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SIGKDD Brief Report
Usama Fayyad
Chairman, SIGKDD Executive Committee
[email protected]
Presented on Behalf of SIGKDD EC by:
Ankur Teredesai, Information Officer
Samy Uthurusamy, Awards Chair
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Financial Goals
• Grow fund balance consistently (maintain > $600K)
– Current balance: over $1M
• consistent for 3 years
– Industry contributions to conferences were dropping slowly, but hit a new
record high in 2012
– NSF support for student travel awards consistent
– Historically, KDD conferences increased our surplus balance
• Support students and outreach
– Increased student travel support to KDD conferences
– Consistently supported the Bay Area SIGKDD chapter events –
including annual Data Mining Camp since 2010
– Increased visibility and amount of Distinguished Dissertation Award
– Increased visibility and amount of best student papers awards: research
& applications
Membership Benefits
• Conferences
– Several co-sponsored conferences – major discount to KDD conferences
• Awards
– Best papers awards, best student papers, distinguished dissertation, Best
applications, Innovation, Service awards
• Outreach
– Support for students travel, special discounts for students on memberships and on
conferences
• Publications
– SIGKDD Explorations newsletter in addition to conferences
– Access to DL
• Stabilized membership
– Current membership of 1,234
• 5% drop from 2011, All time high 1600+ in 2002
– Student memberships declining – down to 67 – looking for ways to
incentivize students to join.
Goal #1: Highest Quality of Research & Application
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Building an intellectual community and recognizing excellence within that
community – both research and applied
Publications
– SIGKDD Explorations
• 2 regular issues per year, all substantial with 100+ pages and typically each has a
theme/special topic
• Always recruit guest editors as a policy
• Looking at enhancing the regular sections
– New membership option: Newsletter only
– Even though not peer reviewed, it is among top referenced publications!
• Outreach
– Enhanced student travel – supported SIGKDD student camp each year
– KDD Summer School – standing room only in 2012 and 2011 – designed to catch
students and newcomers to state of research in field – top faculty in world teaching
– Increased number and visibility of awards
– KDD Cup – recognized as a top competition in the industry
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Awards: recognized as top awards in field for service and innovation in research
and applications
Goal #2: Successful KDD Conferences
• maintain KDD as the highest quality reference conference in the
field:
– 2012 record attendance of over 1200 people
– KDD-2011 – 840, KDD-2010 – 790
– At height of Internet bubble in Boston KDD-2000 hit 1000 attendees
• sponsorship
– WSDM: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
– ICUC: International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management
and Communication
• In cooperation: 6 conferences
• Created the Industry Practice Expo: invited talks from top
practitioners with high impact applications
• Healthy set of workshops 10-15 at each conference, attracting 60 to
300+ attendees each (some are mini-conferences now)
• Fully sponsored KDD Cup competition – gets lots of media attention
– Over 900 teams participated this year!!
Goal #3: Engage Practitioners and Public
• SIGKDD: primarily a research-supporting organization
• Applications are a necessity in our field:
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Recruit students for sustainability
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Elevate recognition for applications:
• Industry/Government Applications track (fully peer reviewed papers)
• IPE Track - Industry Practice Expo (first of its kind invite only forum at an academic conference)
• KDD Cup competition: press visibility
Working on several engagement programs and special benefits: adding job-listings, adding research
directory, adding dissertations listings
Dedicated professional PR management: paid contractor to drive PR and work with
ACM
Revamp web presence
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New social media
Much improved KDD conference websites
Revamped SIGKDD web site
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SIGKDD: Future Plans and Investments
Some Plans:
• New Website KDD.org
• Data Repository Plans and Towards a Benchmark
Collection
• Grow the Summer School on Data Mining/BigData
Some Proposals
• Enhanced SIGKDD Member Benefits
• Computational Infrastructure for Big Data
SIGKDD
Memberships
Professional
Student
Affiliate
Total
1999
213
76
95
384
2000
535
226
472
1233
2001
546
260
588
1394
drop from 2011 high, lower
2002
650
206
773
1631
than 2004
2003
733
193
230
1157
2004
807
164
420
1391
2005
838
149
286
1274
2006
847
122
262
1231
2007
883
116
243
1242
2008
892
90
231
1213
2009
855
91
229
1175
2010
855
107
291
1253
2011
876
96
323
1295
2012
859
67
308
1234
1234 members – A
• We had 1234 members by
June 2012
• This is 5% drop from 2011
• Student memberships
dropping dramatically!
• We have additional 15
subscribers for newsletter
only.
KDD-2013
19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
www.kdd.org/kdd2013
Chicago, IL, USA
August 11-14, 2013
General Conference Co-Chairs:
Robert Grossman – University of Chicago
Ramasamy (Samy) Uthurusamy – [email protected]
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Inderjit Dhillon– University of Tyexas at Austin
Yehuda Koren – Google / Yahoo! Research
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KDD-2012
18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
www.kdd.org/kdd2012
Beijing, China
August 12 -16, 2012
General Conference Chair:
Qiang Yang – Hong Kong University of Sci & Tech/ Huawei
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Deepak Agarwal – LinkedIn
Jian Pei– Simon Fraser University
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SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
• Editor-in-Chief:
– Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp
[email protected]
• Associate Editors:
– Charu Aggarwal, IBM Watson
– Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State U
– Ankur Teredesai, U Washington Tacoma
SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
• June 2011
– Privacy in Mobility Data Mining
• December 2011
– Educational Data Mining
– KDD in China
• June 2012
– Data Mining for Healthcare
• Call for contributions
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Opinions, Position papers
News
Reports on related conferences
Surveys
Success stories (or failures)
Newsworthy technical
contributions
– Systems, software
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• KDD Workshop reports appear in
online version only
Data Repository
Effort to be lead by Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro:
• Those interested in helping should join the Data Repository Effort
Goals
• Collect Large Data sets
• Design data generators and standard synthetic data for variety of
problems
• Define set of problems
• Capture past KDD Cup data sets, goals, benchmarks and make
available
• Develop initial proposal for Benchmark problems and metrics
Some Ideas Under Consideration:
• Benchmark standards?
• Run algorithms in standardized environment over standardized data?