[LIS-Forum] 15th ICADL 2013- Inaugural Keynote by Dr. Rakesh Agrawal-very well known Data Mining Expert and Microsoft Technical Fellow at the MSR Search Labs, USA

[Shalini Urs]

Dear LIS Professionals,

One more reason to be part of the premier Digital Library Conference and
retool and reposition!

ICADL 2013 is happy to announce its  Inaugural Keynote speaker!

The Inaugural keynote at the ICADL 2013 on December 9, 2013 will be given
by Dr. Rakesh Agrawal‹Microsoft Technical Fellow at the MSR Search Labs,
who is well known for developing fundamental data mining concepts and
technologies and pioneering key concepts in data privacy, including
Hippocratic Database, Sovereign Information Sharing, and
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. Rakesh's new quest is to use Internet to
bring the benefits of computing to the underserved. To know more about the
speaker http://rakesh.agrawal-family.com

He is the recipient of the ACM-SIGKDD First Innovation Award, ACM-SIGMOD
Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award, ACM-SIGMOD Test of Time Award, VLDB 10-Yr
Most Influential Paper Award, and the Computerworld First Horizon Award.
He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of ACM,
and a Fellow of IEEE. Scientific American named him to the list of 50 top
scientists and technologists in 2003.

Prior to joining Microsoft in March 2006, Rakesh was an IBM Fellow and led
the Quest group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Earlier, he was with
the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill from 1983 to 1989. He also worked for 3
years at India's premier company, the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. He
received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He also holds a B.E. degree in
Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-Roorkee, and atwo-year
Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the National
Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Bombay.

IBM's commercial data mining product, Intelligent Miner, grew out of Dr.
Agrawal©ös work. His research has been incorporated into other IBM
products, including DB2 Mining Extender, DB2 OLAP Server and WebSphere
Commerce Server, and has influenced several othercommercial and academic
products, prototypes and applications. His other technical contributions
include Polyglot object-oriented type system, Alertactive database system,
Ode (Object database and environment), Alpha (extension of relational
databases with generalized transitive closure), Nest distributed system,
transaction management, and database machines.

Rakesh has been granted more than 60 patents. He has published more than
150 research papers, many of them considered seminal. He has written the
1st as well as 2nd highest cited of all papers in the fields of databases
and data mining (13th and 15th most citedacross all computer science as of
Februray 2007 in CiteSeer). Wikipedia lists one of his papers as one of
the most influential database papers. His papers have been cited more than
6500 times, with more than 15 of them receiving more than 100 citations
each. He is the most cited author in the field of database systems. His
work has been featured in New York Times Year in Review, New York Times
Science section, and several other publications.
For updates and more details : http://www.icadl2013.org.in
<http://www.icadl2013.org.in/>

See you at ICADL 2013!

Shalini
--
Dr. Shalini R.Urs
Chair, ICADL 2013
&

Executive Director and Professor
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore
Manasagangotri
Mysore - 570006
Phone :  + 91 821 2514699
Fax      :  +  91 821
2519209 
www.isim.ac.in




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