Hey, it’s not Comdex… but the joint is seriously jumpin’… I’m in Havana at Informataca 2007, the biggest hi-tech gig to hit this town in, well, ever. It’s a meta-conference – 15 major conferences all taking place at once (list below), huge exhibitss, tons of delegates from around the world, and some interesting- looking gigs….
Pupils from St Mary’s CofE VA Primary School in Cambridgeshire almost swept the board at this week’s Making The News competition awards ceremony, hosted by EasyNet and presented by actor Warwick Davis at the BETT show in London’s Olympia. The children from this particular school are so keen on the system, they have even had…
Stuttgart, Germany (14-15/11/06) saw the second PTF conference focusing on supporting companies interested in innovations in professional learning. Yet again the Prolearn Network of Excellence helped draw together an international community committed to supporting the transfer of knowledge between practitioners and academics. The conference is coordinated by the Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart, Germany, under the…
I recently returned from Long Island, New York, where I joined an invitational workshop at the Dolan DNA Learning Center, to explore "New Horizons in Internet Site Development". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) where DNALC is based, is a private, non-profit basic research and educational institution. Established more than a century ago, CSHL conducts research…
UNESCO’s International Migration programme studies the impact of migration patterns. One aspect we’ve all heard about is "Brain Drain" as skilled citizens emigrate. However, you can be in many places at once on the Net, leading to a more positive view, that of "Brain Gain" since many of these diaspora want to continue helping their…
I’ve just returned from an interdisciplinary gathering at the 1st International Pragmatic Web Conference in Stuttgart. Borrowing from the linguistic metaphor of Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics, the emerging vision of the Pragmatic Web focuses on the contextual factors that make formalisms (like ontologies) and other communicative acts over the Web, meaningful. I described how my work on Hypermedia…
Barry Norton has been the invited speaker of this year’s AWeSOMe workshop. This was the second edition of this workshop which aims to bridge the gap between three major research areas: Agents, Web Services and Ontologies. The workshop was held as part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM’06), on the 29th of October 2006. Barry…
KMi's work on Bletchley Park and the Open Guide to Milton Keynes was presented at the CIRN annual conference in Prato, Italy, last week. Mark Gaved presented a paper linking the KMi developed Bletchley Park Tour Guides services, Bletchley Park Text (a tool to allow people to follow up their museum visit using mobile phones)…
The first EC-TEL European conference on Technology Enhance Learning was held recently in Crete, Greece. The conference was organized by the EU Network of Excellent Prolearn and the ProLC Cluster of EU projects. Two days of Workshops was followed by two days of Conference sessions and rounded off by two more days of EU project…
KMi technologies have again played a key role within the UK's flagship EPSRC-funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project. During 9-11th Oct. Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta, and Tom Heath attended an AKT project workshop at Southampton University. It was one of the more exciting workshops we've had, mainly from the technology demonstration point of view. Dnyanesh…
