SIGKDD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It became an official ACM SIG in 1998.
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SIGKDD has hosted an annual conference - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) - since 1995[1]. Conference papers of each Proceedings of the SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining are published through ACM[2]
In 2012, KDD will take place in Beijing, China.
SIGKDD sponsors the KDD Cup competition every year in conjunction with the annual conference. It is aimed at members of the industry and academia, particularly students, interested in KDD.
The group also annually recognizes members of the KDD community with its Innovation Award and Service Award.
SIGKDD has also published a biannual academic journal titled SIGKDD Explorations since June, 1999. Editors in Chief
Chair
Treasurer
Directors
Former Chairpersons