ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining�

KDD-2000 Student Travel Awards

Important Dates

KDD-2000

Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
August 20-23, 2000
Boston, MA, USA ��

Student Travel Awards

Student Travel Award Chair :� Wenke Lee, North Carolina State University, (wenke@csc.ncsu.edu)

ACM SIGKDD, SIGMOD, SIGART, and AAAI are pleased to jointly sponsor Student Travel Awards for KDD-2000.� Each award is $500.

To be eligible for the award, a student must be:

1.      an author (or a co-author) of an accepted plenary or poster paper to KDD-200, and

2.      a full-time student at the time of paper acceptance.

In addition, a student winning the award must come to KDD-2000 in order to receive the award check.

The awards will be given, in the following order, to:

1.      all students who are sole authors of plenary papers,

2.      students who are sole authors of poster papers; and if there are awards still left:

3.      students who are first authors of plenary papers,

4.      students who are first authors of poster papers,

5.      students who are co-authors, but not first authors of plenary or poster papers.

In case of ties, preference will be given to the student from the institution that is further away from the conference site.

Students whose papers have been accepted to KDD-2000 are all invited to apply for the travel awards by June 7, 2000 by sending:

1.      title page of their accepted KDD-2000 paper,

2.      Indication of plenary or poster paper,

3.      proof of their full-time student status (e.g. proof of full-time registration status for current semester),

4.      email address

to:

Wenke Lee

Department of Computer Science

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC� 27695

USA

Fax: (919) 513-1895

wenke@csc.ncsu.edu

Award notification will be made by June 14, 2000.� Award checks will be presented at KDD-2000.

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