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CONTACT: Virginia Gold
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Award Honors Best Young Computer Professional for Work on Association Rules New York, May 12, 2003 -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Dr. Ramakrishnan Srikant of IBM's Almaden Research Center with the Grace Murray Hopper Award for his seminal work on a key data mining technique that automatically discovers all significant associations present in a dataset. This technique, known as association rules, has been widely used in applications ranging from market basket analysis to reducing failures in telecommunications orders. The award also recognizes Dr. Srikant's work on developing data mining techniques that use randomization to preserve privacy at the individual level, while allowing the building of accurate data mining models at the aggregate level. Dr. Srikant will receive the Hopper Award, which is given to the outstanding young computer professional of the year and carries a $5,000 prize. Dr. Srikant has had a substantial impact on both the commercial sector and the research community. He was a key architect for IBM Intelligent Miner, widely recognized as the most technically sophisticated data mining product. Dr. Srikant's work on mining association rules, which identify relationships between two or more items, has been extensively cited and has become part of the core syllabus in database and data mining courses. Dr. Srikant earned his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He was program co-chair of the 2001 ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). He was named an IBM Research Division Master Inventor in 1999, and has received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his contributions to the design and development of Intelligent Miner. ACM will present the Hopper Award to Dr. Srikant at its annual ACM Awards Banquet June 7, at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center in San Diego, CA, in conjunction with the Federated Computing Research Conference. The Grace Murray Hopper Award honors the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made. Financial support for the award is provided by Unisys. About ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals and students. ACM serves its global membership by delivering cutting edge technical information and transferring ideas from theory to practice. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading Portal to Computing Literature. With its world-class journals and magazines, dynamic special interest groups, numerous conferences, workshops and electronic forums, ACM is a primary resource for the information technology field. For additional information about ACM, visit our web site at www.acm.org. |
