Event Participation/Organization

<p>Story relating to an event</p>

VMworld Europe 2009

Robbie Bays is attending this year’s "VMworld Europe" conference in Cannes. VMworld, organized by VMware, primary purpose is to share and discuss their advances in virtualization with thousands of industry professionals and experts. KMi runs many virtual servers within our SAN environment, and VMware’s latest developments promises to bring huge benefits to our infrastructure. This…

ACU Executives consider Dazzling Technologies in Hyderabad, India

The Hyderabad International Convention Centre, India saw the annual meeting of the Executive Heads of Commonweath Universities this week. KMi Director Peter Scott gave an invited talk on "New Channel Thinking: YouTube, iTunes and the live and online world". The Association of Commonwealth Universities, chaired this year by UKOU VC Brenda Gourley arrange a conference…

Keynote at Chinese Semantic Web Symposium (CSWS 2008)

Prof Enrico Motta flew to China for the weekend to deliver a keynote address at the 2008 Chinese Semantic Web Symposium. The event was organised by the members of the Apex Lab at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and was chaired by Professor Yong Yu. The chinese Semantic Web research community is currently one of…

KMi to host ECIR in 2010

The Open University and KMi are to host the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in March 2010. This annual conference has previously been held in London (2006), Rome (2007), Glasgow (2008) and Toulouse (2009) and is considered the main European forum for presenting research in the field of Information Retrieval. As such, approximately…

ESSENCE: World’s 1st Climate Collective Intelligence event

ESSENCE: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change is the world’s first global climate collective intelligence event, designed to bring together scientists, industrialists, campaigners and policy makers, and the emerging set of web-based sensemaking tools, to pool and deepen our understanding of the issues and options facing the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. Organised by the…

DSSim Selected for Presentation at OM-2008

Dr Maria Vargas-Vera, Miklos Nagy and Piotr Stolarski participated with their System DSSim (short for Dempter-Shafer similarity) in the OAEI-2008 Evaluation. DSSim has obtained very good results in this event and the DSSim team have been invited to give a presentation in Germany at the OM-2008 workshop collocated with the ISWC-2008. DSSim selected for oral…

Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008)

We are now at the start of an exciting new venture – designing a new planetary scale network to meet today�s industrial and societal needs. The first Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008) which was held in Vienna, 28-30 September, provided a forum for leading researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss the wide-ranging scientific and…

KMi at Green IT Networking Seminar

Stefan Rueger, Paul Alexander and Robbie Bays attended the ‘Green IT Networking Seminar’ hosted by the ‘London Technology Network (LTN)’, at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London. The event showcased cutting-edge research and development in technologies which can help reduce energy costs and improve our organizations carbon footprint. KMi were on hand…

KMi Promotes Green IT at London Event

KMi IT & Systems Team members Paul Alexander and Damian Dadswell were at Kew Gardens in London yesterday attending the NCE IQ 2008 event. Held on a yearly basis, this event gives members of the IT industry an opportunity to find out about the latest developments in the area of storage, data protection, backup and…

Global Sensemaking network launches

I’m delighted to say that the Global Sensemaking network has just gone public, after several months of community building under the radar. Global Sensemaking (GSm) is a group of people dedicated to helping humanity address complex, interrelated global problems-such as climate change, energy policy, poverty, and food security-by developing and applying new web-based technology to…