Dr. Dawei Song and Dr. Jianhan Zhu have been selected to receive a 2006 IBM UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Framework) Innovation Award for $19,000 USD. The UIMA Innovation Award has been designed to encourage the use of open source and open standards-based tools for academic curricula and research, and the use of UIMA to support…
Italian Lorenzo Gariano summited Everest on the morning of 21st May, but the achievement has been severely dented by the loss of two members of the team. Climbing again with experienced Russian Alex Abramov and Dutchman Harry Kikstra, the teams travelled through war-torn Kathmandu on their way to Base Camp in Tibet for a North…
Roxana Belecheanu a Research Fellow in KMi has just accepted the "Best Industrial and Applied Paper" award from DARPA. The award was given to Roxana for her paper "Commercial Applications of Agents: Lessons, Experiences and Challenges" presented at the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS06) in Hakodate, Japan. Co-written with her…
Professor Enrico Motta and Dr John Domingue of the Knowledge Media Institute have received a set of record-breaking awards totaling �4m from the European Commission’s Framework 6 Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. This is the largest ever combined award obtained by KMi associated with a single funding programme. The awards include three Integrated Projects (IPs)…
Marta Sabou, who joined KMi last November, has been chosen as one of the top ten young AI researchers in the world, to be included in a “AI Ten to Watch” article, which will be featured in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems, one of the top magazines in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The publication…
Today saw the presentation of awards for the first Making The News competition at London's Olympia. The awards were presented by Robin Cousins MBE, Olympic Gold medalist in 1980 and part of the London Olympic Team for 2012, for which easynet are official sponsors. Photo shows pupils from Mayhill Junior School (part of the South…
Yanna Vogiazou today completed her PhD, focused on the notion of 'presence' in the online and wireless connected world. Yanna took a break from her new role as a Lecturer in Interaction Design at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Yanna's thesis, entitled “Design for emergence: collaborative social play using online and wireless, location-based media”, is…
Personal assistant to department director, Enrico Motta, Ortenz Rose today celebrated twenty five years of service at The Open University. In addition to the official certificate, she also recevied a crystal vase and a large bunch of flowers.
The GRID is the emerging next generation infrastructure for researchers. The AccessGrid is the GRIDs video conferencing and collaboration environment. Recognising the success of the CoAKTinG e-Science project, specifically the work with NASA on e-science tools for Earth-Mars scientific collaboration, JISC has funded KMi with a 21 month follow-on project under their Virtual Research Environments…
Last week saw the DIP Executive Management Board confirm KMi’s Deputy Director, John Domingue, as the project’s Scientific Director. In this role as head of the project he will be supported by the project’s previous head Christoph Bussler and the project manager Sigurd Harand, both from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland. DIP…
