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.

Conferences

SIGKDD has hosted an annual conference - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - since 1995^[1]. Conference papers of each Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM^[2]

In 2012, KDD will take place in Beijing, China.

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.

Awards

The group also annually recognizes members of the KDD community with its Innovation Award and Service Award.

SIGKDD Explorations

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

• Bart Goethals (since 2010)
• Osmar R. Zaiane (2008-2010)
• Ramakrishnan Srikant (2006-2007)
• Sunita Sarawagi (2003-2006)
• Usama Fayyad (1999-2002)

Current Executive Committee

Chair

• Usama Fayyad^[3] (2009-)

Treasurer

• Osmar R. Zaiane (2009-)

Directors

• Johannes Gehrke
• Robert Grossman
• David D. Jensen^[4]
• Raghu Ramakrishnan
• Sunita Sarawagi^[5]
• Ramakrishnan Srikant^[6]

Former Chairpersons

• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro^[7] (2005-2008)
• Won Kim (1998-2004)

Information Directors

• Ankur Teredesai (2011-)
• Gabor Melli^[8] (2004-2011)
• Ramakrishnan Srikant (1998-2003)

References

1. ^ http://www.sigkdd.org/conferences.php
2. ^ http://dl.acm.org/event.cfm?id=RE329
3. ^ http://www.fayyad.com/usama
4. ^ http://kdl.cs.umass.edu/people/jensen/
5. ^ http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sunita/
6. ^ http://www.rsrikant.com/
7. ^ http://www.kdnuggets.com/gps.html
8. ^ http://www.gabormeli.com/RKB

External links

• ACM SIGKDD Homepage
• ACM SIGKDD Explorations Homepage