SIGKDD

      SIGKDD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It became an official ACM SIG in 1998. The official web page of SIGKDD can be found on www.KDD.org. The current Chairman of SIGKDD (since 2009) is Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

      Conferences

      SIGKDD has hosted an annual conference - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - since 1995. KDD Conferences grew from KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) workshops at AAAI conferences, which were started by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and Usama Fayyad in 1994. [1] Conference papers of each Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM[2]

      KDD-2012 took place in Beijing, China [3] and KDD-2013 will take place in Chicago, United States, Aug 11-14, 2013.

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      KDD-Cup

      SIGKDD sponsors the KDD Cup competition every year in conjunction with the annual conference. It is aimed at members of the industry and academia, particularly students, interested in KDD.

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      Awards

      The group also annually recognizes members of the KDD community with its Innovation Award and Service Award. Additionally, KDD presents a Best Paper Award [4] to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference.

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      SIGKDD Explorations

      SIGKDD has also published a biannual academic journal titled SIGKDD Explorations since June, 1999. Editors in Chief

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      Current Executive Committee

      Chair

      Treasurer

      Directors

      Former Chairpersons

      • Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro[8] (2005-2008)
      • Won Kim (1998-2004)
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      Information Directors

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