Conference on Email and Anti-Spam
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The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) is an annual scientific conference sponsored by Microsoft
on subjects relating to email
use and abuse (the latter being commonly known as "spam
"). The CEAS hosts a concurrent open competition for spam filters
known as the CEAS Live Spam Filter Challenge.
The first conference was held on July 30-31, 2004. Until 2008, the conference site has always been in California
, either Mountain View
or Stanford University
. The web site is also apparently hosted at Stanford University.
The sixth conference of CEAS is held in Mountain View, California. And the seventh conference will be held in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
on subjects relating to email
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
use and abuse (the latter being commonly known as "spam
Spam (electronic)
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately...
"). The CEAS hosts a concurrent open competition for spam filters
E-mail filtering
Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to anti-spam techniques, and to outgoing emails as well...
known as the CEAS Live Spam Filter Challenge.
The first conference was held on July 30-31, 2004. Until 2008, the conference site has always been in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, either Mountain View
Mountain View, California
-Downtown:Mountain View has a pedestrian-friendly downtown centered on Castro Street. The downtown area consists of the seven blocks of Castro Street from the Downtown Mountain View Station transit center in the north to the intersection with El Camino Real in the south...
or Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. The web site is also apparently hosted at Stanford University.
The sixth conference of CEAS is held in Mountain View, California. And the seventh conference will be held in Redmond, Washington.