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…
The final of the RCUK Business Plan Competition 2008 was held on the 20th October at Stamford Bridge, the home of Chelsea Football Club. KMis Alan Fletcher was there to represent the competition entry for the FlashMeeting project and FM technologies, running an exhibition stand with live demos of FM and Hexagon for the assembled…
At the recent General Assembly meeting for Semantic Technology Institute International (STI International), held at the end of September in Vienna, the members voted in John Domingue as the new President. STI International is an global organisation with over 35 members in Europe, North America, and Asia with a mission to “make semantics real” –…
The Enabling Remote Activity project has been shortlisted for an award at the Handheld Learning 2008 conference. ERA is a finalist in the ‘Special Needs – Innovation’ category for developing a system to support mobility impaired students participating in the OU ‘Ancient Mountains’ geology fieldwork course. You can help us win – the winner is…
OpenLearn tools created by KMi are helping educators and researchers develop innovative practice and learning methodologies across the world! Paulo Moreira (Minho), Daniela Melare (UNED) and Ale Okada (KMi) participated as keynotes in the Web Curriculum Conference in Brazil describing the best learning projects from CoLearn Community with KMi Tools: Compendium and FlashMeeting Project. The…
