So began the feedback from the mid-term review of the SOA4All project, held last week in Brussels. From a relatively slow start the three external reviewers of the project now agreed that the project is performing very well. As one review said: �it is now fun to be a reviewer�. SOA4All is a large EU…
At the recent "Storage Awards 2009", the Knowledge Media Institute was presented with an award for Green Storage Solution of the Year. Paul Alexander (KMi’s IT & Systems Manager) represented KMi and received the award along with John Greenwood of NCE Computer Group who were responsible for implementing the solution with KMi technical staff. The…
The University of Waikato, New Zealand, has appointed Prof Stefan Rueger of KMi as Honorary Professor in their Department of Computer Science for a five year period from June 2009. This award recognises the ties and collaborations that Stefan has built with Waikato’s Digital Libraries Research group over the last six years. The principal research…
KMi PhD student Fouad Zablith has been awarded a honorary mention for his paper entitled "Evolva: A Comprehensive Approach to Ontology Evolution", at the PhD Symposium held during the 2009 European Semantic Web Conference. This year’s symposium, which took place in Heraklion, Crete, was extremely competitive: out of 31 submissions only 8 were accepted as…
Former KMi PhD student Tom Heath has been awarded the prestigious "PhD of the Year" prize, which is assigned every year to the most promising researcher in the STi International academic network. Tom was given the prize at a ceremony held during the organisation’s recent offsite meeting in Kalamaki, Crete. KMi’s John Domingue, President of…
Ainhoa Llorente, one of KMis PhD students, has been awarded funding for 12 months from Abbey, one of the largest UK banks and part of the Banco Santander group, to continue her research on automated image annotation. Her doctoral work, which is supervised by Profs Stefan Rueger and Enrico Motta, aims to improve the quality…
The EU FP6 project PHAROS has received the top rating at its recent annual review. After the review meeting held in Oslo at the beginning of March, reviewers gave a rating of "Good to Excellent" and stated "During the second year, the PHAROS project has achieved outstanding results in developing an open platform for audio-visual…
KMi members were very much in evidence at the awards ceremony held at the Asian Semantic Web Conference last week, winning both the prize for best research paper as well as the best poster award. After being postponed in December 2008, due to the political situation in Thailand, the third ASWC took place last week…
In collaboration with key European education and commercial partners, The Open Universitys Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) will be leading the way in an additional five EU funded consortia to develop a variety of information technology initiatives over the next four years, all ultimately designed to increase computing, business and education efficiency. Already well represented and…
Sofia Angeletous submission to this years PhD symposium has been selected as one of the top three papers of the event and obtained an honourable mention. This is a remarkable achievement given this years incredibly high competition. Indeed, a record number of 39 submissions have been received, out of which only seven have been selected…
