Talk:Competitions

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-	:We introduced KDD Cup whose goal was to provide competition which would practically evaluate many approaches to the same problem	+	:We introduced KDD Cup whose goal was to provide competition which would practically evaluate many approaches to the same problem.
		+	'''DAC'''
		+	:DAC has a student design contest, with the best submissions going to the technical program.
	== Discussion Begins ==		== Discussion Begins ==

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Starting Comments

Many groups talked about competitions. The committee thought that it was important that the competition by decided by an objective measure, not a beauty contest that could leave many irritated. The Architecture community, for example, recently had a branch prediction competition decided by testing branch predictors on traces not provided while competitors were developing their entries.

SIGKDD

We introduced KDD Cup whose goal was to provide competition which would practically evaluate many approaches to the same problem.

DAC

DAC has a student design contest, with the best submissions going to the technical program.

Discussion Begins