Ben Hawkridge and Chris Valentine have run a successful workshop to introduce all five members of the University’s Equality and Diversity team to the technicalities of recording material for podcasting or for presentation on the OU’s new YouTube channel. They will be using their new knowledge to record video and audio media to promote the…
Forty nine students from sixteen countries attended the seventh edition of the Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW 2009), which took place in Cercedilla, Spain on 5-11 July. The event, founded and directed by Prof Enrico Motta, is the latest in the successful and groundbreaking series of SSSW summer schools, which…
The last week of June saw the Dagstuhl �Semantic Web Reflections and Future Directions� Perspectives Workshop take place in the well-known centre for informatics meetings. The seminar was organised by KMi’s John Domingue together with Dieter Fensel (Universit�t Innsbruck), James A. Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic, USA) and Rudi Studer (Universit�t Karlsruhe), and involved 50 of the…
KMi staff demonstrated a wide range of projects to visitors at this weekend’s Open University "Open Unlimited event" when the university threw open its doors to the public, friends, students and staff. The KMi stalls were kept busy all day with a steady flow of visitors interested to find out what we’re up to. KMi…
The annual CRC PhD Student conference was held at KMi on Thursday June 18th and Friday June 19th. 28 students from the Centre for Computing and KMi, both full time and part time and at various stages in their research gave short presentations describing their progress to supervisors and interested members of staff. The talks…
May 5th and 6th KMi has organized and hosted the first ESSENCE workshop on eScience, Sensemaking and Argumentation tools for climate change deliberation. ESSENCE is the first public event organized by KMi in collaboration with Global Sensemaking (GSm), a network formed in 2008 to develop human-centred computing tools to help tackling wicked problems such as…
A joint KMi and OU library team today hosted a tailored series of workshops in KMi that was designed to explore the future face of the OU library. The workshop participants, all of whom gave extremely positive feedback about the event, were from across the board within the library. Participants were encouraged to explore the…
Paul Alexander is currently attending the DataCore User Conference 2009 held in Dusseldorf at the famous LTU Arena. DataCore is the Storage Area Network (SAN) software that KMi use to store all of their data on. It allows us to mirror our data between both server rooms located at the Open University Walton Hall campus…
KMi’s Stefan Rueger delived today a keynote address at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems held in the ancient city of Cairo, Egypt. One major focus of the event, organised by the Ain Shams University in cooperation with ACM, is multimedia and sensor analysis, specifically in the medical area. Prof Rueger outlined…
A team from the Open University joined colleagues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities and a large community of podcasters at the STEEPLE project workshop "Beyond Walls" at the Oxford University Said Business School on April 3rd 2009. Peter Scott, Ben Hawkridge and Laurian Gridinoc from KMi, with Nick Watson and Stuart Nixon from LTS were…
