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* PBC Brain Connectivity Challenge
* 2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Data Mining
* Pittsburgh Brain Competition Brain Connectivity Challenge

Brief summary:

The competition involves applying data mining to map the “cables of the human brain” mapping ~300,000 fiber streamlines into

20-50 cables or tracts. It involves two challenges 1) Supervised learning to match the categorization of an expert, and 2)

Unsupervised learning of within and between subject segmentation. A short YouTube presentation details the competition

including illustrations of the fiber tracts. Details are available at the web site braincompetition.org. All entrants will

be able to compare their scores relative to all the other completed entrants. Awards will be announced at ICDM December

2009. They will include: Supervised Learning Match Expert Award $2000 (US); Unsupervised Learning Within and Between

Subject Award; and possibly a Contest Crown Award (if a group scores top in both award categories including $1000 and the

option to have the team leader have their brain scanned to create a fiber map of their brain).

Key dates:
Data training data available: Sept. 14, 2009
Full data: Oct. 1, 2009
Results due: Nov. 2, 2009
Write-ups: Nov. 6, 2009

Important links:
Competition website: http://www.braincompetition.org
Youtube Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIDv4FLRg_4
ICDM 2009: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ICDM09/
Competition Full description: http://schweb1.lrdc.pitt.edu/pbc/2009b/media/IEEE_IDCM_PBC_BrainCompetitionRules.pdf

Contact email: pbc(at)pitt.edu

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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '09) will take place on Marina Del Rey, California, USA during Monday, June 8 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

DCOSS 2009 is a highly selective conference and features a single track of 26 papers reporting on state-of-the-art research on:
- Algorithms and Analysis
- Applications and Systems
- Signal Processing and Information Theory

The advance program includes the schedule and titles of each presented paper.
http://www.dcoss.org/program.php

Please see http://www.dcoss.org/ for detailed information on the keynote addresses to be presented at DCOSS'09. Keynote addresses to be presented at DCOSS'09 include:

"Compressive Sensing: an Overview",
Emmanuel J. Candes, Calfornia Institute of Technology

"Smart Grid - Convergence for a Future Energy Transmission and Distribution
System with Wireless communications, Sensors/Monitors, RFID and I.T."
Rajit Gadh, University of California at Los Angeles

The conference is co-located with seven closely related workshops, which will be held Wednesday, June 10:

- Third International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for
Wireless Sensor Networks (LOCALGOS)
- Second International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE)
- Second Workshop on Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WEWSN)
- Third International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS)
- International Workshop on Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks
- First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from
Sensors and Streams
- International Workshop on Integration of the Real World and the Future
Internet (RWI)

More workshop information is available at: http://www.dcoss.org/workshops.php

The DCOSS program includes a poster session, a demo session, and a work-in-progress session, at 6pm on Monday, June 8.

A government funding session will be led by Anita J. La Salle, Program Director, Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), at the National Science Foundation. This session will be held 5:00pm - 6:30pm on Tuesday, June 9, 2008.

The conference will be held at the MARINA DEL REY MARRIOTT. Discount conference
rates are available through:
http://www.dcoss.org/accommodation.php