The believers are marching in, as the biggest-ever Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference just occurred this August. More tan 900 industrial practitioners, data miners, computer researchers, and academics came from around the world to attend more than 100 presentations. At the conference, known as "KDD 2000" for short, it was clear that the industrial world is using ever more complex systems for commerce and production, and simultaneously creating ever larger mountains of data in ever shortening intervals -- data potentially of very high value.
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