News:
(item1) Gregory Piatetsky, Industry Briefs: Quadstone, Digital Archaeology
Publications:
(item2) Michael Jordan, New Book: Learning in Graphical Models
(item3) Maria Zemankova, NSF Biocomplexity: due dates 3/15 {preproposals;}
6/15 proposals
(item4) Randall Caldwell, CFP: J. of Comp. Intelligence in Finance
Spec. Issue on Option Pricing using Computational Intelligence
Tools/Services:
(item5) Jakub Zavrel, Software release: Timbl 2.0
(item6) Asif Khalak, Software: XGobi visualizer
Positions:
(item7) Ira Haimowitz, New York, NY: Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals
(item8) Simon Riggs, UK: Data Miner(s) required at consulting firm
(item9) Antal van den Bosch, The Netherlands, Eindhoven/Tilburg U. :
Ph.D. project "Machine learning for planning"
(item10) Alex Buchner, UK, University of Ulster: Data Mining/Warehousing
Meetings:
(item11) Ning Zhong, How to attend PAKDD-99
Beijing, China, April 26-28, 1999
http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99/
(item12) Hannu Toivonen, Workshop: Euro-Par'99, Toulouse,
France, Aug 31 - Sep 3, 1999
http://www.enseeiht.fr/europar99/programme/ws22.html
(item13) ICML-99, ICML99 CFP Reminder, papers due February 1, 1999
http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/cfp.html
(item14) Alex Freitas, AAAI-99 & GECCO-99 wkshop on Data Mining with
Evolutionary Algorithms, July 17, 1999, Orlando, Florida.
http://www.ppgia.pucpr.br/~dmea/
(item15) Koichi Furukawa, DS99 Call for Papers, Tokyo, Japan
December 6-8, 1999,
http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds99
(item16) Robert Smith, Reminder: GECCO'99 Submission Deadline: JAN 27, 1999
http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/
(item17) George Paliouras, Workshop on Data Mining in Economics, Marketing
and Finance, 5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece,
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99
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