On Wednesday, October 1, in conjunction with the Fall Technical Conference, SPES will be sponsoring a short course by Heath Rushing entitled "Text mining and unstructured data analysis methods". Other short courses at the FTC include “Definitive Screening Designs” by Bradley Jones and Christopher Nachtsheim, “Effective Presentations for statisticians” by Jennifer van Mullekom and Stephanie DeHart, and a course on Reliability by William Meeker. More information can be obtained at the accompanying URL below.