This 50th edition closes out Vol 5 and
the year 2001. DSstar wishes all of its readers
a happy Holiday Season and a prosperous New Year!
The first edition of Vol 6 will be published on Jan 8, 2002.

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INTERVIEW WITH INDERPAL BHANDARI

PROFITABILITY AND MINING WEB DATA

UIC TERRA WIDE DATA MINING PROJECT

Features

Analysis & Commentary

INTERVIEW WITH INDERPAL BHANDARI
by Alan Beck, Editor in Chief
In the Nov 6th edition, DSstar published the article MacInt 'CUEING' CAN HELP PREVENT FUTURE TERRORIST ATTACKS by Inderpal Bhandari. To learn more about this new approach to fighting terrorism, we interviewed Dr. Bhandari.

INTEL'S BARRETT ON MACROPROCESSING
Intel Corporation president and Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett outlined a design principle for e-Businesses and enterprise computing that will transform the way companies build and run their computing and communications infrastructures.

MAKING CRM WORK THROUGH CUSTOMER DATA INTEGRATION
by C. Alex Dietz, Acxiom Corporation
Practically everybody in the data technology business is talking about Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It's not just important, it is the single most important strategy for any enterprise. If CRM is not at the top of your list, I have to ask: What is?

GRIDS WILL TRANSFORM COMPUTING, PREDICTS SR IBM EXECUTIVE
A senior IBM executive told a conference of more than 100 leading management consulting professionals that the emerging technology of grid computing will transform their industry, and business in general.

PROFITABILITY AND MINING WEB DATA
by T. Scott Clendaniel, The Modeling Agency
Many companies now have Web sites that generate customer data by the gigabyte. The application of "Web mining" to find patterns in that information has created a very dangerous by-product: red ink. This article describes how the well intentioned focus on customer response rates and similar dependent variables may cause devastating reductions in profitability instead of increasing earnings. The reasons for this problem, as well as a step-by-step method to avoid repeating it, are not as mysterious as they might seem. By following same basic procedures, both contract data miners and internal modelers will gain a much higher likelihood of success.

WWF GOES FOR CRM BODY SLAM
Facing sliding revenue and a major restructuring, World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc (WWFE) has rolled out software that it hopes will unite its various customer relationship management (CRM) efforts and let it recapture lost revenue.

Leading Edge R&D

U.S. CUSTOMS DATABASE USED TO TRACK TERRORIST FINANCING
The Numerically Integrated Profiling System -- referred to as NIPS, in part for "nipping away at crime" -- allows investigators to examine, commodity by commodity, whether Osama bin Laden and other suspected terrorists are using trade to make or launder money.

NEW IBM TRANSISTOR TO BOOST CHIP SPEED
IBM will describe a new type of transistor this week that it says will vastly increase the performance and reduce the power consumption of chips in the coming decade. Big Blue will show off what it calls a Double Gate transistor.

UIC SCIENTISTS LAUNCH TERRA WIDE DATA MINING PROJECT
Grossman's Terra Wide project, launched last month at the SC conference in Denver, Colorado, is aimed at remotely exploring globally held terabyte datasets in real time. The underlying aim of the technology behind the testbed is to provide scientists a means to data mine and correlate datasets from different organizations to make new discoveries.

Business & Money Trail

COMPAQ ANNOUNCES VISION FOR ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
In support of its vision, Compaq unveiled a blueprint for adaptive infrastructure that enables customers to adapt to changing market conditions, conserve valuable human and technology resources, and rapidly respond to their customers in a dynamic business climate. This blueprint sets the foundation for the next generation of Compaq ProLiant server-based technologies and solutions.

INFORMATICA DATA INTEGRATION PLATFORM SELECTED BY IRS
Informatica Corporation announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has chosen Informatica PowerCenter, the company's data integration platform, to extract and integrate critical data for analysis in support of modernizing IRS tax processing and internal management systems.

CUSTOMER SERVICE 'EMPLOYEES' WHO NEVER NEED A BREAK
Most e-commerce operators agree that making the online shopping experience more personal is a sure-fire way to foster more sales. And one way to do that is to hire a staff of customer service reps and have them available to chat online with customers or answer their e-mails and phone calls.

Top Of The News

Short Takes

On The Market
IBM Delivers Innovative Business Intelligence Capabilities
SAS SRM Software Release Features Enhanced Analytics
StarMine Announces Availability of SmartEstimates
Financial Watch
The Center for Data Quality Joins DataFlux Alliance Program
PHI DATA Implements iBaan for CRM
IPS Associates/Portfolio DecisionWare Announce Partnership

Quote Of The Week

"Physics was once our friend, now it is our enemy." [regarding the inevitability that more and more transistors on chips pose new problems] -- Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64

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This 50th edition closes out Vol 5 and the year 2001. DSstar wishes all of its readers a happy Holiday Season and a prosperous New Year! The first edition of Vol 6 will be published on Jan 8, 2002.

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INTERVIEW WITH INDERPAL BHANDARI PROFITABILITY AND MINING WEB DATA UIC TERRA WIDE DATA MINING PROJECT

Features

Top Of The News

Short Takes

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Last Week's Top 5 Articles

This 50th edition closes out Vol 5 and
the year 2001. DSstar wishes all of its readers
a happy Holiday Season and a prosperous New Year!
The first edition of Vol 6 will be published on Jan 8, 2002.

INTERVIEW WITH INDERPAL BHANDARI

PROFITABILITY AND MINING WEB DATA

UIC TERRA WIDE DATA MINING PROJECT