KMi lead an OU team to an intensive 3 day workshop to work on an international perspective on future Arts and Humanties research this week. The Bamboo Planning Project is an 18-month planning and community design program funded by the US based Mellon foundation, being lead by the Universities of Chicago and Berkeley. The Open…
Peter Scott presented a keynote talk to the 7th annual conference on enhancing learning and teaching using technology hosted by the Centre for Learning Technology of Dublin, Trinity College. In supporting the overall mission of TCD, to enhance the learning experience of every student, CLT acts as a one-stop shop for academic and college staff…
Alex Little, a KMi developer on the OpenLearn project, was invited to give one of the opening presentations at the Italian MoodleMoot2008 in Padova last week. The event was attended by over 200 teachers and lecturers from across Italy from a wide variety of subject disciplines, all using Moodle for their online course delivery. Alex…
With over a billion users world-wide, the current Internet is a great success – a global integrated communications infrastructure and service platform underpinning the fabric of the World economy and society in general. However, today’s Internet was designed in the 1970s for purposes that bear little resemblance to current and foreseen usage scenarios. Mismatches between…
I’ve just returned from an intensive ‘Perspectives’ workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl, 2.5 hours out of Frankfurt. This brought together European and US leaders in both argumentation theory and systems development to debate the state of the art, and the future challenges to delivering argumentation-support technology on the web and other intelligent systems. We worked in…
The Educause ECAR Symposium was held in the spectacular Boca Raton Resort & Club near Miami in Florida this year. The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) provides timely research and analysis to help higher education leaders make better decisions about information technology. ECAR assembles leading scholars, practitioners, researchers, and analysts to focus on issues…
120 Year 5+6 pupils (9-11 yr olds) at Bushfield School in Wolverton gathered last week to hear about KMi’s work with NASA in anticipation of future manned missions to Mars. We had a great assembly with Earthlings battling out quizzes with Martians, movies from the historic NASA lunar missions and the current Mars MER mission,…
Knowledge Media Institute was honoured to be included among a handful of leading European institutes invited to the Framework 6 (FP6) Showcase Event, which took place on 12-13 December in Luxembourg. Out of eight invitations, two went directly to projects headed by KMi researchers: John Domingue (Scientific Director of the SUPER project) and Martin Dzbor…
During the last two years the Semantic Web community has increasingly been "eating its own dog food", by ensuring that it produces the data necessary to build a Semantic Web, and then consumes this data in novel applications. This trend has been evident in Semantic Web conferences such as ESWC and ISWC, in which KMi…
Last week I co-chaired the 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web. This is an exciting new community working at the intersection of social software, collaboration, discourse and the negotiation of meaning. There is as yet no single, agreed definition of "Pragmatic Web" – it is serving as a banner around which an eclectic network…
