2007 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

The IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award is given to one individual or one group who has made major service contributions that have promoted data mining as a field and ICDM as the world's premier research conference in data mining. The 2007 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award goes to Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, President of KDnuggets, USA.

Dr. Piatetsky-Shapiro is the founder of the Knowledge Discovery in Database conference series (KDD, now the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining). He organized and chaired the first three KDD workshops in 1989, 1991, and 1993, and was again the General Chair of the KDD-98 conference. He helped create ACM SIGKDD, the leading professional organization for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and was elected in June 2001 as a director of SIGKDD and in June 2005 as the Chair of SIGKDD.

He is also serving on the Steering Committee of ICDM, and has been on on the program committees of numerous other conferences and workshops in artificial intelligence and databases. He is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on KDD and on the editorial board of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal. He is the Editor and Publisher of KDnuggets News (the leading newsletter on data mining and knowledge discovery) and the associated www.KDnuggets.com website (for data mining and knowledge discovery software, jobs, and other information).

Dr. Piatetsky-Shapiro has over 60 publications, including two best-selling books and several edited collections on topics related to data mining and knowledge discovery, including SIGKDD Explorations Special Issue on Microarray Data Mining.

2007 IEEE ICDM Nomination and Evaluation Committees

Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont, USA
Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Hand, Imperial College, UK
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
Vijay V. Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

From Xindong Wu (xwu AT cems.uvm.edu) on September 28, 2007.