The Assisted Electronic Communications project recently hosted its first nursing communications workshop here in KMi. A team of senior nurses from Kettering General Hospital worked on the AEC prototype in the Clutch Masterclass facility of the Centre for New Media in KMi on the 30th November, 2000. The AEC project is funded by the UK…
Today saw the launch of Alice – a joint E-Commerce venture between KMi and the Icelandic Internet company INNN. The goal of this project is to make internet shopping a personalised experience – like visiting a traditional local corner store where customer specific recommendations and advice are given. Building on existing KMi knowledge and web…
KMi is playing a key role in the formative stages of the Learning Federation, a proposed government/industry/academic coalition meeting in Washington DC on November 28th and 29th. The two-day brainstorm brings together high-profile representatives from industry, academia, and particularly the Cognitive and Learning Sciences Community, including Hal Abelson, John Anderson, John Seely Brown, Don Norman,…
Three KMi related stories appeared today in the Open Eye supplement of the Independent newspaper. The first story described how the new £7million AKT project would allow organisations to share knowledge effectively amongst collaborating workers. This project will use a number of KMi knowledge and web technologies which have been developed in previous EU funded…
Professor Tom Vincent was honoured today in a KMi tribute ceremony which marked the opening of the Vincent Wing. The wing, Berrill Level 4 South, houses Professor Vincent’s Multimedia Enabling Technogies Group and the newly-funded Wolfson Centre for New Media. As co-founder and Deputy Director of KMi, Professor Vincent has enjoyed 6 years of substantial…
KMi today welcomed the full project team of the EPSRC-sponsored Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Project. AKT is one of the select EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Centres, funded for 6 years and a total project cost of �7M. The project begins formally on 1st October 2000, with today’s meeting helping to establish the full ‘modus operandi’. The…
The EU-IST programme project PEARL, that is developing a system to enable teaching experiments to be conducted remotely over the Web, holds a key meeting in Dublin this week (20-23 September 2000). This will be a chance for the new project staff at the OU: Chetz Colwell (based in KMi) and Terry di Paolo (based…
The ACM Conferences Hypertext 2000 and Digital Libraries 2000 were hosted in San Antonio, TX, from May the 29th to June the 7th. This year KMi was represented by Simon Buckingham Shum (lecturer) and Clara Mancini (Ph.D. research student), respectively presenting at Digital Library and Hypertext. At HT, themes particularly relevant to KMi included automatic…
The climax of the first phase of the Open University and Living Archive Millennium Awards Scheme was reached on Saturday, 17 June, when nearly 200 parents and guests attended a ceremony in the Berrill Lecture Theatre for the presentation of Millennium Fellowship Certificates to the parents who had successfully completed their projects. The presentations were…
Peter Whalley’s FirstFlight Web Site has topped the Google search engine index, an achievement which relies entirely on the global popularity of the FirstFlight site itself. Unlike other search engines which make use of keywords and other ‘meta tag’ indexing operations, the highly popular Google site relies upon the number of links from the rest…
