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SIGKDD and the KDD Conference The road ahead

SIGKDD and the KDD Conference The road ahead. Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. SIGKDD Chairman-elect - 2009 CEO, Open Insights www.open-insights.com. www.open-insights.com. Overview. A Word about a dear friend and KDD figure Words of Thanks Some directions for the future Discussion and Ideas

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SIGKDD and the KDD Conference The road ahead

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  1. SIGKDD and the KDD ConferenceThe road ahead Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. SIGKDD Chairman-elect - 2009 CEO, Open Insights www.open-insights.com www.open-insights.com

  2. Overview • A Word about a dear friend and KDD figure • Words of Thanks • Some directions for the future • Discussion and Ideas • Audience feedback

  3. Remembering Rajeev Motwani(1962-2009) Rajeev passed away at age 47 on Friday June 10, 2009. Stanford Professor, great Algorithms and Data Mining Researcher, Angel Investor, Mentor to many Entrepreneurs and Researchers, and Personal Friend • Graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1988 with a Ph.D in Computer Science. • At Stanford Motwani served as a professor and director of graduate studies for the database group/infolab, and Foundations Group.

  4. Remembering Rajeev Motwani(1962-2009) Computational biology and automated drug design. Design and analysis of algorithms with emphasis on approximations, online computations, and randomized algorithms, as well as related complexity theory. Research Interests include: Databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web searching. Privacy and security, particularly in the context of databases and information retrieval. Optimization and scheduling problems, particularly for applications in computer systems, compilers, and databases. Computational and combinatorial geometry with applications to robotics and vision.

  5. Remembering Rajeev Motwani(1962-2009) We will all miss him. On a personal note in 1996, I edited the original paper on Page Rank by Brin, Page and Motwani. Rajeev was the first investor in my first start-up out of Microsoft: digiMine, Inc. A dear friend, a great mentor, and one of the most humble people I worked with

  6. Words of thanks • From 1989 to 2009, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro has been actively involved in the organization of KDD conferences and the SIGKDD • I would like to thank him personally for his amazing service record, and hope he continues to be actively involved in SIGKDD • My thanks for the outgoing member of the SIGKDD EC • Prof. Jiawei Han of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  7. Elected Board • Chair: • Usama Fayyad, Open Insights, USA • Secretary/Teasurer: • Osmar Zaiane, University of alberta, Canada • Board of Directors: • Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA • Robert Grossman, National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at U. Illinois Chicago and Open Data Group, LLC, USA • David Jensen, Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the U. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA • Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, USA • Sunita Sarawagi, KR School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, India • Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google Inc., USA • Outgoing Chair: • Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KD Nuggets, USA

  8. KDD-2010 Location: Washington, D.C. (most likely) Possibly New York in case we do not secure good venue • Program Chairs • Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! • Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology • General Chair: Bharat Rao, Siemens • Associate GC: Balaji Krishnapuram, Siemens The functional area chairs so far are: Karl Rexer (Sponsorhips) Prem Melville (Publicity) Brenden Kitts (Web) Nitesh Chawla (Treasurer) Murat Dundar (Student Awards) Jennifer Dy (Exhibits Demos) Jieping Ye (Proceedings) Ramani Duraiswami (Local Arrangements)

  9. Ideas for the future of SIGKDD • General more aggressive PR efforts: • Working on restoring the good name of KDD • countering/avoiding some of the data mining bad rep • Award for Service to Society? • Press coverage on KDD Cup • More recognition of Award Winners in press and academic media • More promotion of best papers awards • Taking KDD Cup to the next level • A prize organization with professionally run competition • Long-running competitions over multiple years • Benchmark databases with benchmark tasks and problems • Working on creating more vibrant exhibits • SC model • DMA model

  10. Ideas for the future of SIGKDD • Deployed Apps and Systems • More stringent definition of DEPLOYED • More recognition and publicity for DEPLOYED applications • More academic and press coverage of published work • Deployed Apps Awards • Industry Speakers Awards and Recognition • A more active Industry/Applications track • Test of Time Award for SIGKDD • Most influential papers over 10 years+ • Challenge Area of the Year “theme” for SIGKDD • Special area where deep concept papers, ideas, challenges are encouraged • Survey tutorials and video lectures/podcasts to help newcomers catch up with various areas • More systematic coverage of basic areas in Tutorials

  11. Ideas for the future of SIGKDD • More active Panels/Discissions • STUDENT Memberships • Add free student registration awards • Special registration discounts for members and student members • Member Benefits of SIGKDD • Take SIGKDD Explorations to the next level • Magazine with advertising and more active articles

  12. Usama_Fayyad@yahoo.com Discussion and Feedback from Audience www.open-insights.com

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