UC San Diego Data Mining Competition - 2008

The UC Data Mining Contest offers students a chance to test their data mining skill on a real-world data set.
All undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doc researchers studying full-time, in residence at an accredited college or university may enter and compete for prizes.
Teams will compete to build a system that correctly classifies data from a scientific experiment.

See the datasets page for details.
There are many reasons to participate:
1. Practical experience is the best way to learn.
2. The winner of each contest/division will receive prize money ($8000 purse) and, new this year, membership in the Academic Partner Program for Xpress-MP.
3. Success in the competition looks great on a resume (graduate admissions, jobs, fellowships).
Participating is easy, and we encourage everyone to try!
The flyer for this competition.
The contest forum is now up and running.