By Alina Gerall, Program Associate, CCC We are excited to announce the winners of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Blue Sky Ideas Track, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)! ICDM 2025 was held in Washington, D.C. on November 12-15, 2025. Now in its 24th year, ICDM is a premier international conference for advancing data mining research, and covers all aspects of data mining, including algorithms, software, systems, and applications. ICDM 2025 Blue Sky Winners First Place Truth Without Comprehension: A BlueSky Agenda for Steering the Fourth Mathematical Crisis Runlong Yu, University of Pittsburgh Xiaowei Jia, University of Pittsburgh   Second Place Navigating Between Explainability and […]

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The Computing Community Consortium announced the winners of the Blue Sky Ideas Track at ICDM 2025, a premier data mining conference. First place went to research on addressing mathematical crises in AI comprehension, second place focused on balancing explainability and extractability in ML services, and third place explored interpretable time series reasoning. The CCC sponsors Blue Sky tracks at computing conferences annually and invites conference organizers to request sponsorship.

Announcing Blue Sky Track Winners at ICDM 2025