On the 17/18th February 2011 in Brussels, Belgium, the EU Aspect Project ran a very well attended strategic seminar on ‘Educational Publishing Futures’ as a platform where Ministries of Education, publishers and ICT vendors could discuss the future of educational publishing and digital content for schools. KMi Director Peter Scott presented our work on ‘eBook…
One of China’s most prominent universities, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, has featured KMi’s Fridolin Wild in a guest lecture, giving him the opportunity to present his new theory on how meaning is created and how machines can exploit this algorithmically. The new technique is called meaningful interaction analysis (MIA) and combines the semantic vector…
Today saw the closing ceremony for the latest Future Internet Assembly held in Ghent (FIA Ghent). KMi’s was strongly represented in the Future Internet work via by two projects: SOA4All and SOFI, and most significantly through our leadership of the Future Internet Working Group for the Software and Services Unit. The Future Internet Assemblies are…
KMi present both its mobile prototype applications and work on the iTunes U system at the Mobile Technologies Special Interest Group showcase in the Library yesterday, despite the team being seriously depleted by illness. The Chinese Characters and Virtual Microscope applications have both proved popular on the Apple downloads site and are currently being expanded…
The annual Online Educa conference took place in frozen Berlin last week. Despite the weather conditions, the conference was attended by key people in the e-learning industry and academia. Alexander Mikroyannidis from KMi was there and gave a talk at the Next Generation Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) workshop organised by the British Institute for Learning…
Last week KMi’s Carlos Pedrinaci gave a keynote at the 4th Workshop on Non-Functional Properties and SLA Management in Service-Oriented Computing collocated with the 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services in Ayia Napa, Cyprus. In his talk, Carlos revisited some of the existing issues limiting the uptake of services on the Web, and highlighted…
Seventy pupils from Farmborough Primary School in Bath took part in three photomarathons during their trip to the Roman Baths today. Photomarathons are a timed competition in which a group of photographers are given a set of themes to take photos on. At the end of the available time the photographers submit a set of…
Today sees the launch of the British Library’s major new exhibition on how digital tools are already transforming how we do research, including KMi’s e-Dance Project. Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research, runs from 12 October 2010 – 16 July 2011. We’re delighted to say that the e-Dance Project (in collaboration with Univ. Bedfordshire, Leeds…
Dr Harith Alani from KMi gave an invited talk at the European Science Foundation conference (ESF-COST) on Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective. The conference took place on 1-7 October, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is one of the longest-running European instruments supporting cooperation among scientists and…
KMi Professor Stefan Rüger lectured on Multimedia Information Retrieval during a one-week Summer School at Voronezh State University, Russia. RuSSIR 2010 brought together postgraduate students from all over Russia and employees in the search engine industry. Rüger’s course on multimedia information retrieval — spread over 5 days — discussed in detail the process of searching…
