Call for Nominations
April 18, 2008
2008 Data Mining Innovation and Service Awards
Nominations due June 30, 2008
ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for the 2008 Innovation and
Service Awards.
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. [http://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 M. Fayyad.
ACM SIGKDD Service Award
One SIGKDD Service Award will be given to one individual or one group
who has performed significant service to the field, that include
professional volunteer services in disseminating technical information
to the field, education, research funding, etc. [http://www.sigkdd.org/
awards.php]
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 sup****ting materials. All communications will
be via email.
At most one award will be given each year in each category.
Nominations will be valid for a period of 3 years.
Deadline for nominations
Please email all nomination materials by June 30, 2008 to Ramasamy
Uthurusamy, samy at gm dot com.
The awards will be presented at the ACM SIGKDD-2008 Conference to be
held at Las Vegas, NV, August 24-27, 2008. [http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd/
2008/]
2008 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors, USA), Chair
Usama M. Fayyad (Yahoo!, USA)
Robert Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Rajeev Motwani (Stanford University, USA)
Ramakrishnan Srikant (Google, USA)
Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Xindong Wu (University of Vermont, USA)
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