The KMi developed ERA (Enabling Remote Activity) system, designed to enable mobility impaired students to participate in Geology field trips, was recently voted the most inspiring project at a UK wide Virtual Fieldwork conference. KMi’s Earth Science collaborators, Jesscia Bartlett (SXR339 Course Manager) and John Whalley (Field Tutor) presented ERA to the May 2007 EES…
The US group Pew Internet and American Life recently surveyed 742 "internet leaders, activists, and analysts" in the fields of computing, politics and business to ask them their thoughts about the future of the internet – where would we be in 2020? KMi views were reported in the survey, with PhD student Mark Gaved reflecting…
KMi's work on Bletchley Park and the Open Guide to Milton Keynes was presented at the CIRN annual conference in Prato, Italy, last week. Mark Gaved presented a paper linking the KMi developed Bletchley Park Tour Guides services, Bletchley Park Text (a tool to allow people to follow up their museum visit using mobile phones)…
The KMi-developed Open Guide to Milton Keynes was presented at WikiSym 2006 in Odense, Denmark, by Mark Gaved, co-admin last week. Mark attended the conference to present a practitioner report on the wiki-based community guide, part of the Open Guides family. Mark and Tom Heath have been administering and developing the guide for the last…
A KMi pilot project has enabled a mobility impaired student to participate in the Earth Sciences summer school for course SXR339 "Ancient Mountains". The KMi developed ERA (Enabling Remote Access) System provided a wireless link to enable the student to view live video and direct a geologist to take photos of areas that she'd not…
London saw a gathering of the world's freenetworkers, open source gurus and civic society thinkers for a week of discussion about free information infrastructures this week, culminating in a weekend conference. Mark Gaved attended the weekend events on behalf of KMi and his PhD research into the grassroots networking community. Many of the world's key…
Never frightened of cutting edge research, today KMi ventured into testing RFC 1149: “A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”. Who was our new guest? An intruder? Or part of a radical research development dreamt up by those boffins in the South Wing, investigating the comparative transfer speed of standard wifi…
KMi's six a side cricket team is through to the inter-department competition quarter finals. Winning three games out of three, our multinational team (two Czechs, two Indians, a Barbadian and a Brit) is getting ready to face a tough match this Thursday to win a place in the semis. Beating Earth Sciences “Main Boundary Thrusts”,…
KMi has hosted a roundtable workshop examining research into supporting community through the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). The two day workshop brought together academics and practitioners from as far afield as Australia and Brazil to exchange stories, highlight interests and consider possible solutions to issues in their research. Organised by Mark Gaved…
Fantastic result today for the KMi six a side football team as they beat the Group C favourites 1-0 to go top of the table! Tocsix are a big strong team (as John nearly found out!) and put the pressure on from the beginning with a shot just wide. But Internzionale fought back, with Jan…
