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FeaturesSubject: SIGKDD 2008 Innovation and Service awards, nomination due June 30
ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for the 2008 Innovation and Service Awards.
Please email nomination materials by June 30, 2008 to Ramasamy Uthurusamy, samy at gm dot com.
ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award One SIGKDD Innovation Award will be given to one individual or one group of collaborators who has made significant technical innovations in the field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery that have been transferred to practice in significant ways, or that have significantly influenced direction of research and development in the field. www.sigkdd.org/awards.php The previous SIGKDD Innovation Award winners were Rakesh Agrawal, Jerome Friedman, Heikki Mannila, Jiawei Han, Leo Breiman, Ramakrishnan Srikant, and Usama Fayyad.
ACM SIGKDD Service Award The previous SIGKDD Service Award winners were Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Usama Fayyad, Xindong Wu, the Weka team led by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank, Won Kim, and Robert Grossman.
Nomination Process
Each nomination should be co-sponsored by at least 3 people. Nominations should include a 1-2 page statement justifying the nomination, and other supporting materials. All communications will be via email.
Deadline for nominations The awards will be presented at the ACM SIGKDD-2008 Conference to be held at Las Vegas, NV, August 24-27, 2008. www.kdd2008.com.
2008 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
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