ACM SIGKDD, ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), is the premier global professional organization for researchers and professionals dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice of knowledge discovery and data mining. It established the Innovation and Service Awards to recognize outstanding technical and service contributions to the KDD field. http://www.sigkdd.org/awards.php.
The previous SIGKDD Innovation Award winners were Rakesh Agrawal, Jerome Friedman, Heikki Mannila, Jiawei Han, Leo Breiman, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Usama M. Fayyad, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Padhraic Smyth, and Christos Faloutsos.
The previous SIGKDD Service Award winners were Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Usama M. Fayyad, Xindong Wu, the Weka team led by Ian Witten and Eibe Frank, Won Kim, Robert Grossman, Sunita Sarawagi, and Osmar R. Zaiane.
Please email all nomination and support documents by July 1st, 2011 to:
zaiane at acm dot org with subject line "SIGKDD Award Nomination"
The 2011 awards will be presented at the 17th ACM SIGKDD 2011 Conference in San Diego, CA, USA, August 21-24, 2011 http://www.sigkdd.org/kdd/2011/
SIGKDD Chair and members of the SIGKDD Awards Committee are not eligible to be nominated for either Award and are excluded from participating in the nomination process as nominators or as supporters of the nominations.
Ramasamy Uthurusamy - Past Chair
Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University)
Peter Flash (University of Bristol)
Robert Grossman ( University of Illinois at Chicago )
Ying Li (Microsoft)
Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology , Bombay )
Padhraic Smyth ( University of California at Irvine )
Qiang Yang (Hong Kong UST)