Damian Dadswell

OU joins the Turing University Network focussing on data science and AI

The Open University (OU) has joined a growing list of universities in The Alan Turing Institute’s network. The Turing University Network offers UK universities, with an interest in data science and AI, the opportunity to engage and collaborate both with the Institute and its broader networks in academia, industry and the public sector. It will also…

Health and Wellbeing Priority Research Area Website Launched

KMi’s development team recently helped to launch the Open University’s new website for the Health & Wellbeing Priority Research Area. This priority research area brings together the impressive expertise of Open University researchers with their extensive network of local, national and international partners and collaborators across government, industry, policy, practice and the wider academic field….

The kick-off meeting of the IEREST project

I attended (with Chris Valentine via FlashMeeting) the kick-off meeting of the IEREST project, a LLP-funded initiative of some of the most relevant universities in the field of intercultural communication to provide exchange students (mainly within the Erasmus Programme) with real intercultural education, so they have all the tools to get the most out of…

New KMi website launched

As part of the build-up to the 10th anniversary of the Knowledge Media Institute, today the KMi web design team have launched our new website. In our (now nearly) 10 years, the site has been through many design phases, each reflecting the cutting edge in knowledge and media. Our last site concept was strong on…

KMi Director chairs 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004)

The EKAW series of workshops started in 1987 to provide a forum for researchers interested in the acquisition, modelling and engineering of knowledge. Seventeen years later this event is still going strong and indeed the original motivation (engineering knowledge for use in intelligent applications) is even more pressing today than it was all those years…