The first issue of SIGKDD Explorations, the official newsletter of the ACM's new Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining was published in June 1999 and was sent to all SIGKDD members and ACM network of libraries. It will also be included in SIGMOD's DiSC anthology CD-ROM. If you are a member and did not receive your hardcopy, please e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to fix any problems with your membership. The first vlume is available to all on the web at: http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/SIGKDD. If you have any short news items or announcements approriate for inclusion in the second issue, please submit them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more information and examples from issue 1, please see: http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/SIGKDD. SIGKDD Explorations is a twice-annual newsletter dedicated to serve the SIGKDD membership and community. Anoouncements should not exceed 4 lines in length. Please provide URL if there is associated web information. *NEW*: We also have added a for-pay advertisement section to allow vendors, companies, consultants, and others to reach the rapidly growing SIGKDD community. Advertising rates start at $250 for quarter page, $500 per half page, and $1000 for a full page. All submissions must arrive by Jan. 20, 1999 for inclusion in the next issue. thanks, Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://research.microsoft.com/datamine/SIGKDD
