In a visit to the Multimedia Interaction Group at the University of Delft in the Netherlands recently, Al Selvin presented his research work to the team there. Al was invited to talk to the MMI group about his work on "Coherence, Engagement, and Usefulness as Sensemaking Criteria in Participatory Media Practice". When skilled practitioners create…
An Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) presentation at mLearn 2008 has lead to JANET to issue a call to develop extreme portable WLAN projects. The presentation at mLearn impressed Mark O’Leary of JANET enough for him to set up a call for projects to investigate ‘networking at the edge’. ERA, along with four other academic teams…
KMi’s new 7th Framework project ROLE kicked off its work in a meeting on 2 – 3 March 2009, in Lausanne, Switzerland. ROLE is a project on Responsive Open Learning Environments and is intended to connect well with established OU work on OpenLearn, current work such as iCoper, and then to new initiatives such as…
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…
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…
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…
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: E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change is the worlds 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…
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…
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…
