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The KDD-Cup 2004 knowledge discovery and data mining competition will be held in conjunction with the tenth annual ACM SIGKDD conference. The challenge tasks are selected to be interesting to participants from both academia and industry. In particular, we encourage the participation of students.

This year's competition will focus on data-mining for a variety of performance criteria such as Accuracy, Squared Error, Cross Entropy, ROC Area, and Probability Calibration. The specific tasks, and two datasets from the areas of bioinformatics and quantum physics, will be made available the week of April 26, 2004. Stay tuned to http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004/cup.html for more information.

We are looking forward to an interesting competition and encourage your participation.

Rich Caruana & Thorsten Joachims KDD-Cup 2004 Co-Chairs