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SIGKDD
SIGKDD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It became an official ACM SIG in 1998. The official web page of SIGKDD can be found on www.kdd.org. The original founding Board of Directors of SIGKDD in 1998 consisted of:
- Won Kim, President, Cyber Database Solutions, SIGKDD Chair
- Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden, SIGKDD Secretary/Treasurer
- Usama Fayyad, Microsoft Research, SIGKDD Director and Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Knowledge Stream Partners, SIGKDD Director
- Daryl Pregibon, AT&T Labs, SIGKDD Director
- Padhraic Smyth, U. of California Irvine, SIGKDD Director
With the formation of SIGKDD, the KDD Conference was moved from Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence as the main sponsor to the Association for Computing Machinery.