Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
SIGKDD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Conferences
Since 1995, SIGKDD has hosted the annual ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). In 2010, KDD takes place at Washington, DC.
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.
Conference Proceedings
SIGKDD regularly publishes its conference papers as Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
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
Treasurer
Directors
- Johannes Gehrke
- Robert Grossman
- David D. Jensen
- Raghu Ramakrishnan
- Sunita Sarawagi
- Ramakrishnan Srikant
Former Chair
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (2005-2008)
- Won Kim (1998-2004)
Information Directors
Current Director
- Gabor Melli (since 2004)
Former Directors
- Ramakrishnan Srikant (1998-2003)