In a keynote address to an International Policy Forum on the Internet and Society at Oxford University this evening, KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt proclaimed E-Learning to be a “quaint term we won't be using when we reconvene this meeting in a few years”. In a presentation of “what works”, “what fails”, and “what's next”,…
The First European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2003) took place on 21-26 July in Cercedilla (Spain). The event was the first opportunity anywhere in the world for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical and practical skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing…
The BBC News website's technology section today featured a big article on the KMi Live AudioBlog that is running to support Lorenzo's Everest adventure. Whilst we have already had good regional coverage for this work – with newspaper and radio pieces – this is the first big national showing. The website we produced to support…
A team from the Wellcome Trust visited KMi this morning as part of a general visit to the Open University. The group today were from the Medicine, Society and History (MSH) Division of the Trust. The Division aims to foster understanding of medicine and its role in society in the past, present and future. So…
Today we hosted a visit by the Milton Keynes Mayor, Cllr Alan Pugh. The Mayor was shown a number of demonstrations of the work we do with the local community. These included the Clutch Club, the work with the local schools and the AEC project with the Kettering NHS Trust.
With the official signing of the OntoWeb contract The Open University has formally joined the OntoWeb European Thematic Network. The goal of OntoWeb is to co-ordinate European research on the Semantic Web, Tim Berners Lee’s vision for supporting agent interoperability and providing logical inferences over the World Wide Web. OntoWeb currently comprises 81 organizations, drawn…
Mme Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Education and Culture Europe and Sovereignty, recently acknowledged our work by referring to the OU as “the leading e-University in Europe, a global leader in educational software and a pioneer in multimedia in raising educational standards.” Mme Reding’s praise came during her invited 2001 Jean Monnet Lecture last week,…
The Wall Street Journal has chosen KMi as the source of key ideas for a feature section on e-commerce and e-learning in its March 12th 2001 edition. WSJ writer David Hamilton interviewed KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt, along with other e-learning and cognitive science experts including John Seely Brown of Xerox and Don Norman of…
The OU’s first ever Virtual Degree Ceremony, featuring an Honourary Degree Award to ‘Father of the Web’ Tim Berners-Lee, is available for replay from the KMi Stadium website. But don’t expect to see a conventional ‘webcast’. On the contrary, the Virtual Degree Ceremony, as conceived by KMi’s Dr. Peter Scott, incorporates an engaging wholistic environment…
No, it’s not Texas rockers ZZ Top, but our own Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal who is now directing 100% European-funded projects worth a combined total of over £1M to KMi. ZZ’s latest chart-topper comes in the form of a European Framework V project entitled ‘Clockwork: Creating Learning Organizations by means of Contextualised Knowledge-Rich Work Artefacts’. Clockwork,…
