Jon Linney

KMi Rounders

Fun (and muscle fatigue) was had last Friday, when a small group of the ‘fittest’ and most able people in KMi met on the playing fields of Walton Hall. Our illustrious Director joined us for the first half-hour, although no proof of this exists as he left before the photo-shoot, stating that he had important…

Enigma photographs uncovered

As part of the project with the locally based Bletchley Park Trust, a year or so ago we had the chance to take some detailed photographs of a German WW2 Enigma Machine. It was their 4 Rotor Marine Enigma Machine to be exact, used to send and receive orders or messages using the complex Enigma…

Drug Safety Education Kiosk Release

The Hazard Alley Safety Centre based in Milton Keynes has worked with KMi on a number of interesting new media projects. Late in 2002 the Centre joined with the Local Education Authority Drugs Advisory team to commission the KMi Centre for New Media to work with them on a drug safety education project. Together, we…

You’ll be aMAZEd at this game!

Welcome to the next installment in our series of experiments with Flash MX server multiplayer games. Essentially, with this game-model we are exploring simple, scalable, abstract systems where collaboration makes real sense. This one is us thinking-aloud about the applicability of Flash MX Server discussion components in learning domains. Look out for voice or voice/video…

This game stinks!

We dont seem to have as much fun as we used to folks? So, to while away those boring minutes over lunch, why not hold your nose and check this pong! (Hopefully you will even understand the pun). On the CNM games project page (see the link below) you will see that we have released…

Safety Centre Website launched

KMi supports a range of community-based initiatives by seeing how Knowledge Media technologies can be applied locally. The latest of these launched its new site today. Milton Keynes hosts the UKs very first Safety Centre – a place, known as “Hazard Alley”, which is a purpose-built interactive education centre for children. The centre is the…

Enigma machine visits KMi

As part of an on-going collaborative project between KMi’s Centre for New Media, and the Bletchley Park Trust, an original Enimga encoding machine was brought into the centre to be photographed for a variety of multimedia and web materials. Pictured is Peter Wescombe, a trustee of the park, demonstrating the function of this Kreigsmarine (German…

sport4all.com enters the football arena

Tuesday 17th saw a visit by representatives of Ipswich town football club to discuss a possible involvement in KMi’s sport4all.com project. Still in its prototype form, the sport4all.com website is to provide on-line sports coaching for a mainly younger audience. The site also includes a forum, listings of local sports related information and clubs from…