The Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India saw the annual meeting of the Executive Heads of Commonweath Universities this week. KMi Director Peter Scott gave an invited talk on "New Channel Thinking: YouTube, iTunes and the live and online world". The Association of Commonwealth Universities, chaired this year by UKOU VC Brenda Gourley arrange a conference…
Prof Enrico Motta flew to China for the weekend to deliver a keynote address at the 2008 Chinese Semantic Web Symposium. The event was organised by the members of the Apex Lab at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and was chaired by Professor Yong Yu. The chinese Semantic Web research community is currently one of…
Dr Maria Vargas-Vera, Miklos Nagy and Piotr Stolarski participated with their System DSSim (short for Dempter-Shafer similarity) in the OAEI-2008 Evaluation. DSSim has obtained very good results in this event and the DSSim team have been invited to give a presentation in Germany at the OM-2008 workshop collocated with the ISWC-2008. DSSim selected for oral…
One million tracks of educational content from the Open University has now been downloaded in the four months since it joined Apple’s iTunes U channel. This has meant providing over 17 Terabytes of data, being around 62,000 hours of audio and video from the Open University to a new, worldwide audience. On 3 June, the…
Chris Valentine today received an OU Teaching Award for his role in the new course "Digital photography: creating and sharing better images". The first two presentations of the 10-week online course T189 attracted 1500 students each, making it one of the most successful OU courses to date. Its third presentation is due to start in…
In a dazzling gala ceremony in London, KMi was the winner this evening of an eWell-being award for FM online-meeting technology in the category "Better Ways of Working". The eWell-being awards were hosted at London’s Globe Theatre on the banks of the Thames, on April 30th 2008. The awards are presented by the UK Centre…
David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and his Chief of Staff, Nicholas Hillman, today visited the Open University. Accompanied by the Vice Chancellor Brenda Gourley they came to KMi to get a clear picture of the future of learning in the internet age, and to meet up with a…
Jianhan Zhu’s award-winning Expert Search, notable for pinpointing people rather than just documents, is now available for mobile phone users via the OU Library’s innovative site. Dr. Zhu, a Research Fellow in KMi, has successfully deployed his technology again at this year’s TREC (Text Retrieval Conference), coming in the top 3 places in the automatic…
KMi’s Barry Norton represented the SUPER project on the Business Process Management (BPM07) panel on the future of BPM alongside Jamie Cornes (SunCorp), Michael zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute), Barbara Pernici (Politechnico di Milano) and Steve Tieman (Estee Lauder) in Brisbane, Australia on 26th September. Barry stressed the role of semantics and planned use of Web…
KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt delivered a stinging condemnation of elearning at his keynote address to the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies on Friday in Niigata, Japan. The keynote, entitled "Does elearning have to be so awful? (Time to mashup or shutup)", took objection to decades of false promises and research that had…
