Open Insights SIGKDD and the KDD Conference The road ahead Usama Fayyad, Ph.D. SIGKDD Chairman-elect CEO, Open Insights

Overview A Word about a dear friend and KDD figure Words of Thanks Some directions for the future Discussion and Ideas Audience feedback 1

Remembering Rajeev Motwani ( ) Stanford Professor, great Algorithms and Data Mining Researcher, Angel Investor, Mentor to many Entrepreneurs and Researchers, and Personal Friend Graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1988 with a Ph.D in Computer Science. At Stanford Motwani served as a professor and director of graduate studies for the database group/infolab, and Foundations Group. 2 Rajeev passed away at age 47 on Friday June 10, 2009.

Remembering Rajeev Motwani ( ) Research Interests include: Databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web searching. Privacy and security, particularly in the context of databases and information retrieval. Optimization and scheduling problems, particularly for applications in computer systems, compilers, and databases. Computational and combinatorial geometry with applications to robotics and vision. 3 Computational biology and automated drug design. Design and analysis of algorithms with emphasis on approximations, online computations, and randomized algorithms, as well as related complexity theory.

Remembering Rajeev Motwani ( ) On a personal note in 1996, I edited the original paper on Page Rank by Brin, Page and Motwani. Rajeev was the first investor in my first start- up out of Microsoft: digiMine, Inc. A dear friend, a great mentor, and one of the most humble people I worked with 4 We will all miss him.

Words of thanks From 1989 to 2009, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro has been actively involved in the organization of KDD conferences and the SIGKDD I would like to thank him personally for his amazing service record, and hope he continues to be actively involved in SIGKDD My thanks for the outgoing member of the SIGKDD EC Prof. Jiawei Han of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 5

Elected Board Chair: –Usama Fayyad, Open Insights, USA Secretary/Teasurer: –Osmar Zaiane, University of alberta, Canada Board of Directors: –Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA –Robert Grossman, National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at U. Illinois Chicago and Open Data Group, LLC, USA –David Jensen, Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the U. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA –Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, USA –Sunita Sarawagi, KR School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, India –Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google Inc., USA Outgoing Chair: –Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KD Nuggets, USA 6

KDD-2010 Location: Washington, D.C. (most likely) Possibly New York in case we do not secure good venue Program Chairs –Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! –Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology General Chair: Bharat Rao, Siemens –Associate GC: Balaji Krishnapuram, Siemens The functional area chairs so far are: Karl Rexer (Sponsorhips)Prem Melville (Publicity) Brenden Kitts (Web)Nitesh Chawla (Treasurer) Murat Dundar (Student Awards)Jennifer Dy (Exhibits Demos) Jieping Ye (Proceedings) Ramani Duraiswami (Local Arrangements) 7

Ideas for the future of SIGKDD General more aggressive PR efforts: –Working on restoring the good name of KDD countering/avoiding some of the data mining bad rep Award for Service to Society? –Press coverage on KDD Cup –More recognition of Award Winners in press and academic media –More promotion of best papers awards Taking KDD Cup to the next level –A prize organization with professionally run competition –Long-running competitions over multiple years Benchmark databases with benchmark tasks and problems Working on creating more vibrant exhibits –SC model –DMA model 8

Ideas for the future of SIGKDD Deployed Apps and Systems –More stringent definition of DEPLOYED –More recognition and publicity for DEPLOYED applications –More academic and press coverage of published work –Deployed Apps Awards Industry Speakers Awards and Recognition –A more active Industry/Applications track Test of Time Award for SIGKDD –Most influential papers over 10 years+ Challenge Area of the Year “theme” for SIGKDD –Special area where deep concept papers, ideas, challenges are encouraged Survey tutorials and video lectures/podcasts to help newcomers catch up with various areas –More systematic coverage of basic areas in Tutorials 9

Ideas for the future of SIGKDD More active Panels/Discissions STUDENT Memberships –Add free student registration awards –Special registration discounts for members and student members Member Benefits of SIGKDD –Take SIGKDD Explorations to the next level –Magazine with advertising and more active articles 10

Open Insights Discussion and Feedback from Audience 11