I’m delighted to announce that Joanna Kwiat has successfully defended her PhD, entitled "Multi-Perspective Annotation of Digital Stories for Professional Knowledge Sharing" The thesis will be published as a KMi Technical Report following revisions, although its in depth literature review of narrative theory, and its relevance for story technology, is already available as the report…
Congratulations to Anna De Liddo, who passed her PhD viva with flying colours last Friday! Her thesis "A Process Memory Platform to Support Participatory Planning & Deliberation" is collaborative work with Dept. di Architecttura e Urbanista, Politecnico di Bari, and KMi’s Hypermedia Discourse group. The viva panel were impressed with the originality of the research,…
Congratulations to MMIS group member Joao Magalhaes for passing his PhD viva yesterday at Imperial College London! Joao passed his viva with flying colours with an amazing "no changes required" from the examiners and many a complementary remark by them. We were all surprised by the appearance of his family and some friends who flew…
Today, Apple’s iTunes service for Universities, iTunes U was thrown open to an international community – and is showcasing the Open University. A team from KMi and the University Learning and Teaching Solutions have crafted a strong presence for the OU at launch; and have cunning plans to use this new channel opportunity in some…
Chris Valentine today received an OU Teaching Award for his role in the new course "Digital photography: creating and sharing better images". The first two presentations of the 10-week online course T189 attracted 1500 students each, making it one of the most successful OU courses to date. Its third presentation is due to start in…
In a dazzling gala ceremony in London, KMi was the winner this evening of an eWell-being award for FM online-meeting technology in the category "Better Ways of Working". The eWell-being awards were hosted at London’s Globe Theatre on the banks of the Thames, on April 30th 2008. The awards are presented by the UK Centre…
The Enabling Remote Activities (ERA) project was awarded an OU Teaching Award today at the opening ceremony of the Making Connections Conference. The ERA project is exploring how mobile technologies can be used to support remote fieldwork and involves collaboration between KMi, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Disabled Students Services office….
Professor John Domingue who originally came to the OU to do his PhD, entered KMi when it was formed in �95. Now, as one of the leading academics in the world of the Semantic Web, Professor Domingue has been awarded this prestigious title after years of dedicated work in his field resulting in highly acclaimed…
Congratulations to Sylvie Truman for passing her PhD viva today. The title of her thesis is A computer supported approach towards collaborative and creative musicality in the classroom: study and framework. The overall aim of the research was to develop and test a collaborative approach to composition that did not require knowledge of the conventional…
Enrico Motta today presented his inaugural Professorial lecture "The Age of Semantics" in the Berrill Lecture Theatre, introduced by OU Vice-Chancellor Brenda Gourley. Professor Motta assessed the current status and promise of the Semantic Web and situated the developments in the context of fifty years of research in Artificial Intelligence (AI). In particular, a long-standing…
