thx for the comprehensive answer. Many PhD students would be glad to be able to publish results and gather credit points that way.
You can really take KDD CUP (http://www.kdd2007.com/kddcup.html) as a good example. Besides academia, many serious practitioners participated (and won prices).
Also consider checking out The Penn-Lehmann Automated Trading Project http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/projects/pat.html
You can really take KDD CUP (http://www.kdd2007.com/kddcup.html) as a good example. Besides academia, many serious practitioners participated (and won prices).
Also consider checking out The Penn-Lehmann Automated Trading Project http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/projects/pat.html