Eva Rehorkova and Chris Woods joined the CIPHER team at Bletchley Park as part of their planning for a new collaborative heritage project to be run in their schools next academic year. Eva Rehorkova was representing Gymnázium Jiřího Gutha-Jarkovského, a secondary school based in Prague. Denbigh School, Milton Keynes, was represented by Chris Woods. The…
Two accepted research papers out of two submitted. This is the result of recent submissions by two KMi research students, Martin Dzbor and Dnyanesh Rajpathak, to the high-profile European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) taking place in July 2002 in France. The ECAI series is one of the most competitive, general AI-audience conferences, and is…
Kettering General Hospital chief executive Geraint Martin has made a pioneering webcast to kick off the AEC project webcasting series. On Thursday, January 24, Geraint made the “on the record” broadcast to staff to let them know what was happening in the Trust and nationwide. Webcasting is one of the areas which we are investigating…
Today sees the first meeting of the CIPHER project. CIPHER is a two and a half year, 1.5 million Euro project, funded by the EU Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, within the area of “Heritage for All”. The overall aim of the CIPHER project is to develop innovative technologies and methodologies that enable the celebration…
The 2-year Computer Literacy Understanding Through Community History project (CLUTCH) funded by the UK Millennium Commission is now complete. This scheme has facilitated some 311 parents in the research and production of 59 web sites on a local history topics. CLUTCH has proved to be tremendously popular and a powerful tool for the production of…
Today, Christine Rospopa presented the Assisted Electronic Communication project in a live and on-line webcast in Kettering General Hospital NHS trust. This was the first live test of the system which is going to be launched with a series in January 2002. Christine spoke live to nurses across the Trust – in areas such as…
The OU launched a new mobile access centre for disabled people at 1.00pm on Tuesday 20th November 2001. Maria Eagle MP, Minister (pictured) for Disabled People, was the guest of honour and will give a short speech. She inaugurated the OU / Halifax Access Bus with the help of one of our disabled students. This…
The Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E) has been released for free download, most components already open source, with others to follow. This ‘world release’ is accompanied by the launch of the LTS OU-D3E service, to assist the OU community. What is D3E? Use D3E to publish web discussion documents. The content (any web media) is…
Professor Brenda Gourley, the Open University Vice-Chancellor designate gave her first University presentation today. The event was the Keynote Address to the University Council – webcast on Friday 21st September 2001, at 1530 GMT from the Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes, in the United Kingdom. Professor Gourley spoke on…
With the official signing of the OntoWeb contract The Open University has formally joined the OntoWeb European Thematic Network. The goal of OntoWeb is to co-ordinate European research on the Semantic Web, Tim Berners Lee’s vision for supporting agent interoperability and providing logical inferences over the World Wide Web. OntoWeb currently comprises 81 organizations, drawn…
