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 GRIDÂ’s 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…
More and more people are saying positive things about KMi's web meeting tool FlashMeeting. From amongst the latest in a line of nice citations from amongst the world's busiest bloggers, a review from Robin Good's Kolabora News web page is very positive about the system. Says Good, “… what I appreciate the most in this…
Acknowledged by many as the ‘Father of the World Wide Web’, Tim Berners-Lee received a Knighthood in the New Years’ Honours List. Born in London in 1955, Sir Tim received an honorary degree in the OU’s first Virtual Degree Ceremony, engineered by KMi, in March 2000. The ceremony was aimed at the worldwide body of…
KMi Director Enrico Motta was today appointed as Professor of Knowledge Technologies. Photo shows Enrico with Professors Marc Eisenstadt and Bob Spicer (Earth Sciences), both members of the selection committee. Related Links: Enrico Motta
Open University Vice-Chancellor Professor Brenda Gourley and the newly-installed Mayor for Milton Keynes attended citischool's second graduation ceremony at the National Hockey Stadium on Thursday evening.The OU contribute to the citischool project in a number of ways including temporary work placement, and KMi have developed and continue to host their Internet-based project management suite. Photo…
KMi PhD student Martin Dzbor, shown here receiving congratulations and champagne from KMi directors Enrico and John, graduated today. Martin working on the knowledge-intensive modelling of the conceptual phase of engineering design with the focus of research is the interaction between the problem framing and problem solving. During his PhD, he developed a formal model…
