KMi was invited to give a presentation and run a workshop at the first Japanese Government run blockchain hackathon which happened in February in Tokyo. It was sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and tickets where by application only and limited due to the venue size. There were about 98 participants…
Last month John Domingue and I attended the first European Ethereum Development conference. Over 400 developers and researchers gathered in Paris at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris on 17-18 February 2017, to hear about the latest developments in Ethereum technology and research including proof of stake, Scalabilit and Privacy as well as to…
the 14th conference on ePortfolios, Open Badges, Personal Ledgers, Identities, Trust, Blockchains… Bologna 26-27-28 October 2016 Bologna is home to the oldest university in the world, founded in 1088, so it was a fitting place for the Open Badge and ePortfolio communities to come together and discuss the future of Open Badges and “to think deeply about…
The recently held International Blockchain week in Shanghai was jointly hosted by the Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs. The event consisted of a unique three-segment format. The first three days saw the Ethereum DevCon2 where major developers of the Ethereum community showcased the most up-to-date research and development work. This was followed by a Demo…
Compendium 2.0 (beta 1) contains many exciting new features that expand the boundaries of what you can do with the software, as well as enhance its existing capabilities. Movie Maps: You can bring videos directly into a new kind of Compendium view, called a "Movie Map". With this you can add nodes and links on…
The e-Dance project is investigating the use of Access Grid and hypermedia annotation in the choreography of distributed dance. On Wednesday the KMi Podium area was transformed into an internetworked dance studio. We used the Access Grid to connect with our colleagues at Manchester University. We had Helen Bailey from Bedford University dancing here at…
The release of Compendium 1.3 at the end of last year and its use of the open source MySQL database, allowed for cross-platform versions of Compendium to be developed, (see link to Compendium 1.3 Release for full details). Since this time we have been working towards Mac OS X and Linux releases of Compendium and…
