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KDD workshops: 1989, 1991,1993, 1994.
Inter. Conferences: KDD’95, 96, 97, 98, 99 (USA)
PAKDD’97, 98, 99 (Asia) , PKDD’97, 98, 99 (Europe)
Industry interests and competition: IBM, Microsoft,
Silicon Graphics, Sun, Boeing, NASA, SAS, SPSS, …
JAPAN: FGCS Project (logic programming and reasoning, more attention on knowledge acquisition and machine learning).
“Knowledge Discovery is the most desirable end-product of computing”. Wiederhold, Standford Univ.
80% of the Fortune 500 companies are currently involved
in data mining pilot projects or using data mining systems
KDD: A New and Fast Growing Area