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KDD Cup 1997: Results

On behalf of the Knowledge Discovery Cup committee, I am pleased to announce the winners of this year's KDD-CUP.

The GOLD MINER award goes to two contestants this year:

Charles Elkan from University of California, San Diego
with his software BNB, Boosted Naive Bayesian Classifier;
and
Urban Science Applications, Inc.
with their software gain, Direct Marketing Selection System.

These two contestants are jointly sharing the 1st and 2nd place.

The BRONZE MINER award goes to the runner-up:

Silicon Graphics, Inc
with their software MineSet.

The awards will be presented at KDD-97 in Newport Beach, CA on August 16 between 5pm and 6pm. The testing methodology will also be presented during the ceremony.

Thank you for participating.

Ismail Parsa.