BP Amoco is funding a 2 year Research Fellowship into the application of the D3E Web document publishing and discussion system to an internal best practices journal, modelled on the innovative Journal of Interactive Media in Education. This project continues BPA’s collaborative research with KMi into knowledge management technologies, initiated with the organizational lea rning…
The British Council has awarded a follow-on grant to KMi’s D3E Project and the Universite de Provence. The Council’s Alliance Programme was set up to foster Franco-British research, and this grant will enable KMi to continue its 1998 collaboration with Nathalie Bonnardel’s research team who specialise in cognitive ergonomics. They will be evaluating the usability…
KMi’s role in European-funded research continued to expand this week with the signing of a 262KECU (£187K) contract under the EU INCO-Copernicus initiative. The full project, entitled “Medical Guideline Technology: Representing, Interpreting and Sharing Cost-effective Standards”, resulted from a successful bid by Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal. The project brings 105KECU (£75K) to KMi, and involves partners…
Today marks the official start of a £650K KMi-led European project entitled "ENRICH: Enriching representations of work to support organizational learning." The project, conceived and written by KMi’s Tammy Sumner, John Domingue, and Zdenek Zdrahal, will bring more than £300K directly into KMi. The full ENRICH project, to be managed by Dr. Zdrahal, will support…
Following the recent visit by Lord Dalkeith and the subsequent meeting of the Millennium Commissioners, the proposal for the ‘Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme’ has been approved (subject to contract). A grant of approximately UKP 0.7million has been offered for the Scheme by the Millennium Commission. The Culture, Media and Sport Secretary…
Dr. Stuart Watt, joint Lecturer in Knowledge Media and Psychology, has been awarded a prestigious Short-Term Research Fellowship by BT Research Labs. Stuart will spend six weeks at BTRL in Martlesham Heath this summer, continuing his innovative work on intelligent agents and the concepts underlying the very notion of agency. According to the web site…
Trevor Collins, a final year PhD student in KMi, has won the ‘Best Student Paper Award’ at this year’s IEEE World Congress On Computational Intelligence held in Anchorage, Alaska (May 4-9, 1998). This congress is made up of three conferences on: Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems. Trevor won his award for his paper…
KMI has been awarded 22,500 Ecu from the European Commission to carry out research in the area of knowledge-based systems. This grant will fund a pilot study on the development of an intelligent brokering service which will enable third party knowledge-component reuse through the World-Wide Web. The total budget for the project – called IBROW3…
The winners of the Information Society Creativity Awards 1996 have been announced. KMi’s webpage, created by members of the MET Group, is available here. The site features RealAudio recordings of the citations by Ian Taylor MBE MP, Minister for Science and Technology; Douglas Adams, Author; Sir Terence Conran, Chairman Conran Holdings; Robert Youngjohns, MD Sun…
