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Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D.

Chairman & Founder, Open Insights and Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI @ Northeastern University. First Chief Data Officer at Yahoo!. Former Global CDO, Barclays Bank. Founding Exec Chairman @ Oasis500

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Author: Usama

Articles 
September 9, 2000August 13, 2017

digiMine.com raises $20 million

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment Eastside Business Journal

Kirkland – DigiMine.com, a Kirkland data mining company, has raised $20 million in its second round of funding, led by the Mayfield Fund. DigiMine’s

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Articles 
September 8, 2000September 16, 2016

DigiMine wants to turn data into gold

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

The algorithms and data-mining software created by Usama Fayyad have been used to find volcanoes on Venus and galaxies far, far away. Now the former

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Articles 
September 7, 2000August 14, 2017

A Data Miner Goes for Gold on the Web

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment Business Week Online

Math whiz Usama Fayyad, a NASA and Microsoft vet, is now prospecting with own startup, digiMine. On a chilly Monday morning last March, Usama

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Articles 
September 6, 2000September 16, 2016

DigiMine.com digging for some big bucks

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment Puget Sound Business Journal

DigiMine.com, the Kirkland-based data mining company, is expected to announce a second round of private financing later this week. Founded last February by three

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Patents 
September 5, 2000May 28, 2018

6,115,708 Method for refining the initial conditions for clustering with applications to small and large database clustering

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Abstract As an optimization problem, clustering data (unsupervised learning) is known to be a difficult problem. Most practical approaches use a heuristic, typically gradient-descent,

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Articles 
September 4, 2000December 19, 2017

Local startup carves niche in emerging field of ‘data mining’

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment Eastside Business Journal

KIRKLAND – For a man born one block away from the ruins of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia, Usama Fayyad doesn’t come across as a

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Book Chapters 
September 1, 2000September 16, 2016

“Integration of Data Mining with Database Technology” Amir Netz, Surajit Chaudhuri, Jeff Bernhardt, Usama Fayyad. VLDB 2000, Pro. of 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pp. 719-722, Morgan Kaufmann, Cairo, Egypt, September (2000).

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Technical Tutorials 
September 1, 2000September 16, 2016

3 Hour Tutorial – Usama M. Fayyad, Surajit Chadhuri, and Paul Bradley, VLDB 2000, The 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 10-14, 2000.

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Articles 
August 16, 2000August 20, 2017

New Top Officers

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

Smarterville Inc., a Seattle-based children’s media Web company, yesterday named Peter Doctorow, a former president of Knowledge Adventure, president and chief executive officer. digiMine,

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Articles 
August 16, 2000August 20, 2017

digiMine Expands Legal End of Management Team

Posted By: Usama 0 Comment internet.com

DigiMine has announced the appointment of Bob Bolan to the senior management team as Vice President of Legal Affairs. Bolan will manage all legal

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