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The IEEE Computer Society  is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals with over 85,000 members. Founded in 1946, and the largest of IEEE’s 38 societies, the Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computing and information technology. The IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) provides access to more than 330,000 articles and papers from more than 3,500 conference proceedings and 27 Computer Society periodicals. The Conference Publishing Services division produces more than 250 conference proceedings, CD-ROMs, and multimedia each year. CS Press publishes full-length technical books on cutting-edge topics through a partnership with John Wiley and Sons, as well as electronic products (ReadyNotes) and curated article collections (EssentialSets) under its own imprint. With about 40 percent of its members living and working outside the United States, the Computer Society fosters international communication, cooperation, and information exchange. It monitors and evaluates curriculum accreditation guidelines through its ties with the US Computing Sciences Accreditation Board and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

KDnuggets is a leading site on analytics, data mining, and data science, with over 50,000 unique monthly visitors, featured on CNN and Forbes. KDnuggets has over 22,000 subscribers via email, twitter, RSS, Facebook, and Linkedin, including thousands of top-level analytic professionals. KDnuggets News  has been widely recognized as the leading newsletter on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. It is published 2-3 times a month, usually on Wednesday. KDNuggets News  has been published since 1993 and subscriptions are free.

m6d ’s industry-best marketing technology platform revolutionizes the way brands think about their audiences and powerfully enhances their ability to find new customers. By capturing a unique brand signal from existing customers, and scoring prospects based on their digital journeys through millions of websites, m6d offers a real-time advertising solution called ProspectRank™ that delivers relevant audiences to marketers. The team that invented Social Targeting™ has developed a platform that is a marketer’s dream for audience-based buying, leaving in its wake the limitations of traditional marketing. m6d boasts the industry’s most decorated data science team and most experienced media technology management, who together have developed, refined and relentlessly improved its innovative technology over four years in market with over 400 top-tier brands. Recently recognized as Crain’s 23rd Best Place to Work in New York, m6d has offices throughout the U.S. and in the UK. More info at www.m6d.com, or follow @m6d_inc.

PrecisionDemand  is the leading provider of ad targeting, tracking and reporting solutions for television advertisers. PrecisionDemand analyzes over 36 million Set Top Box events per day, 408 billion customer facts and 774 million ad airings, to target television campaigns for some of the largest companies in the United States. PD's targeting technology searches for the highest predicted concentration of buyers per million impressions in upcoming television programs at the lowest predicted cost. PD's Tracking technology measures the ROI generated from TV advertising each day. PrecisionDemand's systems are compatible with existing broadcast television hardware and enable intelligent bidding on 240 million television ad positions annually.

VigLink  maximizes earnings for tens of thousands of publishers and works with more than 30,000 merchants, processing billions of page views and over three hundred million clicks every month.