Inderpal Bhandari , Ph.D. '90, has founded Virtual Gold Incorporated, which is a data mining company.
Data mining is the automatic extraction of meaningful information from large amounts of data.
Its strategic importance lies in the fact that such automatic analysis is the only viable approach to harnessing the ever-increasing amounts of data in corporate data warehouses that will only continue to accumulate over time. Bhandari successfully proved the practical application of data mining to real world problems when he created the IBM Advanced Scout program, which is used extensively by National Basketball Association coaches to identify hidden patterns in game data that suggest new coaching strategies. Virtual Gold is a vehicle for offering data mining applications to business sectors that are faced with managing ever-larger amounts of data. George M. Cooper , B.S. '29, is retired from CTS Corporation in Elkhart, Ind., where he held the position of executive vice president for production. Dale L. Critchlow , M.S. '54 and Ph.D. '56, is a research professor at the University of Vermont.