Attend KDD-09 (early reg deadline May 31) - The Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery conf., Paris

[Brigitte Trousse]

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KDD-2009: The Fifteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'09)

Paris, France
June 28 - July 1, 2009.

http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/

Register by May 31 to get the early registration rates!
http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/registration.html

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As the premier international conference on Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery, KDD 2009 provides a forum for academic researchers and
industry and government innovators to share their results and experiences.
Researchers and practitioners will gather to present academic and
industrial papers, panels, implemented software demos, posters, workshops,
tutorials, and insights from the popular KDD Cup competition.

--> New this year: a social networking platform where attendees can
learn about the proceedings, collaborate on research papers, discuss
individual sessions, receive real-time updates on the conference, and
help organize social events in Paris using the site.

CONFERENCE VENUE
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--> For the first time KDD will leave America and come to Europe; KDD 2009
will take place in beautiful downtown Paris, at the Marriott Paris Rive
Gauche Hotel, 17 Boulevard St Jacques, 75014 Paris, France.

On Monday, June 29 the Conference reception will be held at the Hotel de
Ville of Paris, in the main reception room, the Salle des Fetes, where
Paris usually welcomes Heads of States and VIPs.

Please go to http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/registration.html to register
online for the conference. The early conference registration deadline
is May 31 Find the hotel reservation code on
http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/travel.html to enjoy the group rate for the 
hotel.

This year the organizers are introducing a new option besides full
participation: "Workshops, Tutorials,and Evenings" (or, "Nights and
Weekends"). This enables you to participate all day Sunday, for the
workshops and/or tutorials, as well as the evenings (5pm+ Sunday-Tuesday),
which feature invited industry talks, receptions at the beautiful
Paris Town Hall and Marriott Hotel, and technical poster sessions.
(The option omits, however, the full technical program during the 3 days,
Mon-Wed.)

If you have any registration questions direct them to:

Mandy Mann (mandy.mann at regmaster.com) or +1 407 971 4451.

For other questions, the KDD organizer contact information is at:
http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
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a) INVITED SPEAKERS:

This year, KDD features five distinguished invited speakers:
- David J. Hand, “Mismatched Models, Wrong Results, and Dreadful
Decisions: On choosing appropriate data mining tools”
- Heikki Mannila, “Randomization Methods in Data Mining”
- Stanley Wasserman, "“Network Science: An Introduction to Recent
Statistical Approaches”
- Ravi Kumar, “Mining Web Logs: Applications and Challenges”
- Ashok N. Srivastava, “Data Mining at NASA: from Theory to Applications”

b) TUTORIALS: (all tutorials are free with conference registration)

9 diverse half-day tutorials will be presented on Sunday, June 28th.
http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/tutorials.html

c) WORKSHOPS (all workshops are free with conference registration)

11 workshops, including 4 challenge workshops, will be held Sunday,
June 28th . http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/workshops.html

The detailed Conference program will soon be available on the KDD-09 web
site.

d) KDD CUP

Based on challenge data provided by Orange Labs, this year's competition
focuses on predicting customer scores from large marketing databases
from the French Telecom company, Orange.
10,000 Euros of prizes and travel grants -- generously donated by Orange --
will be distributed among the cup winners.
See progress on: http://www.kddcup-orange.com/


ENJOY PARIS
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While in Paris, enjoy the city! Register on
http://www.kdd.org/kdd2009/travel.html#deals for special
deals available to KDD participants on Saturday 27 June, Thursday 2 July,
and Friday 3 July.


-- KDD organizers http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd2009/organizers.html