CFP: 2012 ACM SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due July 1, 2012

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2012 ACM SIGKDD Innovation and Service Awards: Nominations due July 1,
2012

Call for Award Nominations

ACM SIGKDD invites your nominations for its 2012 Innovation and
Service Awards.

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

ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award

Innovation Award recognizes one individual or one group of
collaborators whose outstanding
technical innovations in the field of Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining have had a lasting
impact in advancing the theory and practice of the field. The
contributions must have
significantly influenced the direction of research and development of
the field or transferred to
practice in significant and innovative ways and/or enabled the
development of commercial systems.

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,
Christos Faloutsos, and J. Ross Quinlan.

ACM SIGKDD Service Award

Service Award recognizes one individual or one group for their
outstanding professional services
contributions to the field of knowledge discovery and data mining.
Services recognized include
significant contributions to the activities of professional KDD
societies and conferences,
educating students, researchers and practitioners, funding R&D
activities, professional volunteer
services in disseminating technical information to the field, and
contributions to society at large
through applications of KDD concepts to improve global medical care,
education, disaster/crisis
management, environment, etc.

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, Osmar R. Zaiane, and R. Bharat Rao.

Nomination Process

Nominations should include a 1-2 page summary statement justifying the
nomination along with
other supporting materials. Each nomination should be co- sponsored by
at least 3 people.
At most one award will be given each year in each category. All
communications will be via email.
Nominations will be valid for a period of 3 years.

Please email all nomination and support documents by July 1, 2012 to
samy at acm dot org
with subject line "SIGKDD Award Nomination"

The 2012 awards will be presented at the 18th ACM SIGKDD 2012
Conference in Beijing, China,
August 12-16 2012 http://kdd2012.sigkdd.org/

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
Chair, 2012 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee
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