The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD, in London, UK, August 19-23. Started in 1989, KDD claims to be the world's oldest and largest data mining conference and has been the venue where concepts such as big data, data science, predictive analytics and crowdsourcing were first introduced. Continuing this tradition, KDD 2018 will showcase leading-edge research papers in data science and feature exciting keynote addresses by industry leaders, as well as informative tutorials and workshops.
The KDD 2018 program is the largest in the history of the conference, and will feature four keynote speakers, nine applied data science invited talks, 27 workshops, eight hands-on tutorials and 29 conventional tutorials. A partial listing of highlights follows.
Keynote speaker include David Hand, Senior Research Investigator Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College, London; Alvin E. Roth, Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Yee Whye Teh, Professor of Statistical Machine Learning, University of Oxford and Research Scientist, Deepmind; and Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Sciences Institute, Columbia University.
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