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Data Mining Reception Highlights U of M Cutting-Edge Data Mining Projects

Over 200 researchers and members of industry from around North America attended the University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center's Data Mining Consortium's April 27 poster session and reception that was held in Minneapolis in conjunction with the SIAM 2007 Data Mining Conference. The event provided an introduction to the University's Data Mining Consortium (DDMC) and featured twenty-one poster presentations on applications of data mining to health care, fraud and security, customer relations management (CRM), Web 2.0, and analytics.

A panel of judges drawn from academia and industry awarded prizes to the four best posters. Those receiving prizes were:

1st place: "Social Network Analysis"
Arindam Banerjee (CSE), Jaideep Srivastava (CSE), Nishith Pathak (CSE)

2nd place: "Gray's Anatomy: Dissecting Scanning Activities Using IP Gray Space Analysis"
Zhi-Li Zhang (CSE), Yi Jin (CSE)

3rd place: "Improving Chronic Disease Care: D Mining in Sparse and Synthetic Environments"
Paul Johnson (IDS-Carlson School), Gedas Admovicius (IDS-Carlson School), Ryan McCabe (IDS-Carlson School), Emily Rund (IDS-Carlson School)

Honorable Mention: "Sructural Bioinformatics"
George Karypis (CSE), Huzefa Rangwala (CSE), Kevin DeRonne (CSE), Chris Kauffman (CSE)

For more information regarding the DDMC please contact Dr. Cory Devor, Director of Business Development, devor@dtc.umn.edu.

The above researchers received awards for the posters they presented at the April 27 Data Mining Reception held in conjunction with the SIAM 2007 Data Mining Conference in Minneapolis.