15, 3-4 pm ET
• (item12) DATA MINING: LEVELS I, II & III [ Orlando: Feb | Las Vegas: Apr | DC: June ]
• (item13) KXEN Predictive Analytics Workshops: Jan 28, Feb 18, Turkey
• (item14) Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining, Palo Alto, CA, Feb 26-27
• (item15) CART Data Mining 2004, San Francisco, CA, Mar 22-24, Early Registration by Jan 30

• (item16) Seattle, WA: Software Development Positions in Machine Learning, Statistical Analysis, Fraud Detection, Computational Marketing etc. at Amazon.com
• (item17) Raleigh, NC: Customer Data Analyst at John Deere
• (item18) Berwyn, PA: Statistician/Advanced Modeling Specialist at @Risk
• (item19) Toronto, ON Canada: Customer Behaviour Modeller at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)
• (item20) Green Bay, WI: Data Administration Manager at Schneider National

• (item21) Predictive Dynamix seeks integration and co-development partners

• (item22) SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining is on-line
• (item23) ML Thesis wins 2003 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

• (item24) CYTEL Software Releases Statxact� Version 6, With CYTEL Studio�
• (item25) Launch of our new AI Driven Prediction Software
• (item26) Addinsoft announces the availability of XLSTAT-Pro 7.0
• (item27) IBM WebFountain -- a Fountain of Knowledge?
• (item28) Pentagon failed to study privacy issues in data-mining effort
• (item29) Visual Analytics Partners with LAS To Bolster Data Mining of Names
• (item30) Children's Memorial Hospital Receives InfoWorld 100 Award
• (item31) DataSet V new Beta has been released.
• (item32) Flagstar Bank Selects Quadstone's Business Analytics Software

• (item33) SIAM DATA MINING 2004, Call for Workshop papers, Jan 21
  SCI 2004: Multi-Conference on SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS And INFORMATICS, Jan 21
  AIAI 2004, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, Feb 9
  ISI-2004: Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Feb 10
  ICML 2004: Call for Tutorial Proposals, Feb 13
  Prestigious Applications Intelligent Systems, Feb 13
  PAIS 2004: Prestigious Applications Intelligent Systems, Feb 13
  3rd International Workshop on Web Dynamics at WWW 2004, Feb 23
  ECML-04 and PKDD-04, Call for Tutorials and Workshops, Mar 8
  WI'04, IEEE/WIC/ACM Conf. on Web Intelligence, Apr 4
  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining at QSAR 2004, Apr 15
  First Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS), Apr 16
  ICTAI'04: IEEE Conf. on Tools with AI, Jun 18

Statistical formulas may be more reliable than human intuition in predicting behavior.
(Editor: do I hear a collective: "we told you so" from data miners?)

From NPR, Jan 5, 2004, All Things Considered.

A growing school of thought suggests that precise statistical formulas may be more reliable than human intuition in predicting behavior. The perception could affect the workings of groups like parole boards, which often factor in gut instincts to decide whether an inmate is ready for release. NPR's Alix Spiegel reports.

Hear the story at http://discover.npr.org/rundowns/segment.jhtml?wfId=1584411