Bern Carey, the director of Northern Arizona University's Center for Data Insight, will present a seminar on data mining, also known as knowledge discovery in very large data bases, at 11 a.m. Nov. 12, in the auditorium of UNLV's Harry Reid Center.

According to Stephen Rice, UNLV's associate provost for research, data mining is an emerging area concerned with finding previously unknown patterns and relationships in very large data base sets. These new patterns and relationships provide critical knowledge for support systems, modeling of physical processes, and development of predictive models based on past behavior.

Rice says this new field is the result of developments in machine learning, database systems, statistics, computer networks, parallel processing, and graphic visualization of complex patterns. The integration of these various disciplines into mature computational systems forms the basis of data mining.

In his lecture, Carey will review developments in the field of data mining and discuss companies that provide products to use in data mining. He will also discuss the use of data mining at the applied research center at NAU and share examples of data mining successfully applied to different business and technical problems.

For more information, call Rice at 895-4240.