PhD students from KMi took part this week in the 2nd AKT Doctoral Symposium, held at the University of Aberdeen. The event was entirely organised by students from the EPSRC-funded AKT project, providing an opportunity to present doctoral work to a public audience and gain experience of the peer review process. KMi student Vlad Tanasescu's…
Peter Scott attended the Public Services Summit in Stockholm, during Nobel Week 2005. The theme this year was Responsive, Citizen Centered Public Services. The event was hosted by the City of Stockholm and Cisco Systems Thursday 8 December – Sunday 11 December 2005. The Nobel Week Summit provides an unusual venue to explore the possibilities…
This week La Sorbonne, Université de Paris IV hosted the International Workshop on Annotation for Collaboration, sponsored by CNRS, the French National Research Council. KMi's Simon Buckingham Shum presented his research to the gathering which brought together researchers from across Europe. The presentation outlined the use of lightweight discourse semantics to add a new dimension…
KMi recently hosted a series of events focused on localised wireless information systems, led by Saul Albert (WirelessLondon) and Jo Walsh (co-author, Mapping Hacks). Jo Walsh led a KMi Podium presentation outlining the possibilities provided by localised semantic web applications, describing some of her theoretical work and the practical applications she has been building in…
The IMC organization held a congress in Munich 10-11th October 2005. The congress is a large, very Germanic, trade-focused, event which helps companies to think about eLearning and management issues. My keynote to this business audience was on live and streaming media. Before the Congress, the PROLEARN Network of Excellence in professional technology-enhanced learning, held…
KMi continued its long association with the KAW/KCAP series of workshops and conferences last week with a big presence at KCAP′05 in Banff, Canada. KCAP is one of the most creative gatherings of knowledge management researchers on the planet. This year saw presentations on knowledge capture from stories and from games on the web, ontology…
KMi is in Utah this week, contributing to the primary international gathering of educators and researchers, debating the future of the Open Content movement. Open Content is the educational analogy to the Open Source software movement, with the mission to make top quality learning material freely available to any student or educator, in a form…
The first Prolearn Summer School ran from 5th-9th September this year at the Sile campus of Isik University in Turkey. This brand new campus near Istanbul was occupied by hard-working Prolearn Grad Students even before it had seen its first intake of Turkish undergrads! The School was a great success and was very highly regarded…
ICWL 2005, the 4th International Conference on Web-based Learning was held this year in Hong Kong (31st July – 3rd August , 2005). This event gives a very interesting perspective on Asia Pacific and eLearning with topics ranging from e-Learning Platforms and Tools, Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management Practice and Experience Sharing, e-Learning Standards,…
KMi students joined more than 50 others from Europe and beyond in Spain last month for the third Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW05). Co-directed by Enrico Motta (KMi) and Asun G�mez-P�rez (UPM) the school covered topics such as ontology mapping and alignment, semantic web services, and human language technologies. As…
