Are you interested in shaping the future of transport, energy and water use in Milton Keynes? Hear stimulating talks from our guest speakers about some innovative community initiatives, and get involved in the debate for change in MK. MK:Smart Citizen Lab is part of the MK:Smart project, a smart city initiative led by the Open…
As National Women’s month comes to a close we’re reflecting on a couple of our successful women at KMi. Among other projects, both women are involved in engaging and empowering the public through their research. While Ale inspires students with science and helps to provide young people with scientific literacy, Anna helps to inform citizens…
The first international workshop on Machine Learning and Learning Analytics took place last Tuesday 25th March, as part of LAK14. The goal of the workshop was to discuss what benefits machine learning techniques can bring to the field of learning analytics. It was intended as both an introduction to the field for those wishing to start…
MK:Smart was on Milton Keynes Council’s winning team at the inaugural Milton Keynes Business Achievement Awards held on 20 March at stadiummk. KMi’s Jane Whild joined MK Council’s Geoff Snelson and Sarah Gonsalves to collect the Environmental and Corporate Sustainability Award from the host, BBC Breakfast presenter, Bill Turnbull. The Open University’s Pro Vice Chancellor,…
MK:Smart was on Milton Keynes Council’s winning team at the inaugural Milton Keynes Business Achievement Awards held on 20 March at stadiummk. KMi’s Jane Whild joined MK Council’s Geoff Snelson and Sarah Gonsalves to collect the Environmental and Corporate Sustainability Award from the host, BBC Breakfast presenter, Bill Turnbull. The Open University’s Pro Vice Chancellor,…
CORE participated in the annual Learn About Fair at the OU, that took place on 26 February 2014. The CORE team had the chance to present CORE vision to a wide range of visitors including PhD students, associate lecturers, developers and other academic staff. During the fair CORE had the opportunity to demonstrate CORE applications, including…
OU Analyse participated at the Learn About Fair, which focused on educational technologies used for learning and teaching and relevant research. The fair took place at The Open University on the 26 February. The project team demonstrated new machine-learning based methods for identifying early on students at risk of failing. A list of ‘at risk’…
The inaugural plenary meeting of the MK:Smart project was hosted at The Open University on the 22 January. All partners were involved in a project update that outlined the progress since the grant award. The design of the data hub is nearing completion and the initial installation is on target. The demonstrator work packages in…
Vanessa Lopez passed her viva with only minor modifications two weeks after another KMi student, Fouad Zablith, also passed his viva. Vanessa’s thesis “Open Question Answering on the large, distributed and heterogeneous Semantic Web” is the result on her topical and timely research. One side effect of Vanessa’s research is an implemented and working question-answering…
KMi professor Stefan Rueger gave the closing keynote of this year’s i-KNOW conference at Graz’s congress hall. i-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management and knowledge technologies in Europe and has a tradition of bringing together more than 500 leading researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge management. Rueger’s talk “Knowledge discovery in the web:…
