The wide-ranging impact of KMi-inspired research and development has been the subject of a recent report to The Open University’s Learning and Teaching Innovations Committee. The report, by KMi’s Arthur Stutt and Stuart Watt, describes no fewer than 36 different activities emanating from KMi that have a direct impact on the future directions of Open…
Our colleagues in BP Amoco have clearly been putting in overtime recently to make the most of their new insights from working with the lab on Knowledge and Media. There are already a number of Planet clones, designed by the lab for use in the Open University and for other clients and research communities eg….
KMi Director, Professor Marc Eisenstadt, is currently in the US for a Board Meeting of the new US Open University. Not wanting to be out of touch for too long with colleagues back in the UK, Marc is taking advantage of new in-flight facilities. The following message, together with picture, has just arrived from him:…
Today sees the launch of the first proper release of Meet-O-Matic: a simple Web-based cross-platform meeting arranger. Borrowing ideas from the previous Luigi program, Meet-O-Matic is a significantly simpler and easier to use meeting arranger program. If you want to organise a meeting, simply go to the main page (http://meetomatic.open.ac.uk/), and use the calendar interface…
On the 25th March 1999 a Stadium Webcast team went down to the Wytch Farm BP Amoco oilfield in Dorset to help their Water and Gas Control project capture and share some of their expert knowledge with colleagues through the company. In two webcasts lasting about 40 minutes each, 3 oilfield engineers spoke live through…
The Office for Students with Disabilities are starting to mail CD-ROMs to blind students in a new service for 1999. In the past the only alternative to printed units were audiocassettes, but research by Professor Tom Vincent’s Multimedia Enabling Technologies group within the Knowledge Media Institute has brought together electronic text and digital audio in…
Christmas ’98 sees the launch of an innovative scheme linking schools in Milton Keynes with churches, the Open University, and the Internet. A ‘wireless internet connection’ provides high-speed access for entire school networks by relaying signals from Heronsgate, Denbigh and Loughton schools via Christ the Cornerstone and Bow Brickhill Church steeples and onwards to the…
"Hank", the new cognitive modelling language developed in KMi by Paul Mulholland and Stuart Watt, proved itself at this year’s D309 Cognitive Psychology residential school.Four groups of students took part in Hank’s first live trial, learning the language from scratch and developing a small psychological model in it over the course of two days. All…
With the backdrop of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98), the Open University presented the new version of Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer (BKD), the knowledge discovery program able to extract Bayesian Networks from (possibly incomplete) databases, developed by the joint effort of the Knowledge Media Institute (Marco Ramoni) and the Department…
KMi Research Fellow Dr. Marco Ramoni has announced the launch of the latest version of his popular Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer (BKD). BKD is a data mining tool which can extract reusable knowledge from databases, using sound and accountable statistical methods, even when data is missing or incomplete. BKD Version 0.1 and Version 0.2 (Unix, AIX,…
