Mathieu d’Aquin, Fouad Zablith and Enrico Motta have won the best demo award at this year’s Extended Semantic Web Conference, which took place in Crete last week. The demostration concerned wayOU, a mobile app based on Linked Data, which supports social location tracking at the Open University. wayOU enables Open University staff and students to…
The three year 13M Euro SOA4All project has now come to an end with a very successful final review. The main aim of the project was to facilitate the creation of a "Service Web": a web where services exist in large numbers and are easily found, composed and invoked. In addition to the headline quote…
Every two years, the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine runs the “AI’s 10 to Watch” award, which aims to identify 10 of the most promising early career researchers in Artificial Intelligence. As Prof Fei-Yue Wang, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems, says in his editorial, the winners list provides a “glimpse of the future of AI” and…
On Tuesday 21st March 2011, KMi Director Dr Peter Scott was featured in the BBC Business News article “Going to Harvard from your own bedroom”, by Merlin John, featured on the home page of bbc.co.uk. Peter is quoted as stating “in the online world you don’t need to fill buildings or lecture theatres with people…
For the third time running, Rebecca Ferguson has taken a team of young learners to the national finals of the Y-Factor competition. The conference is run as part of Learning Without Frontiers (formerly the Handheld Learning conference) and is open to children and young people who are making innovative uses of technology to support their…
Various members of KMi grew moustaches in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity via Movember. This is the second year KMi have taken up the challenge and 2010 saw double the number of participants and double the total contributions. Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a…
KMi members were very much in evidence at the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2010), which took place in Lisbon on 11-15 October. First held in 1987, EKAW represents the main European forum for research in knowledge technologies. In particular, two prestigious awards were brought home by KMi members. The…
Last week saw the premier event for EU funded research ICT 2010 which was held in Brussels, had over 4000 participants and covered the multi-billion Euro ICT Programme. The 3-day conference was opened by Mr. Yves Leterme, the Belgian Prime Minister, Vice-President Silvana Koch-Mehrin of the European Parliament, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation…
A very neat set of pieces from the UK’s Times Newspaper was published recently, and gives a rounded view of some things happening at the Open University. The Knowledge Media Institute’s work features in a number of these articles in the paper. (The pieces are in the STUDENT section of the Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk but…
The STELLAR project has been commended in its first annual performance evaluation by the European Commission for starting so strongly in its goal of strengthening scientific and technological excellence in Technology-Enhanced Learning. A panel of four international experts, from the US, China, Norway, and the UK, chaired by the EC project officer Marco Marsella assessed…
