OU staff are invited to take part in an event to put them and their families ‘on the map’ as part of a scheme to create a ‘portrait‘ of Milton Keynes. The OU/Living Archive Clutch club scheme is part of the Portrait of the Nation & the Face of Milton Keynes event being staged until…
KMi was invited to present its innovative Journal of Interactive Media in Education to an expert conference, Change & Continuity in Scientific Publishing, convened under the auspices of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Simon Buckingham Shum joined other Editors of leading electronic journals covering diverse disciplines to share experiences, and discuss future…
On Friday 15 June 2001, KMi hosted a workshop on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to change practice in the National Health Service. The workshop was organized by the NHS Information and Communication Research Initiative (ICTRI – http://www.dis.port.ac.uk/ictri). The workshop was opened by the programme management team at the Department of Health,…
The 10th international world wide web conference is this week in Hong Kong (http://www10.org). It is running in conjunction here with the 7th Hong Kong Web Symposium (http://www.hkwebsym.org.hk/2001). And, spookily enough there is a big pan-Asia streaming media symposium running right next door! After 10 years of the web, the ACM have finally granted this…
The second worldwide virtual degree ceremony from the Open University was webcast live on April 18th 2001 at 15:00 GMT/UT. The live ceremony included chat, slides and animations as well as audio and video from the Berrill Lecture Theatre in Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. Apart from staff on stage, the auditorium itself was…
Yesterday, the Assisted Electronic Communication (AEC) project team were down at the Institute of Health Sciences, City University in London. They were presenting at the 3rd International Conference on Advances in the Delivery of Care, “eHealth: a futurescope”. The AEC project is a joint initiative of the Centre for New Media in KMi, the Institute…
Over the last three days members of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium attended a workshop in KMi to construct ‘AKT-0’. AKT-0 is a preliminary experiment to explore what types of web based knowledge services can be offered by integrating existing tools within the consortium. KMi Planet and KMi’s library of associated knowledge models provided…
In the birthplace of the World Wide Web – CERN, Geneva – an international workshop was held last week to discuss future models for disseminating and validating scholarly research over the Web. Simon Buckingham Shum and Gary Li were invited to present their work on Web-based, conversational peer review, as used in the Journal of…
The Director of the Bletchley Park Trust, Ms Christine Large, presented Millennium Fellowship certificates to parents with children at local schools to recognise the computing skills they have gained in an innovative on-line community history project. 97 parents from Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and South Northamptonshire received their awards on Saturday, 10 February. They are the…
Today saw the launch of the Compendium Institute, a website to link the growing practitioner/researcher community using the Compendium technique for knowledge management. “Compendium provides a methodological framework, plus an evolving suite of tools, for collective sense-making and group memory. Validated in both small and large scale business projects, it is the result of over…
