SIGKDD Program Review www sigkdd org www kdd
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SIGKDD Program Review www. sigkdd. org www. kdd. org Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro SIGKDD Chair gps@acm. org 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 – 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 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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)
