The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM’24). The conference was held in Houston, Texas on April 18-20th.

This conference provides a platform for researchers tackling issues in data mining to showcase their work in a peer-reviewed setting. It’s an opportunity for graduate students to connect and receive input on their research through the doctoral forum. Individuals new to the field learn about research by listening to invited speakers, attending presentations and tutorials, and participating in focused workshops. 

Best Paper Award: Data Silences: How to Unsilence the Uncertainties in Data Science

• Michael Muller, IBM Research
• Rachel Bellamy, IBM Research

2nd Place Award: Foundation Models for Spatiotemporal Tasks in the Physical World

• Zhe Jiang, University of Florida
• Zelin Xu, University of Florida
• Yu Wang, University of Florida

3rd Place Award: Blue Sky: Multilingual, Multimodal Domain Independent Deception Detection

• Dainis Boumber, University of Houston
• Rakesh M. Verma, University of Houston
• Fatima Zahra Qachfar, University of Houston

CCC provides travel awards to the winners. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference!

Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track. For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Blue Sky Ideas track — visit our website.