KDnuggets^TM News 06:n21, Nov 7, 2006

1. Poll Results: Professional Societies
2. Progress in Netflix Prize Competition
3. Computer scientists track prediction markets in run-up to U.S. elections
4. NN3: The 2006-2007 Forecasting competition for Neural Networks and other methods
5. Top items from KDnuggets News 06:n20, Oct 23
6. 2006 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award: Prof. Christos Faloutsos
7. 2006 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Dr. Xindong Wu

8. Release of BayesiaLab 4.2, the leading Bayesian Network software for Data Mining
9. Miner3D Release 6.2 - Visual Analysis Software
10. Gepsoft launches GeneXproTools 4.0

11. Nov 21 Webcast: Will automated predictive modeling be your competitive edge?
12. Leverage the Power of Data Mining with Salford Systems' Training Sessions
13. DATA MINING: Levels I, II & III [ Las Vegas: Dec | Orlando: Jan ]

14. Jacksonville, FL: Marketing Analyst at Harte-Hanks
15. Mountain View, CA: Member of Technical Staff at Stratify
16. Seattle, WA: Senior Analyst at Atlas, a division of aQuantive
17. Shelton, CT: Software Project Engineer at Pitney Bowes

18. Goldstine Post-Doc position at IBM research, Yorktown Heights, NY
19. Postdoc in Bioinformatics at U. Texas at Dallas

20. PwC: Ability to Mine Data Major Major Roadblock
21. SIGEVOlution - Volume 1 - Issue 3

22. Tripos Announces Support for Open-Source Workflow Software
23. Identity Systems Extends Identity Search to Unstructured Data
24. XLSTAT 6.5 available - data analysis and statistics in Excel
25. U.S. revives terror data mining
26. Researchers teach computers how to name images
27. Web Mining in the Leisure Industry
28. SPSS Reports Record Third Quarter Revenues
29. ClearForest and Business Objects Partner to Extend BI Reporting and Search with Text Analytics

30. ICDM'06: IEEE Int. Conference on Data Mining, Hong Kong, Dec 18-22

31. KDD-2007 Call For Research Papers - abstracts due Feb 23, 2007
32. KDD-2007 Call For Industry Track Papers - abstracts due Feb 23
33. KDD-2007 Call For Tutorial Proposals - due Feb 28, 2007
34. KDD-2007 Call For Workshop Proposals - due Feb 28, 2007
35. EVOBIO 2007: Evolutionary Computation, ML and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, due Nov 10
    IEEE DMIR-07: Data Mining and Information Retrieval Symposium, due Dec 1
    FLAIRS 20, due Nov 20
    Call for Workshops at COMPSAC 2007, due Dec 15
    NSF BioSurveillance Workshop 2007, due Jan 30
    Adversarial Issues in Web Search, spec. issue, due Mar 30
    IDA 2007, due Apr 6
    

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IEEE Intelligent Systems (10/06) Vol. 21, No. 5, P. 33; Mihalcea, Rada; Strapparava, Carlo