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Contact Information
CIS Department
Ahuja College of Business
Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44115
rob.schumaker@gmail.com
Phone: (216) 687-4760

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Founder & President,
The Schumaker Foundation

Textual Financial Stock Prediction (AZFinText)
Interest in Textual Financial Stock Prediction exploded during the summer of 2010. Stories on Dr. Schumaker's work were popping up worldwide in venues such as the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswire, Slashdot, MIT's Technology Review, Business Day, Motherboard TV and reprinted amongst many thousands of other media outlets worldwide. Listed below are some of the highlights of AZFinText.

	Valentino-DeVries, J., (2010). Using Artificial Intelligence to Digest News, Trade Stocks. The Wall Street Journal June 21, 2010
	Mims, C., (2010). AI that Picks Stocks Better than the Pros. Technology Review June 10, 2010.
	Rosenberger, J., (2010). Computer Scientists Beat U.S. Stock Market. Communications of the ACM 53(8):20
	Subsin, N., (2009). Algorithmic and Trading Products Newsletter. Dow Jones Newswire May 2009

In December 2011, Rob's chapter Predicting Price Movement from Financial News Articles is set to be released in Information Systems for Global Financial Markets by IGI Global. This chapter is the culmination of AZFinText research and explores areas of what article terms are most effective, which industry sectors are easiest to predict and how to couple a textual financial news system with existing quantitative stock selection strategies.

Sports Data Mining

In the Fall of 2010, Dr. Schumaker's Sports Data Mining book was published. This book provides an overview of current state-of-the-art practices in data acquisition, mining, knowledge extraction and visualization techniques that are being implemented by sports enthusiasts and professional sports organizations alike. Aside from the book, interest in Dr. Schumaker's Sports Data Mining research culminated in several interviews, highlights of which are listed below.

	Ingebretsen, M., (2010). AI on the Team Bench. IEEE Intelligent Systems 25(6):10-11.
	Ingebretsen, M., (2009). Intelligent Handicapping. IEEE Intelligent Systems 24(2):6-7.

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