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…
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 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…
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…
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…
