Today, 1st March 2007, KMi has a new Director, and the European Association for Technology Enhanced Learning has a new President. "It has been a busy day", explains Peter Scott, "and looks as if it is going to get busier". Peter was appointed by the Open University to take the Knowledge Media Institute into its…
Peter Scott demonstrated a number of KMi’s technologies and innovations to Christopher Beazley, Member of the European Parliament for the Eastern region. Christopher was elected MEP for the Eastern region in 1999. He was MEP for Cornwall and Plymouth from 1984-94. He was Conservative spokesman on Culture and Education. He was Conservative spokesman on Constitutional…
KMi’s Jianhan Zhu has built the winning Enterprise Search engine, beating 22 rivals at the prestigious Fifteenth Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006). TREC, held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, from 15th-17th November 2006, is the premier scientific forum for the comparative evaluation of search engine technology, and this year featured 107 groups participating from 17…
Today KMi hosted a visit by Mme Liu Ying, Director of the Division of Distance Education and Continuing Education at the Chinese Ministry of Education. This event took place in the context of an extended visit by Mme Liu to The Open University, which aims to strengthen the relationship between The Open University and the…
KMi’s Marta Sabou, Mathieu D’Aquin and Enrico Motta have been awarded the best paper prize at the highly prestigious Ontology Matching Workshop (OM-2006), which was held in Athens, US and was co-located with the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006. The development of effective techniques for Ontology Matching is a very important research area…
Sir John Daniel was back in town for the day, and stopped in to KMi for an update on the latest R&D news, accompanied by Ms. Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, Chief of Reform, Innovation and QA at UNESCO. Sir John, who is now President and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning, is a former OU Vice-Chancellor, and…
Renate Myhrstad and Elizabeth Bury of Google Europe (Dublin) came to KMi today as part of a fact-finding visit connected with staff training. The visit was hosted by Open University COROUS Commercial Manager Olga Meglinskaia, and was also attended by Sarah Washe, Di Lambert, and Anna Peachy. KMi's Peter Scott (pictured at right with Renate…
Professor Enrico Motta and Dr John Domingue of the Knowledge Media Institute have received a set of record-breaking awards totaling �4m from the European Commission’s Framework 6 Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. This is the largest ever combined award obtained by KMi associated with a single funding programme. The awards include three Integrated Projects (IPs)…
This week marks the end of Clara 'Cinematic Hypertext' Mancini's 6 years in KMi as a student and research fellow. She takes forward her research programme into a new paradigm for Hypermedia with her new research fellowship in Donia Scott's NLG group, where she will be extending her doctoral work on multimodal coherence relations, in…
Our latest member of staff, Dr Dawei Song, has joined KMi as a Senior Lecturer on September 12th, 2005. Dr Song's research interests include information retrieval, text and data mining, applied logic, and the applications of these techniques to organizational knowledge discovery and management. The appointment of Dr Song takes place in the context of…
