KMi members have done it again! For the second year running a paper authored by KMi folks has won the best paper award at the Asian Semantic Web Conference, which was held in Shanghai on 6-9 December 2009. In 2008 the winner was a paper by Silvio Peroni, Enrico Motta, and Mathieu dAquin – see…
So… it may only be a big number, but 10 million downloads is a pretty neat boundary to cross! The 10 Millionth Open University track on iTunes U, a dedicated area within the Apple iTunes Store was downloaded this week. According to our logs, the 10 Millionth track was ‘A French Breakfast’ from the popular…
Today saw the first release of an OU App for iPhone and iPod Touch from our Marketing Department into the Apple App store. Apple’s online location for mobile applications has proved very popular, with over two billion downloads of over a hundred thousand apps; so we will not get too excited about our ability to…
Fridolin Wild gave the opening keynote to this year’s InternetBeta conference with a talk on ‘Science 2.0’ and the transformational impact of new technology on the way we research in the 21st Century. The presentation was framed by a talk from Jon McLoone from Wolfram Research about their latest project Wolfram Alpha and a talk…
Talis Information Limited, a well established and innovative software company headquartered in Birmingham, is part funding a PhD studentship in KMi, which will focus on Supporting the Exploration of Research Spaces. Talis is a global leader in the research, development and application of Semantic Web technologies, and the UK market leader in providing academic and…
Forty nine students from sixteen countries attended the seventh edition of the Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2009), which took place in Cercedilla, Spain on 5-11 July. The event, founded and directed by Prof Enrico Motta, is the latest in the successful and groundbreaking series of SSSW summer schools, which…
Simon Overell recently published his PhD thesis Geographic Information Retrieval: Classification, Disambiguation and Modelling following his viva in April that he passed with flying colours. With this PhD project finished, Simon’s primary supervisor Professor Stefan Rüger of KMi, can now look back at eight eminently successful PhD supervisions at his former institution Imperial College London,…
Professor Stefan Rüger of KMi has been invited to give a keynote at the ImageCLEF Workshop on Visual Information Retrieval Evaluation in Corfu, Greece, on 29 September 2009. ImageCLEF is the cross-language image retrieval track which is run as part of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital…
With a bit of help from KMi technology, researchers at the University of Bologna have developed a new decision support system, which helps neurologists measure the disability caused to a patient by the onset of multiple sclerosis. The system, which is called AEDSS (Automatic EDSS), assesses the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) in a patient,…
KMi members were very much in evidence at the awards ceremony held at the Asian Semantic Web Conference last week, winning both the prize for best research paper as well as the best poster award. After being postponed in December 2008, due to the political situation in Thailand, the third ASWC took place last week…
