The wide-ranging impact of KMi-inspired research and development has been the subject of a recent report to The Open University’s Learning and Teaching Innovations Committee. The report, by KMi’s Arthur Stutt and Stuart Watt, describes no fewer than 36 different activities emanating from KMi that have a direct impact on the future directions of Open…
The FirstFlight site, dedicated to the history and scientific study of flight, has once again leapt to the top of the charts. This time, aspects of the site are featured on the Associated Press ‘History of the 20th Century in Video’ site. Because of the design of AP’s own user interface, you need to click…
‘Open House’, the Open University’s award-winning monthly staff newspaper, features a four-page colour supplement entitled ‘KMi Focus’ in the May 1999 issue. This Planet story serves to provide links to followup details for Open House readers. The May 1999 supplement was suggested by Open House editor Malcolm Lane as a way of following through on…
Christmas ’98 sees the launch of an innovative scheme linking schools in Milton Keynes with churches, the Open University, and the Internet. A ‘wireless internet connection’ provides high-speed access for entire school networks by relaying signals from Heronsgate, Denbigh and Loughton schools via Christ the Cornerstone and Bow Brickhill Church steeples and onwards to the…
KMi’s role in European-funded research continued to expand this week with the signing of a 262KECU (£187K) contract under the EU INCO-Copernicus initiative. The full project, entitled “Medical Guideline Technology: Representing, Interpreting and Sharing Cost-effective Standards”, resulted from a successful bid by Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal. The project brings 105KECU (£75K) to KMi, and involves partners…
With the backdrop of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98), the Open University presented the new version of Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer (BKD), the knowledge discovery program able to extract Bayesian Networks from (possibly incomplete) databases, developed by the joint effort of the Knowledge Media Institute (Marco Ramoni) and the Department…
From 1st July to 1st October 1998, KMi Research Fellow Marco Ramoni will be working as Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, one of the world’s leading laboratories in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, according to a recent Business Week survey. The Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory, directed by Paul…
KMi Research Fellow Dr. Marco Ramoni has announced the launch of the latest version of his popular Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer (BKD). BKD is a data mining tool which can extract reusable knowledge from databases, using sound and accountable statistical methods, even when data is missing or incomplete. BKD Version 0.1 and Version 0.2 (Unix, AIX,…
Dr. Stuart Watt, joint Lecturer in Knowledge Media and Psychology, has been awarded a prestigious Short-Term Research Fellowship by BT Research Labs. Stuart will spend six weeks at BTRL in Martlesham Heath this summer, continuing his innovative work on intelligent agents and the concepts underlying the very notion of agency. According to the web site…
KMi’s Marc Eisenstadt and Blaine Price are featured speakers at UNICOM’s Interactive Learning/Online Training Seminar and Workshop, taking place 3-4 February 1998 at the Commonwealth Institute in London. The seminar is part of UNICOM’s annual series of seminars aimed at business and academic educators and trainers, designed to summarise the latest developments in the field….
