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…
Congratulations to the Greenleas Churches and Husborne Crawley CLUTCH Clubs who have scooped first and second prizes in Bedfordshire Local History Association’s Website Competition 2002. In addition to the merits of their historical content, entries were judged against a broad range of criteria (concept, content, design, architecture and accessibility) with the intention of finding the…
KMi researchers have been awarded grants on EPSRC and EU-funded projects worth a combined total of over £1M pounds in a series of new initiatives that will bring KMi into the arenas of interactive digital TV games, cultural heritage, and collaborative tools based on advanced knowledge technologies and presence awareness. The image accompanying this story…
Postgraduate student Daisy Mwanza won an Outstanding Contribution Award for her paper presented at Computer Aided Learning (CAL) 2001, held at the University of Warwick. She won the award in the Lifelong Learning category for her paper entitled “Challenges of designing for collaborative learning in an organisation”. The award also comes with a free subscription…
Postgraduate student Daisy Mwanza won an Outstanding Contribution Award for her paper presented at Computer Aided Learning (CAL) 2001, held at the University of Warwick. She won the award in the Lifelong Learning category for her paper entitled “Challenges of designing for collaborative learning in an organisation”. The award also comes with a free subscription…
The use of ICT in schools in the UK has seldom lived up to expectations. One very notable exception is Heronsgate Middle School in Milton Keynes. This is one of KMi’s partner schools and it has been the focus of Dr Peter Whalley’s research for over 6 years. The school has also benefited from being…
