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Oct 23-24
THE EVOLUTION OF DATA MINING TECHNICAL STRATEGIES TO BEAT YOUR COMPETITION BY THE YEAR 2002
Location: New York, New York
Contact: http://www.virtualgold.com/conference

Description: Virtual Gold, Inc. and company founder Dr. Inderpal Bhandari will host this year's most important conference in the field of Data Mining. Entitled "The Evolution of Data Mining Technical Strategies to Beat Your Competition by the Year 2002." Bhandari will lead the many experts on hand to discuss the growing role of data mining technology in business, and its new, ground breaking applications.

Bhandari is the creator of IBM's world renowned Advanced Scout, a data mining program used by the NBA. With so much data generated from every play within a game, teams were forced to spend hours analyzing this information, but never truly benefiting from it. Utilizing Data Mining technology, Advanced Scout allows teams to discover valuable hidden patterns within game data and video. Introduced to the NBA only two years ago, Advanced Scout has already actually helped NBA teams win basketball games. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal (Interactive Edition, 9/20/97), Orlando Magic assistant coach, Tom Sterner, described how the smart computer program helped an injury-ridden and depleted Orlando team come back from a 2-0 deficit to square this season's play-off series with the Miami Heat.

As it evolves, data training will become an increasingly critical tool in the business world. The conference features the technologies, approaches, and people that are determining the shape of data mining as it evolves in ways as yet unappreciated. "Those who can foresee the evolution of data mining technology will gain a decisive and valuable competitive advantage over their competition," notes Dr. Bhandari. "It's an exciting opportunity."

The invited speakers are leading experts in data mining, warehousing, high-performance computing, machine intelligence, and network computing. They develop technologies for the finance, insurance, telecommunications, entertainment, market research, and government and defense sectors.

Nov 3-4
DST'S DATA WAREHOUSING AND DSS/EIS CONFERENCE
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: http://www.dstcorp.com
conferences@dstcorp.com
800-288-5434

Description: "Transforming Business Information Into Competitive Advantage" will be the focus of the upcoming Data Warehousing and DSS/EIS Conference, November 3 & 4, 1997, at the Marriott Long Wharf in Boston, MA. Decision Support Technology (DST) of Wellesley, MA, is the conference sponsor. The conference will present the latest research and case studies on how leading organizations are utilizing information technology "to help develop and leverage corporate knowledge about their marketplaces, customers and organizational performance." In doing so, the conference will present a wide spectrum of experts and perspectives, including leading academic researchers, top IT industry analysts, business practitioners and major technology solution providers.
Headlining the conference are keynote speakers Peter Keen, author of The Process Edge and Shaping the Future: Business Design Through Information Technology; and Dr. Lynda Applegate, a noted Harvard Business School professor who will present "Harnessing the Power of Information to Create Business Value." Among the industries highlighted will be Telecommunications, Financial Services, Health Care, and Utilities. Industry perspectives will be offered by Gartner Group and IBM, while business cases will be presented from industry leaders such as American Electric Power, PacifiCare of AZ, Johns Hopkins Hospital, MCI, BankBoston, The Vanguard Group, and US West.

Nov 17-19
DATA WAREHOUSE MODELING: KEY TO DECISION SUPPORT SUCCESS
Location: Orlando, Florida
Contact: http://www.barnettdata.com
301-762-1288

Dec 3-6
NET DATABASE SUMMIT
Location: San Diego, California
Contact: http://www.dbsummit.com
415-905-2267

Dec 9-11
DCI'S DATABASE & CLIENT SERVER WORLD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: http://www.DCI.com
800-DCI-EXPO

Dec 16-17
FIRST FEDERAL DATA MINING SYMPOSIUM
Location: Washington, D.C.
Contact: http://www.afcea.org
(703) 631-6126

Description: The Federal Data Mining Symposium will spotlight the technical advances in and applications of Data Mining in the government community. The need for better and more automated methods of analysis is particularly important as the amount of data being collected and stored increases dramatically. Analysts must be knowledgeable about new types of techniques, both statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, in order to better find patterns, correlations, trends, and summaries in the wealth of data.

The major goals of the Symposium are to exchange information and ideas on the role of data mining and present requirements and proposed solutions, provide discussions on the broad range of applicable technologies, provide policy guidance applicable to DoD and civil agency information resource managers, and identify and encourage service-unique and government-wide knowledge and use of the important technology.

The Federal Data Mining Symposium will focus on three overall areas:

• User requirements for better analysis methods including data mining techniques
• Applications of data mining that have been constructed and fielded, both for structured data as well as textual and other multimedia data
• Technology for addressing the requirements

Topics of interest include:

• User requirements for data mining
• Applications of data mining
• Data mining from multimedia data (e.g., text, imagery, geospatial)
• Lessons learned from constructing data mining systems
• Solutions to data mining problems (noisy data, uncertain data, incomplete data, dynamic data)
• Data cleansing as part of the data mining process
• Visualization as part of data mining process
• Validation and verification of discovered knowledge
• Security/privacy concerns and solutions
• Employment of discovered knowledge in decision support or other systems

Data users, analysts, administrators, managers, developers, researchers, theoreticians, and vendors are cordially invited to attend and to submit papers for presentation at the Federal Data Mining Symposium. Papers will be selected based on relevance to the conference and technical quality. Selected papers will be presented at the conference and/or published in the proceedings. Exhibit Space Available! Call for Papers Due No Later Than - October 31, 1997

Jan 28-29, 1998
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Location: Santa Clara, California
Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com
800-405-2114
agent@gordianknot.com

Those in attendance of this Gordian Institute short course will learn about different methods of modeling and how those models apply to real business problems. Those who desire to make data mining an integral part of their business process are target candidates. Attendees will learn to:

• Uncover valuable information buried in data.
• Learn what data has real meaning and what data simply takes up space (also known as "data prospecting")
• Examine which data mining methods and tools are most effective
• Avoid pitfalls in the analysis of results

Gordian's "Data Mining: Principles and Practice" seminar focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining techniques in the real world. The instructor has been deeply involved with the development of data mining methods and the means of their use. Actual products will be reviewed, as will results drawn from real data mining applications.

Those who would like a hands-on perspective to the instructional sessions may attend an optional third day application workshop. The workshop will highlight superior performance as well as pitfalls resulting from various tools and techniques when applied to different types of data intensive problems. Objective evaluations of popular data mining products can save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools will perform best for your application.

Feb 11-12, 1998
DATA MINING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Location: Satellite, FL (near Orlando)
Contact: http://www.gordianknot.com
800-405-2114
agent@gordianknot.com

Those in attendance of this Gordian Institute short course will learn about different methods of modeling and how those models apply to real business problems. Those who desire to make data mining an integral part of their business process are target candidates. Attendees will learn to:

• Uncover valuable information buried in data.
• Learn what data has real meaning and what data simply takes up space (also known as "data prospecting")
• Examine which data mining methods and tools are most effective
• Avoid pitfalls in the analysis of results

Gordian's "Data Mining: Principles and Practice" seminar focuses on actual use and implementation of data mining techniques in the real world. The instructor has been deeply involved with the development of data mining methods and the means of their use. Actual products will be reviewed, as will results drawn from real data mining applications.

Those who would like a hands-on perspective to the instructional sessions may attend an optional third day application workshop. The workshop will highlight superior performance as well as pitfalls resulting from various tools and techniques when applied to different types of data intensive problems. Objective evaluations of popular data mining products can save immeasurable time and effort in assessing and selecting which suite of tools will perform best for your application.