Welcome to KDD-2012: August 12-16, 2012 Beijing, China

Introduction

The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-2012 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition.

KDD-2012 will run from August 12-16 in Beijing, China and will feature hundreds of practitioners and academic data miners converging on the one location.

News

• May 16, 2012 - Information about Student Travel Award Application has been posted.
• May 8, 2012 - Over 700 teams are competing on this year's KDDCUP.
• May 5, 2012 - Information about Venue, Accommodation and About Beijing has been posted.
• May 4, 2012 - The registration system is open.
• May 3, 2012 - Call for Student Volunteers has been posted.
• April 28, 2012 - Preliminary information about Registration has been posted.
• April 27, 2012 - Preliminary information about the Asia-Pacific Track has been posted.
• April 24, 2012 - Preliminary information about the Industry Practice Expo has been posted.
• April 19, 2012 - Information about the Summer School has been posted.
• April 11, 2012 - Special issue on "A Conversation with Chinese KDD Leaders", is posted in KDD Explorations, December 2011, Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 72 - 103. [link]
• April 11, 2012 - KDDCUP Track 1 (social media) got more than 400 competing teams. Track 2 now opens.
• April 06, 2012 - The list of invited Tutorials has been posted.
• March 13, 2012 - The list of accepted Workshops has been posted.
• March 09, 2012 - Information about the Visa Application has been posted.
• February 26, 2012 - We are now taking requests for copies of the KDD-2012 Poster.
• February 20, 2012 - The external KDD Cup Website http://kddcup2012.org is open.
• February 11, 2012 - The research and I/G tracks received 755 and 114 submissions, respectively, this year!
• February 1, 2012 - Call for Demonstrations has been posted.
• February 1, 2012 - Call for Exhibits has been posted.
• January 19, 2012 - KDD submission website https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/KDD2012/ is open to take submissions. Good luck to your papers.
• January 16, 2012 - KDD Cup 2012 preliminary information has been announced.
• January 16, 2012 - KDD 2012 Workshop Proposal Deadline is February 1, 2012.
• December 22, 2011 - An Introduction to ACM KDD Conferences, by Professor Jianyong Wang, Published on Communications of the Chinese Computer Federation, Vol. 12, 2011 (In Chinese). [PDF]
• December 20, 2011 - Research Track Program Committee has been posted.
• December 19, 2011 - Industry & Government Track Program Committee has been posted.
• December 16, 2011 - Information about the Keynote Speakers has been posted.
• November 1, 2011 - Flyer has been posted.
• October 12, 2011 - Call for Workshops has been posted.
• October 11, 2011 - Information about the Industry Practice Expo track has been posted.
• October 7, 2011 - KDD Cup Call for Proposals has been posted.
• October 5, 2011 - Call for Papers has been posted.

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors:

Tencent Inc.

Silver Sponsors:

Bronze Sponsor:

Indus./Gov. Track Best Paper Award Sponsor:

Student Travel Award Sponsor:

Research Track Best Paper Award Sponsor:

Exhibitors: