Princeton, NJ and Milton Keynes, UK — November 12, 1997 – Voxware, Inc. (Nasdaq: VOXW) and the Open University today announced their agreement to license Voxware speech and audio compression technology for use in developing environments for the Open University’s large-scale, interactive educational events over the Internet. Voxware, Inc. is a premier developer of speech…
Having watched their control-buggy spend several years going up and down a short wooden maze, the children of Heronsgate School decided to build a more interesting environment. Their small-scale Mars landscape, (complete with cave and evidence of rock paintings!) has now been moved to the KMi, and the Heronsgate children can control their buggy through…
Having watched their control-buggy spend several years going up and down a short wooden maze, the children of Heronsgate School decided to build a more interesting environment. Their small-scale Mars landscape, (complete with cave and evidence of rock paintings!) has now been moved to the KMi, and the Heronsgate children can control their buggy through…
As part of ongoing provision of course material for print-disabled students, both on CD-ROM and the Internet, METg member Chris Valentine has been converting the OU Students’ Newspaper “Sesame” for Web presentation. In a press announcement from the editor: “Sesame can now be read by print-disabled students linked up to the Web at http://met.open.ac.uk/sesame/. The…
Dearing Report Discussion Site: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/Dearing/ D3E (Digital Document Discourse Environment) has been used to generate a web site to serve as a forum for national discussion of the Dearing Report into Higher Education. The report’s 93 recommendations to the government will be influential in shaping HE in the UK, and many bodies who submitted evidence…
Children at a primary school in Milton Keynes are investigating the Martian landscape using their own Pathfinder buggy – courtesy of Peter Whalley’s Hyperbuggy software. Using pictures of the Mars mission from NASA’s Pathfinder site, pupils at Heronsgate school have recreated the Mars rover’s surroundings and are navigating them using their own buggy. The buggy…
The “Digital Document Discourse Environment” (D3E) has been used to design and publish a special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, focusing on World Wide Web Usability, just published at: http://www.hbuk.co.uk/ap/ijhcs/webusability Published in parallel with the conventional paper issue, this special issue provides readers with the full articles in HTML and Adobe Acrobat…
KMi’s experimental “Digital Document Discourse Environment” (D3E) is now being used by the OU’s Office of Technology Development to foster University-wide discussion about the Course Appraisal Model. D3E is a web-based discussion/debate enviroment in which the documents being discussed are embedded in the same environment as the discussion, to ensure a tight coupling between the…
Information Society uses information and generates data: companies store their transactions with costumers and suppliers, hospitals keep track of their patients’ histories, public institutions record the behavior of citizens with respect to taxes, justice, health-care. All this information is stored in large and fast-growing databases. These databases represent a management challenge and an invaluable wealth:…
Fresh from plaudits by the California Institute of Technology, Peter Whalley’s FirstFlight site now has a states-side mirror at the University of Urbana-Champaign at Illinois, home of the NCSA. Sections of the site are being reflected at “To Fly is Everything” the virtual museum of aviation at Urbana-Champaign. In particular, the simulation of the Wright…
