Talk:Competitions
From Health of Conferences Committee
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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 competitor 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
