Tamara Sumner and Mike Wright of KMi were recently invited to give a talk to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research’s (UCAR) Office of Programs (UOP) in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. Over a morning and part of an afternoon, an enthusiastic audience were delighted to hear about The Open University, and the research projects being persued…
John Domingue and Tamara Sumner presented papers at APCHI’98 (Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction) held in Japan on 15-17th July. John presented a paper co-authored with Peter Scott about KMi’s intelligent news server, Planet – the system in which this news item is stored. Tamara presented a paper co-authored with KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum on…
The London Mathematical Society has launched its flagship electronic journal, the “LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics” [http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm]. KMi’s D3E Project (Tammy Sumner, Simon Buckingham Shum, Mike Wright and Malcolm Story) worked with the LMS in defining requirements (e.g. internet infrastructure, journal design and staffing), and interviewing programmers. During 1997, the LMS web programmer Adam…
Four groups of women studying for an NVQ in Media and IT skills have undertaken a crash course in internet skills, taking them from their first experience of browsing the web to web page design and site maintenance in 12 hours over 4 days. During this time the separate groups have created their own homepages,…
From 1st July to 1st October 1998, KMi Research Fellow Marco Ramoni will be working as Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, one of the world’s leading laboratories in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, according to a recent Business Week survey. The Experimental Knowledge Systems Laboratory, directed by Paul…
5 June’98: John Rieman (Boulder, Colorado) presented an innovative drawing package called JSketch, designed to support the rough sketching that is so crucial to initial, creative design work. He contrasted this to conventional drawing and painting programs which obstruct the free-form lines that underpins informal sketching by producing inelegant, or over-precise forms. Abstract and contact…
5 June’98: John Rieman (Boulder, Colorado) presented an innovative drawing package called JSketch, designed to support the rough sketching that is so crucial to initial, creative design work. He contrasted this to conventional drawing and painting programs which obstruct the free-form lines that underpins informal sketching by producing inelegant, or over-precise forms. Abstract and contact…
Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Minister for State for Further and Higher Education, was the guest of honour at the opening of a new Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at North Birmingham College (NBC) on the 1 May 1998. LRC provides excellent facilities for staff and students. It is the electronic hub for the College. The Centre has…
A special issue of JIME went live today for open peer review, following several months’ intensive author-reviewer debate: Authoring Tools & The Educational Object Economy: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/ The issue’s concerns range from multimedia authoring tools for educational applications, to authoring communities struggling to share interoperable components, to new challenges and business opportunities for publishers. An integrating…
A site under the auspices of The American National Science Foundation has listed FirstFlight among its hotlist of education resources for schools. The widely-regarded ‘Exploratorium‘ posts a monthly list of ten cool sites: ‘FirstFlight – This visually attractive site explores the Wright brothers’ first flight. You can check out the experiments that lead to the…
