SIGKDD and the KDD Conference The road ahead

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SIGKDD and the KDD ConferenceThe road ahead
Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. SIGKDD Chairman-elect -
2009 CEO, Open Insights www.open-insights.com
www.open-insights.com
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Overview

• A Word about a dear friend and KDD figure
• Words of Thanks
• Some directions for the future
• Discussion and Ideas
• Audience feedback

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Remembering Rajeev Motwani(1962-2009)

• Stanford Professor, great Algorithms and Data
  Mining Researcher, Angel Investor, Mentor to many
  Entrepreneurs and Researchers, and Personal
  Friend
• Graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1988 with a Ph.D
  in Computer Science.
• At Stanford Motwani served as a professor and
  director of graduate studies for the database
  group/infolab, and Foundations Group.

Rajeev passed away at age 47 on Friday June 10,
2009.
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Remembering Rajeev Motwani(1962-2009)

• Research Interests include
• Databases, data mining, information retrieval,
  and web searching.
• Privacy and security, particularly in the context
  of databases and information retrieval.
• Optimization and scheduling problems,
  particularly for applications in computer
  systems, compilers, and databases.
• Computational and combinatorial geometry with
  applications to robotics and vision.

Computational biology and automated drug design.
Design and analysis of algorithms with emphasis
on approximations, online computations, and
randomized algorithms, as well as related
complexity theory.
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Remembering Rajeev Motwani(1962-2009)

• On a personal note
• in 1996, I edited the original paper on Page Rank
  by Brin, Page and Motwani.
• Rajeev was the first investor in my first
  start-up out of Microsoft digiMine, Inc.
• A dear friend, a great mentor, and one of the
  most humble people I worked with

We will all miss him.
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Words of thanks

• From 1989 to 2009, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro has
  been actively involved in the organization of KDD
  conferences and the SIGKDD
• I would like to thank him personally for his
  amazing service record, and hope he continues to
  be actively involved in SIGKDD
• My thanks for the outgoing member of the SIGKDD
  EC
• Prof. Jiawei Han of University of Illinois,
  Urbana-Champaign

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Elected Board

• Chair
• Usama Fayyad, Open Insights, USA
• Secretary/Teasurer
• Osmar Zaiane, University of alberta, Canada
• Board of Directors
• Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
• Robert Grossman, National Center for Data Mining
  (NCDM) at U. Illinois Chicago and Open Data
  Group, LLC, USA
• David Jensen, Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at
  the U. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, USA
• Sunita Sarawagi, KR School of Information
  Technology, IIT Bombay, India
• Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google Inc., USA
• Outgoing Chair
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KD Nuggets, USA

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KDD-2010

• Location Washington, D.C. (most likely)
• Possibly New York in case we do not secure good
  venue
• Program Chairs
• Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo!
• Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and
  Technology
• General Chair Bharat Rao, Siemens
• Associate GC Balaji Krishnapuram, Siemens
• The functional area chairs so far are
• Karl Rexer (Sponsorhips) Prem Melville
  (Publicity)
• Brenden Kitts (Web) Nitesh Chawla (Treasurer)
• Murat Dundar (Student Awards) Jennifer Dy
  (Exhibits Demos)
• Jieping Ye (Proceedings)
• Ramani Duraiswami (Local Arrangements)

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Ideas for the future of SIGKDD

• General more aggressive PR efforts
• Working on restoring the good name of KDD
• countering/avoiding some of the data mining bad
  rep
• Award for Service to Society?
• Press coverage on KDD Cup
• More recognition of Award Winners in press and
  academic media
• More promotion of best papers awards
• Taking KDD Cup to the next level
• A prize organization with professionally run
  competition
• Long-running competitions over multiple years
• Benchmark databases with benchmark tasks and
  problems
• Working on creating more vibrant exhibits
• SC model
• DMA model

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Ideas for the future of SIGKDD

• Deployed Apps and Systems
• More stringent definition of DEPLOYED
• More recognition and publicity for DEPLOYED
  applications
• More academic and press coverage of published
  work
• Deployed Apps Awards
• Industry Speakers Awards and Recognition
• A more active Industry/Applications track
• Test of Time Award for SIGKDD
• Most influential papers over 10 years
• Challenge Area of the Year theme for SIGKDD
• Special area where deep concept papers, ideas,
  challenges are encouraged
• Survey tutorials and video lectures/podcasts to
  help newcomers catch up with various areas
• More systematic coverage of basic areas in
  Tutorials

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Ideas for the future of SIGKDD

• More active Panels/Discissions
• STUDENT Memberships
• Add free student registration awards
• Special registration discounts for members and
  student members
• Member Benefits of SIGKDD
• Take SIGKDD Explorations to the next level
• Magazine with advertising and more active
  articles

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Discussion and Feedback from Audience
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