From: 	 Ramasamy Uthurusamy   
   Date: 	 Jun 21, 2010   
   Subject:   ACM SIGKDD 2010 Service Award to Prof. Osmar R. Zaiane   
      
      
   ACM SIGKDD is pleased to announce that Prof. Osmar R. Zaiane   
   is the winner of its 2010 Service Award. He is recognized   
   for his significant service and contributions to   
   the global KDD community.   
      
   ACM SIGKDD Service Award is the highest service award in   
   the field of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). It   
   is conferred on one individual or one group for their   
   outstanding professional services and contributions to the   
   field of knowledge discovery and data mining.   
      
   Prof. Zaiane is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of ACM   
   SIGKDD. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of SIGKDD   
   Explorations, the flagship newsletter of SIGKDD, since   
   2007 after serving as its Associate Editor from 2004 to 2007.   
      
   Prof. Zaiane has a long history of serving the KDD   
   community. In addition to his dedicated service to SIGKDD   
   and its flagship conferences and workshops, he has served   
   the wider KDD community in a wide variety of roles and   
   responsibilities at ICDM, SDM, PAKDD, SIGMOD/PODS,   
   ECML/PKDD, WebKDD, MDM, etc. He has served as   
   technical program co-chair, conference vice-chair, tutorials   
   chair, technical program committee member, exhibits and   
   demos chair, sponsorship chair, proceedings chair,   
   registration chair, publicity chair, webmaster, and other   
   volunteer positions. He currently serves on the steering   
   committee of IEEE ICDM.   
      
   He also actively promotes data mining in many   
   international communities through active participation. In   
   China for the past several years, he organized and chaired   
   the International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and   
   Applications (ADMA). He currently serves on ADMA's   
   steering committee. He was Honorary General Chair of   
   EGC, the French data mining conference. He was conferred   
   the 2009 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award.   
      
   Prof. Zaiane is currently a McCalla and Killam Professor   
   of Computing Science at the University of Alberta , Canada   
   as well as the Scientific Director of the Alberta Ingenuity   
   Center for Machine Learning, a world renowned centre   
   conducting fundamental and applied research in machine   
   learning.   
      
   Prof. Zaiane received his PhD in 1999 from Simon Fraser   
   University , Canada. He joined the University of Alberta ,   
   Canada in 1999 and is now a full Professor at its   
   Department of Computing Science. He is one of the leading   
   researchers in data mining, machine learning, and   
   database fields and contributed over one hundred   
   publications. He is on the editorial board of many journals.   
   After working for many years on canonical tasks such as   
   outlier detection, clustering, associative classification,   
   community mining in information networks, etc., he is   
   lately focusing on applications in healthcare and finance.   
      
   The previous SIGKDD Service Award winners were Gregory   
   Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Usama M.   
   Fayyad, Xindong Wu, the Weka team led by Ian Witten and   
   Eibe Frank, Won Kim, Robert Grossman, and Sunita Sarawagi.   
      
   The award includes a plaque and a check for $2,500 and   
   will be presented at the Opening Plenary Session of the   
   16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge   
   Discovery and Data Mining, on July 25, 2010 in Washington, DC.   
      
   ACM SIGKDD is pleased to present Prof. Osmar R. Zaiane   
   its 2010 Service Award for his significant service and   
   contributions to the global KDD community.   
      
   2010 ACM SIGKDD Awards Committee   
    * Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Chair   
    * Robert Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago)   
    * Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   
    * Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University)   
    * Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (KDnuggets)   
    * Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo! Research)   
    * Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology , Bombay)   
    * Padhraic Smyth (University of California at Irvine)   
    * Ramakrishnan Srikant (Google Research)   
    * Xindong Wu (University of Vermont)   
    * Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)   
      
   About ACM SIGKDD Service Award   
   ACM SIGKDD Service Award is the highest service award in   
   the field of knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). It   
   is conferred on one individual or one group for their   
   outstanding professional services and contributions to the   
   KDD field. Services recognized include significant   
   contributions to the activities of professional KDD societies   
   and conferences, leading organizations or projects that   
   contribute technically to the field as a whole, furthering   
   education of students, researchers and practitioners of   
   KDD, funding R&D activities of the KDD community,   
   professional volunteer services in disseminating technical   
   information to the field, and contributions to society at   
   large through applications of KDD concepts to improve   
   global medical care, education, disaster/crisis   
   management, environment, etc. The award includes a   
   plaque and a check for $2,500 and will be presented at the   
   Opening Plenary Session of the annual ACM SIGKDD   
   International Conference on KDD.   
      
   About ACM SIGKDD   
   ACM SIGKDD, ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge   
   Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), is the premier global   
   professional organization for researchers and professionals   
   dedicated to the advancement of the science and practice   
   of knowledge discovery and data mining. It established the   
   Innovation and Service Awards to recognize outstanding   
   technical and service contributions to the KDD field.   
      
   About ACM   
   The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the   
   world's largest educational and scientific computing   
   society, uniting computing educators, researchers and   
   professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and   
   address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the   
   computing profession's collective voice through strong   
   leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and   
   recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the   
   professional growth of its members by providing   
   opportunities for life-long learning, career development,   
   and professional networking.   
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