KMi’s Director; Prof Harith Alani, was interviewed by The National newspaper who sought his views on the role of misinformation in fueling the recent riots across the UK. Harith and his team in KMi have been researching misinformation for many years, focusing on the patterns in which misinformation and their fact-check spread online. Misinformation played…
The Polifonia project has recently joined forces with the EuropeanaTech community and the Europeana PRO platform to further the digital harmonization of musical heritage knowledge. Through this partnership, a webinar took place featuring KMi’s Alba Morales Tirado, who discussed the MEETUPS pilot, and touched upon the critical infrastructure aspects, including the Ecosystem and Data Management. …
In a groundbreaking study published in the prestigious British Journal of Educational Technologies, KMi researchers have introduced a cutting-edge Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Learning Analytics (LA) dashboard designed to tackle awarding gaps in higher education. This innovative tool, co-created with diverse educational stakeholders, aims to transform how institutions across the UK, including the Open…
C&C (The School of Computing and Communication) and KMi arranged a research festival designed to celebrate the research and innovations in these two units with the STEM Faculty, here at The Open University. The event showcased a taster of their latest research highlights and innovations. This face-to-face event provided a platform for networking and knowledge…
KMi’s research group Shifting Power participated in the International Conference Series on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI) 2024, held from June 10th to 14th in Malmö, Sweden with a workshop event. This 2nd Ecology of AI (EcAI) 2024 workshop aimed to extend the dialogue from last year’s successful event, further exploring the extensive impacts of AI…
The OU’s newly created AI Steering Group recently ran its first official event titled “AI, Ethics and Law – your questions answered” which was very successful with 315 attendees and 200 questions submitted. The event had three main parts and was supported by two KMi staff. Introduction – What is AI and Why It’s a…
After four years of diligent work, the Polifonia project team, including 10 partners from Italy, the Netherlands, France, England, and Ireland, is proud to unveil the Polifonia Ecosystem, which publishes the complete collection of software and data outputs of the project. The Polifonia project, led by the University of Bologna (Italy), established Knowledge Graphs as…
Vaclav Bayer and Riccardo Pala have been chosen for the Product Builder Programme, powered by Barclays Eagle Labs and funded by the UK Government. This initiative, delivered by Plexal, provides a unique opportunity to design a digital product, test it with users, validate the idea with industry experts, and prepare it for market launch. This…
On June 11th, KMi hosted the highly anticipated GenAI & Amazon Bedrock Immersion Day, a comprehensive, one-day event dedicated to exploring the transformative capabilities of Generative AI (GenAI) and Amazon Bedrock. With 18 attendees joining us in person and 2 participating virtually, the event was a remarkable success, offering a blend of hands-on learning, expert…
Doctors Enrico Daga, Francesco Osborne, Angelo Salatino, Prof John Domingue and PhD student Marco Ratta recently attended the 2024 edition of the Extended Semantic Web Conference, where they showcased their significant contributions to the field through various research papers and workshops as well as contributing to the leadership of the entire ESWC Community. Although Prof. Motta…
