A conversation with the Chinese KDD leaders

In August 2012, the 18 Annual ACM SIGKDD Conference, KDD 2012, will be held in Beijing, China. This is the first time for this flagship knowledge discovery and data mining conference to be held in Asia, and the second time for it to be held outside North America. As before, the KDD 2012 conference will be a central place where researchers, practitioners and students from academia, business, government and industry converge to exchange the newest and most exciting ideas and results in the KDD area. Unlike previous KDD conferences, however, many new faces will be seen, new voices heard, and new perspectives discussed. This is particularly true because this KDD will be held in Beijing, the heartbeat of China’s universities, research institutes, industrial and governmental offices; the epicentre of the rapidly rising and opening China.