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RCOMM 2010: Rapid Miner Conference

Friday, July 16th, 2010

RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference – RCOMM 2010

As RapidMiner has once again proved to be the most-used open source data mining tool among the community of data analysts world-wide in a recent poll, it is now the time to give a face to that community. Therefore, Rapid-I hosts the first RapidMiner Community Meeting And Conference (RCOMM 2010) and invites users and developers of RapidMiner to take part and share their RapidMiner experiences with other members of the community. The RCOMM 2010 intends to intensify the community life and strengthen the RapidMiner network by bringing together users and developers of RapidMiner from all backgrounds, may they be scientific or commercial, from the whole variety of applications and from all grades of knowledge. A vital exchange of ideas, application reports, and scientific results will help beginners to advance and will inspire the already advanced leading them to professionalism. Users will profit from in-depth knowledge of developers, who in turn will gain from picking up requirements and ideas for further development.

The RCOMM 2010 encompasses conference talks, in which invited lecturers will discuss aspects of state-of-the-art data mining with RapidMiner. A Call-for-Papers will be issued for those who would like to present their work in that scope. Workshops will be held to give participants a hands-on experience concerning several topics regarding RapidMiner usage. Additionally, attendees of the RCOMM 2010 will also have the option to participate in several courses given by professional RapidMiner consultants in the surrounding of the user meeting.

Dates & Deadlines:
Submission Deadline:August 6, 2010
Notification of Acceptance:August 13, 2010
Camera-ready Papers:August 20, 2010
Conference: September 13 – 16, 2010

Visit Conference Home: RCOMM
Registration Link: Registration
Schedule Link: Schedule

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Watson! Dear Watson!

Monday, June 21st, 2010

For the last few years, IBM scientists have been developing the most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed by the user, and is expected to respond with a precise answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Google and Bing do, which is merely point to a set of results where you might find the answer. But Watson has to give the correct answer itself. Lets look at Watson in a trivia challenge:

[ MSNBC ]

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Educational Data Mining

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Even today Education stands on the list of grand challenges of the 21st  century. There are two major areas which cover the breadth(involves reaching broader audience with common goals, and rising literacy level across the globe) and depth(effective and clear learning) of the challenges in education. Carnegie Mellon University played host to the conferences on the use of computers in education. Educational data mining is all about using data gathered from educational services or tools(includes user data or student data), and mine it to find knowledge which when applied would aid the user with better service offering(improved learning or faster efficient learning).

The Third International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2010), which was held June 11-13, and the10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS2010), June 14-18 were held on carnegie mellon campus. The conferences are a clear sign that the educational data mining is emerging into a strong research area.

[Read Dr. Dobbs]

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Future Technology Research from Intel on Display

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Photo by James Martin/CNET

Future Technologies Group, part of Intel Labs, are researchers who research into technology which humans could use in the future. Recently they did conduct a display of some of the ongoing research, which is more like a open house event. Some interesting next generation projects are as follows:

  • Highly accurate facial-recognition system
  • Personal energy system
  • Interactive Digital Aura
  • ClassmateAssist
  • Summarize (Text to Speech Software)
  • Augmented Image Reality

[More at CNET]

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