SF Bay ACM Data Mining SIG

We are delighted to announce the start of a new special interest group focusing on data mining and related technologies. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for those interested in the areas of knowledge discovery, data mining and data engineering to meet, share ideas, and network.

The Data Mining field stands today where the database field stood about 15 years ago. The field is in the early adoption phase in the market. We expect that within the next 3 to 5 years the field will mature and that within 10 years, data mining and related technologies will become an integral part of information technology.

There is considerable emerging research in the fields of databases, machine learning, applied statistics, visualization, and other fields relevant to data mining and knowledge discovery. At the forum, we will strive to bring you, every month, what’s new, emerging, and important in the field of data mining. Each month, there will be an invited speaker presenting a topic of interest. From time to time, we will also organize special events such as workshops and panel discussions.

Suggestions, feedback, and volunteer inquiries can be sent to Ramasubbu “Venky” Venkatesh at rvenky4@yahoo.com or Greg Makowski at greg_makowski@yahoo.com.

2009 Meeting Schedule

Date	Topic	Speaker	Links
July 08	A Practical Algorithm for Optimal Segmentation Analysis of Event Data	Jeffrey D. Scargle, Ph.D., NASA Ames Research Center
Jun 10	Interaction Detection With TreeNet Boosted Tree Ensembles	Dan Steinberg, Ph.D., President and Founder of Salford Systems
May 13	Using Neural Nets to Enhance Rule-Based Trading Systems in Quantitative Finance	Michael Bowles, Independent Consultant
April 08	Using Supervised and Unsupervised Learning to Detect and Isolate Faults in Rocket Engines	Mark Schwabacher, NASA Ames Research Center	Video
March 11	Embedded Automatic Model Training and Forecasting in an Enterprise Software Application	Greg Makowski, Golden Data Mining	Video

2008 Meeting Schedule

Date	Topic	Speaker	Links
October 08	Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network	Ellen Spertus, PhD, Research Scientist, Google Research
August 13	Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner	Randall Matignon, Amgen Inc.
June 11	Automated Dependency Discovery of Hosts and Network Services in Distributed Systems	Moises Goldszmidt, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research	Video
April 9	Learning Outside the Box and the Simplex: Efficient Projection Algorithms for Sparse Representations	Yoram Singer, Senior Research Scientist, Google Inc.
March 5	Databases and Algorithms for Pathway Bioinformatics	Peter D. Karp, Director, Bioinformatics, SRI International
February 13	SILVIA: A Practical Hybrid Approach for Conversational Intelligence	Leslie Spring, CTO and Founder, Cognitive Code Corporation	Video
January 9	Learning in Networks: from Spiking Neural Nets to Graphs	Victor Miagkikh, Machine Learning Specialist, Cisco Systems, Inc.	Video

2007 Meeting Schedule

Date	Topic	Speaker	Links
December 12	Putting Engineering Back in Protein Engineering	Sridhar Govindarajan, VP Informatics and Claes Gustafsson, VP Marketing, DNA 2.0	Video
November 14	Mapping and Aligning Sequences to Genomes Across Different Species	Thomas Wu, Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics, Genentech
October 10	Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering	Mayur Datar, Research Scientist, Google	Video
September 12	Finding without Searching: A Long-tail Social Commerce Story	Neel Sundaresan, Director, eBay Research Labs
August 8	Bringing Data into the Web's Fabric: The Swivel Approach	Joseph M. Hellerstein, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and Sara Wood, Chief Data Officer, Swivel
July 11	In-Database Analytics: A Disruptive Technology	Marcos M. Campos, Technology Development Manager, Data Mining Technologies group, Oracle
June 13	Cutting Edge Web Analytics: Beyond Clickstream and Towards True Customer Centricity	Avinash Kaushik, Author, Blogger, and Analytics Evangelist at Google
May 9	Exploratory Mining in Cube Space	Raghu Ramakrishnan, VP and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research
April 11	Using Data Mining to Measure Similarity Between Words and Objects	Mehran Sahami, Senior Research Scientist, Google
March 14	Scientific Data Mining - Challenges at the Petascale	Chandrika Kamath, Computer Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
February 13	iLink and Web 2.0: Machine Learning on Dynamic Content-Driven Social Networks	Sugato Basu, Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International

Please note that the date of the talk entitled Mapping and Aligning Sequences to Genomes Across Different Species presented by Thomas Wu has been changed from July 11 to November 14, 2007. The table above reflects the latest schedule.

2006 Meeting Archives

Date	Topic	Speaker
June 14	Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce	Ron Kohavi, General Manager, Experimentation Platform, Microsoft
July 12	Business Environment Monitoring: A Critical Frontier For Business Intelligence	Alex Kass, Senior Research Manager, Accenture Technology Labs
August 9	Machine Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning for Automated Diagnosis of Distributed Systems Performance	Ira Cohen, Senior Researcher, Hewlett Packard Research Labs
September 13	Monitoring Massive Streams Simultaneously: A Holistic Approach	Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo Research
October 11	Methods, examples, and implications of integrative biology	Atul Butte, Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine
November 8	Machine learning on multi-core	Gary Bradski, Manager, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Intel Research
December 13	Recent Advances in Data Mining in the Aerospace Domain	Ashok N. Srivastava, Ph.D., Intelligent Data Understanding Group Lead, NASA Ames Research Center

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