KMi Internetzionale 2-0 The Reelers (Earth Sciences). A great start to the KMi six-a-side football season with a 2-0 win against the Reelers! The sun was shining and the pitch looked muddier than our cancelled game earlier in the week… but the game was on. Internetzionale rushed forward from the beginning, and we had Alessio,…
KMi Internetzionale vs Tocsix KMi's six a side football campaign started today in farcical style. After 1 minute and 52 seconds, the game was stopped by Estates, who declared the pitch was not in good condition. Ah well! maybe a lucky escape for KMi, who were missing their goalie today. In the 1:52 of play,…
KMi footballing superstars got some training in today in preparation for the OU six-a-side competition. Mikele “Zidane” Pasin, Neil “David James” Benn, Alessio “Totti” Gugliott, Kev “Paul's mate who is dead good so he's in our team” McLeod and Mark “Sam Allardyce” Gaved joined in the regular Wednesday football game to get some practice and…
Milk powder tins at the ready, five KMI members headed off into the countryside for a day's practical wireless workshop. Under the watchful eye of John from Deckspace, the tins were turned into directional antenna for our laptops, and field testing commenced. The practical wireless workshop developed from Mark Gaved's PhD work and gave KMi…
Grassroots initiated community network developers from around the UK met up in Lincolnshire on January 19th for the first CAN Colloquium. Mark Gaved, KMi PhD student attended as part of his research, meeting community groups that have developed their own local computer network to share high speed access and develop community resources. The Community Broadband…
KMi was represented at HICSS-38 by Mark Gaved, presenting a paper on his current PhD work in the minitrack 'Online Communities and the Digital Economy'. HICSS covered a broad range of computer and information systems research, with 600 delegates over 5 days (January 02 06 2005). This year saw strong tracks in semantic web,…
Mark Gaved, KMi PhD student, attended the Community Informatics Research Network conference, hosted in Monash University, Prato, Italy (Sept. 29 Oct. 1). The theme of the conference was “sustainability” and 80 researchers discussed how this applied to the field of Community Informatics. 'Sustainability' has been identified as a key and controversial issue in community…
Mark Gaved, KMi PhD student recently attended the Association of Internet Researchers conference, “Ubiquity?” hosted at the University of Sussex (18 – 22 September 2004). Approximately 350 attendees discussed mainly human centred aspects of internet research over 5 days in 9 parallel sessions and workshops. Sociological interest in the internet has developed rapidly in few…
KMi lose in the semi-finals but a 'scratch' team of KMI and friends get very close. Alas Fallen Stars insisted we play today despite our pleas to have the game rearranged until tomorrow, with three of our regular players including Neil not being able to play. It was going to be tough… Fallen Stars batted…
