The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) was established in 1998 to serve as a resource for research, standards development, and outreach for high performance and distributed data mining and predictive modeling.
The Center focuses on three research areas:
- Scaling algorithms, applications and systems to massive data sets
- Developing algorithms, applications, and systems for mining distributed data.
- Establishing standard languages, protocols, and services for data mining and predictive modeling.
The NCDM is a co-founding member of the Data Mining Group (DMG), which develops the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) and related standards, runs two data mining testbeds (the Terabyte Challenge and the Terra Wide Data Mining Testbed), and has an active outreach program.
The NCDM is organized into several laboratories, including the Laboratory for Advanced Computing (LAC).
The Laboratory for Advanced Computing at the University of Illinois at Chicago was established in 1988. It develops algorithms, software, and systems with a focus on:
- data intensive computing
- distributed computing
- high performance computing and networking
The lab's focus is on data mining and, more generally, data
intensive computing.