Dr. Mike Rodd, Director of Knowledge Services Department of the Institution of Electrical Engineer’s, visited KMi today as part of an OU-wide series of discussions arranged by Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh, Research Director of the OU’s Computing Department. Prof. Nuseibeh and Dr. Rodd are initiating discussions on possible collaborative links between the IEE and the OU….
KMi researchers have been awarded grants on EPSRC and EU-funded projects worth a combined total of over £1M pounds in a series of new initiatives that will bring KMi into the arenas of interactive digital TV games, cultural heritage, and collaborative tools based on advanced knowledge technologies and presence awareness. The image accompanying this story…
Professor Brenda Gourley, in post since January 2002 as the Open University’s fourth Vice-Chancellor, visited KMi today to meet staff as part of her ‘get acquainted’ series of visits to OU units. After a brief introductory chat with KMi Director Dr. Enrico Motta, Professor Gourley was then introduced to research teams around KMi. Research team…
KMi’s ‘BuddySpace’ experimental prototype for messaging, gaming, and group collaboration has now moved from an unofficial ‘skunkworks’ project to something that has caught the attention of Open University course teams, UK funding agencies, and international industry leaders in presence and messaging. BuddySpace began as a summer intern project, looking at ways of using maps and…
KMi is playing a key role in the formative stages of the Learning Federation, a proposed government/industry/academic coalition meeting in Washington DC on November 28th and 29th. The two-day brainstorm brings together high-profile representatives from industry, academia, and particularly the Cognitive and Learning Sciences Community, including Hal Abelson, John Anderson, John Seely Brown, Don Norman,…
Christine Large, Director of the Bletchley Park Trust, visited KMi on Thursday, 2nd November 2000. The visit, set up by Jez Grzeda, Director of OU Intellectual Property Mangement, was aimed at establishing links between the new ‘Community-oriented’ Bletchley Park Trust activities and the ongoing research projects within KMi. Bletchley Park is the home of the…
Peter Whalley’s FirstFlight Web Site has topped the Google search engine index, an achievement which relies entirely on the global popularity of the FirstFlight site itself. Unlike other search engines which make use of keywords and other ‘meta tag’ indexing operations, the highly popular Google site relies upon the number of links from the rest…
Denbigh School has just been awarded first place in the BECTa/Guardian UK Schools and College Year 2000 Web Site Awards. Denbigh was short-listed for the ‘Student Learners’ award from over 640 entries. This award focused on student work, i.e. student web sites, class work involving multiple media, and Magnet (an online student magazine). Significantly, Alex…
The Loughton School website, part of KMi’s ongoing work with the local community, has recently reached the point where it can be run entirely by the school children and one member of staff. The site, inspired originally by the seminal work of Peter Whalley and Shamus Foster at Heronsgate Middle School, is still in an…
The Loughton School website, part of KMi’s ongoing work with the local community, has recently reached the point where it can be run entirely by the school children and one member of staff. The site, inspired originally by the seminal work of Peter Whalley and Shamus Foster at Heronsgate Middle School, is still in an…
