The Tenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will take place in Seattle, Washington, USA from August 22 through 25, with an optional trip to Rainier National Park on August 26.
KDD is the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. The conference will provide a forum for academic researchers and industry and government innovators to share in their results and experience. The program will include keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, tutorials, and panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition. Visit the conference web site at http://www.kdd2004.com or http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2004/ If KDD-2004 might interest others in your organization, please hang the following one-page flyer http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2004/poster/kdd2004Ad.pdf and forward this message to others. CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: Technical papers - Research track: 40 presentations and 45 posters - Industry/Gov. track: 13 presentations and 13 posters Invited talks - Eric Haseltine, Director of Research at NSA - David Heckerman, Manager of the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics Group at Microsoft Research. Tutorials (at no additional cost) - Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Databases - Junk E-mail Filtering - Mining Unstructured Data - Online Mining Data Streams - Graph structures in data mining - Data quality and Data Cleaning: An Overview Workshops - 6th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Analysis (WebKDD 2004) - 5th Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD 2004) - 4th Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD 2004) - 3rd Workshop on Mining Temporal and Sequential Data - 3rd Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM 2004) - 3nd Workshop on Data Mining Standards (DM-SSP 2004) - "Link Discovery" Workshop (LinkKDD 2004) - Mining for and from the Semantic Web (MSW 2004) CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will take place at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle. The city of Seattle is located beside an inlet to the Pacific Ocean, and is particularly beautiful city in the summer. Some of the top sightseeing activities near the conference site include: the Space Needle, Pike Place Market, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music Project (EMP), Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Art Museum, Pioneer Square, Boeing Tour, Ballard Locks, University of Washington and the International District. A day trip to Mount Rainier is available the day after the conference.
