1. THE PRE-HISTORY OF KDD I have long been interested in topics of machine learning and discovery. For my Ph.D., I studied how a database system could optimize itself through machine learning. In 1986, while working at GTE Laboratories on CALIDA, an intelligent database assistant for integrating multiple databases, I found a query that could be optimized by a factor of 100 if the optimizer knew...

On April 26, 1986, reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl (Ukraine) nuclear power plant exploded. Over the next 10 days, considerable quantities of radionuclides were discharged into the atmosphere (table 1). The passage of the radioactive cloud over Europe led to varying degrees of contamination according to region (figures 1 and 2); the most contaminated regions were in southern Belarus, northern Ukr...

Abstract This paper introduces the Special Issue of Review Industrial Organization that studies impact 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines after 10 years On August 19, 2010, U.S. Department Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued newly updated (2010 Guidelines) [See https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/merger-review/100819hmg.pdf .]. The begin by stating: “These out...