Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro (born 7 April 1958) is a
Early life
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In March 1974, Piatetsky emigrated to
In 1984, his first paper was published in SIGMOD, proving that secondary index selection is NP-complete by reducing it to a set cover problem.[7] In his dissertation, he proved that the greedy method for set cover has a lower bound of 1 - 1/e ~ 63% of the optimal.[8]
Career
He joined
In 1997, he left GTE to join Knowledge Stream Partners (KSP), where he was Director and later Vice President and Chief Scientist.[11] In April 2000, KSP was acquired by Xchange, Inc.,[12] where Piatetsky served as VP and Chief Scientist.[11]
Piatetsky left Xchange in May 2001 to become a self-employed consultant and focus on KDnuggets.[13]
KDD and SIGKDD
In 1989, Piatetsky organized the first workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD-89), held at
Piatetsky organized the next two KDD workshops, in 1991 and 1993.
In 1997, Piatetsky and Ismail Parsa initiated the
The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the leading research conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, according to Microsoft Academic search[17] and Google Scholar.[18] The 21st ACM SIGKDD conference was held in Sydney, Australia in August 2015.
KDnuggets
In 1993, Piatetsky started Knowledge Discovery Nuggets (KDnuggets) as a newsletter to connect researchers who attended the KDD-93 workshop. With the emergence of the Internet and Mosaic, he and Chris Matheus eventually created the website: Knowledge Discovery Mine,[19] hosted at GTE Labs. The newsletter served as an unofficial publication of KDD workshops. When Piatetsky left GTE Labs, he created the KDnuggets website,[20] with the mission of covering the field with short, concise "nuggets". The resource started as a directory for the subjects of data mining and data science, including Software, jobs, academic positions, CFP (calls for papers), companies, courses, datasets, education, meetings, publications and webcasts.
KDnuggets' main focus is to cover the fields of Business Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science, including
@KDnuggets Twitter was
- Voted the Best Big Data Tweeter by Big Data Republic (2013)
- In Top 10 Most Influential Brands on Big Data, Onalytica, May 2017.
- No. 1 in Agilience Top Authorities in Machine Learning, Nov 2016.
- No. 1 in Agilience Top Authorities for Data Mining, No. 2 for Data Science, Nov 2016.
- No. 3 in AI Intelligence & Machine Learning: Top 100 Influencers and Brands, Onalytica, Mar 2016.
- No. 4 in Big Data 2016: Top 100 Influencers, Onalytica, Feb 2016.
- In InformationWeek Twitter Top 10 Data Science, Analytics, And BI Feeds, Jan 2016
In February 2015, Piatetsky and Data ScienceTech Institute announced a partnership and he became an Honorary Member of its Scientific Advisory Board.[22]
Research and publications
In 1991, Piatetsky and William (Bud) Frawley edited their first book Knowledge Discovery in Databases. In 1996, Piatetsky, Usama Fayyad, Padhraic Smyth, and Ramasamy Uthurusamy edited a follow-up Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.[23]
Piatetsky also helped launch and co-edit the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal.[citation needed] He authored 9 edited books and collections and over 60 technical papers, articles and book chapters, mostly focusing on data mining and knowledge discovery.[citation needed].
Recognition
- 1984, NYU Award for Best Dissertation in Computer Sciences, PhD Thesis: "A Self-Organizing Database System - A Different Approach to Query Optimization".
- 1985, NYU Award for Best Dissertation in all Natural Sciences (1985).
- 1995, Leslie H. Warner award—GTE's highest for technical achievement—for the KEFIR system.
- 2000, First SIGKDD Service Award, for contributions to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.[1]
- 2007 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, for major contributions to data mining field, 2007.[24]
References
- ^ a b c d "Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro - SIGKDD Service Award". ACM SigKDD. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro has received the first ACM SIGKDD Service award for starting the KDD conferences and contributions to the KDD community, including KDnuggets newsletter. Dr. Piatetsky-Shapiro is the founder of the Knowledge Discovery in Database conference series (KDD, now the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).
- ^ "Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro". www.kdnuggets.com.
- ^ "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, In Memoriam" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (10): 1260–1275, 2010
- ^ Tel Aviv University obituary Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Expert interview: Exciting and Worrisome Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Fetched on 2020-02-26)
- ^ NYU CS PhDs thesis list
- ^ Accurate estimation of the number of tuples satisfying a condition
- ^ A self-organizing database system - a different approach to query optimization
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- ISBN 978-3-642-28046-7.
- ^ a b "Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro". www.kdnuggets.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ "Yahoo - Exchange Applications, Now Doing Business as Xchange, Inc., Acquires eCRM Firm Knowledge Stream Partners for $52 million". www.kdnuggets.com.
- ^ "About KDnuggets, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining and Data Science leader". www.kdnuggets.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
- ^ "KDD-98 Schedule". www.kdnuggets.com. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^ Membershsip, SIGKDD. "About SIGKDD". kdd.org.
- ^ Blog, SIGKDD. "SIGKDD : KDD Cup 1997 : Direct marketing for lift curve optimization". www.kdd.org. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
- ^ "Top conferences in data mining". Microsoft Academic Search. Archived from the original on 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^ "Data Mining & Analysis". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
2. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
(Ranked #1 is a journal, not a conference.) - ^ KDD Nugget 94:8
- ^ "Machine Learning, Data Science, Big Data, Analytics, AI". www.kdnuggets.com.
- ^ "Data Mining Course". www.kdnuggets.com.
- ^ "Data ScienceTech Institute celebrates Dr Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro as Honorary Member of Our Scientific Advisory Board".
- ISBN 0262560976.
- ^ Wu, Xindong (2007-09-28). "2007 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award: Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro". IEEE ICDM. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
Dr. Piatetsky-Shapiro is the founder of the Knowledge Discovery in Database conference series (KDD, now the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).
- Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers, edited by Mohamed Medhat Gaber