Impressions of WORLDCOMP 2007 / DMIN 2007

The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) was held in Las Vegas (June 25-28). It is an annual conference with about ten years of history, organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia.

Events that made the conference worth visiting:

• 3-hour tutorial "Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases" by Dr. Eamonn Keogh - besides my own presentation, Eamonn's tutorial was basically the main purpose of travelling from Tallinn to Las Vegas. Therefore I clearly had high hopes and I was not dissapointed - haven't seen so much "power" in a tutorial for a long time. I made myself a promise that I will look more into time series (especially dynamic time warping) after defending my PhD (hopefully some time in next May/June);
• Ad Hoc gap-fillings in DMIN conference by conference co-chair Sven F. Crone were also enjoyable, touching equally academic and industrial insights of the problems.
• Keynote "Innovation in Complex Adaptive Systems" by Professor John H. Holland from University of Michigan;
• Keynote "Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century" by Steve Leibson from Tensilica Inc - nice non-academic presentation which was really inspiring and full of interesting thoughts;
• Banquet keynote "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine" by Dr. Jack Y. Yang from Harvard University;
  

After conference I mainly participated the DMIN social events with my colleague Toomas Kirt, people who know me can find me from about 50% of the social event pictures of DMIN.