The Open University announced today a £5.65 million (US $9.9 million) Open Content Initiative (OCI) to make a selection of its learning materials available free of charge to educators and learners around the world. KMi's OCI team has played a key role in shaping this, and will be integrating its collaboration, presence and knowledge mapping…
The Open University announced today a £5.65 million (US $9.9 million) Open Content Initiative (OCI) to make a selection of its learning materials available free of charge to educators and learners around the world. KMi's OCI team has played a key role in shaping this, and will be integrating its collaboration, presence and knowledge mapping…
Whilst opening the new £6 million Queen Mother Research Centre for Applied Computing in Dundee Scotland, Princess Anne was invited in to her first worldwide “school” FlashMeeting. Looking on, only slightly bemused, she participated in a three way conference between Dundee, Bogota and Canada. According to Dr Nick Hine, who is coordinating the Scottish FlashMeeting…
Today the Dot.Kom project came to a very successful conclusion with the reviewers awarding a top score of 5 for 7 out of 14 features, including technical quality, and an average overall of 4.6. The project investigated the use of automatic information extraction in knowledge management. The project was coordinated by Fabio Ciravegna at the…
Bletchley Park Director Christine Large and Open University Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) Dr. Paul Clark launched the Bletchley Park Text service on Tuesday 24th May, along with some Year 3 and 4 pupils from Cold Harbour C of E School in Bletchley. Over 150 historical subject headings, relating to Bletchley Park, are displayed throughout the…
On Fri 25th Feb, 2005, Simon Buckingham Shum ran 3 hands-on, interactive sessions with 90 Year 5 pupils (9+10 yr olds) at Bushfield Middle School, Wolverton, Milton Keynes, introducing them to the joint work he's been doing with the Mobile Agents Project at NASA (as part of the e-Science CoAKTinG Project). Pupils were shown videos…
A parallel, object-orientated control language designed to introduce the ideas of control technology and robotics to the middle school classroom has just been released by KMi researchers Peter Whalley & Ben Hawkridge. The language and the graphic interface were designed to represent the notion of input-process-output that is central to basic robotics and control technology….
A parallel, object-orientated control language designed to introduce the ideas of control technology and robotics to the middle school classroom has just been released by KMi researchers Peter Whalley & Ben Hawkridge. The language and the graphic interface were designed to represent the notion of input-process-output that is central to basic robotics and control technology….
As part of the build-up to the 10th anniversary of the Knowledge Media Institute, today the KMi web design team have launched our new website. In our (now nearly) 10 years, the site has been through many design phases, each reflecting the cutting edge in knowledge and media. Our last site concept was strong on…
On June 22, 2004, while Hollywood blockbuster “The Day After Tomorrow” is still in the cinemas, the climateprediction.net project is launching a new experiment exploring some of the science behind the film. The new phase of the project aims to investigate how predictions made for rising carbon dioxide might change if the thermo-haline circulation in…
