Center Director Receives 2009 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award

Padhraic Smyth, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems, has been awarded the 2009 Innovation Award from the Association of Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). Smyth is recognized for his contributions to both the theory and application of probabilistic and statistical approaches to data mining. For more details, see the award citation.