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SIGKDD Program Review
www.sigkdd.org
www.kdd.org
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
SIGKDD Chair
[email protected]
Sep 2008 SGB Meeting
State of SIGKDD
• Membership
– 1,213 (steady, student membership down)
• Current Fund Balance
– $901,780
• KDD Conference in good shape!
SIGKDD Services
• KDD Annual International Conference
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Free tutorials
12 workshops at KDD-08
Best research, app, student paper awards
10 Student travel awards
The Explorations Semi-Annual Newsletter
Curriculum in Data Mining published
Helped launch ACM TKDD
New: WSDM conference (co-sponsored with
SIGMOD, SIGIR, SIGWEB)
• Webcasts
SIGKDD Annual Awards (Since 1999)
• SIGKDD Innovations Award
• SIGKDD Services Award
– Top awards in field of Data Mining and KDD
• New in 2008: Dissertation Award
– Goal : increase student awareness of Data Mining
and KDD
• Award amounts $2,500 (since 2003)
SIGKDD Membership
• Total membership as of June’08 is 1,213
• Membership overall steady, slight decline
– student membership down
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KDD Conference Attendance
KDD-08
743
Acceptance
Rate ~
20%
New Initiative: Social KDD
• Add comments, discussion for each KDD
paper
– Pilot for KDD-08, 09 ?
– SIGKDD Explorations? ACM ?
• Additional benefits:
– Top papers, tags, popular topics, trends …
• Problems
– Author involvement needed;
– User registration
– Avoiding spam
KDD-08 Business Lunch, Aug 26, 2008
New Initiatives
• Large dataset repository
• Robert Grossman, NCDM
• Develop KDD benchmarks
• Experts workshop to examine
KDD trends and future
research directions
• KDD-09 in Europe (Paris)