Matthew Rowe and Harith Alani won the Best Paper Award at the Web Science Conference 2011, located in Koblenz, Germany, for their paper in collaboration with Marcel Karnstedt, Jeffrey Chan and Conor Hayes from National University of Ireland, Galway titled ‘The Effect of User Features on Churn in Social Networks’. The paper explored how ‘churn’…
Alan Fletcher and Mathieu D’Aquin met with New Philanthropy Capital on 15th April to further discuss the funding model for this joint project with OUBS. The project is still being developed and it may be some time before a decision is made on the funding. Related Links: http://www.philanthropycapital.org/ http://intranet.open.ac.uk/oubs/infostore/index.shtml
KMi PhD student Tom Heath features in a new podcast released today, where he talks about his research at KMi, Revyu.com, and Linked Data, with Paul Miller of Birmingham-based technology company Talis. Paul Miller writes: "In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Tom Heath about his Ph.D research at the Open University’s…
Yanna Vogiazou is currently visiting the MIT Media Lab for two weeks to work with Judith DonathÂ’s Sociable Media Group. On Wednesday 28 July, she gave a talk about her PhD work in the Media Lab, which was attended by people working on various areas within the Lab, including Donath and her group, Henry Lieberman,…
