Last Wednesday (7th March 2007), KMi’s Marta Sabou and Mathieu d’Aquin have been invited to discuss through FlashMeeting with Master students at the Utrecht University (Netherlands) in the context of a weekly course about the Semantic Web. This session was mainly focused on the problems of ontology integration and ontology learning, on which students have…
Pupils from Year 6 of St.Mary’s School, the big winners in this year’s annual Making The News Competition, were invited to BBC Television Centre in London this week as recognition for their media and reporting skills. Making The News, based on KMi’s ROSTRA news disemination agent, is in use by hundreds of schools across the…
Today we have finally released the visualization tools that we have been using to try to understand the structure of virtual events in our FlashMeeting work. Currently these tools are only available for meetings that have been syndicated as free for public reuse; but we will be releasing a version for private events presently. We…
The latest version of the Compendium visual hypermedia system for conceptual modelling has just been released after extensive testing. It introduces a powerful new tagging interface, alnog with a host of minor improvements. With this release we depart from our previous practice of restricting beta releases to a small, select group before making the "production"…
The GlobalArgument.net project, led by KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum with former Australian cabinet minister Peter Baldwin, is an internet experiment in Computer-Supoprted Argumentation of complex social, technical and political debates. "Players" from around the world use their software tools to show how they would approach the analysis and communication of an issue, and discuss their…
KMi members Chris Valentine and Tom Heath spent Friday (27th Oct) lunchtime hacking the RSS1.0 (RDF) feeds of news items on the KMi web site, with the aim of bringing more Semantics to the news items KMi publishes. Topics and authors of news items are now described using the FOAF vocabulary, with links made to…
A KMi pilot project has enabled a mobility impaired student to participate in the Earth Sciences summer school for course SXR339 "Ancient Mountains". The KMi developed ERA (Enabling Remote Access) System provided a wireless link to enable the student to view live video and direct a geologist to take photos of areas that she'd not…
Adventurer and long-time friend of KMi Lorenzo Gariano this week set off on his second attempt to summit Everest and at the same time has flown into new unrest into Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. A seven-party alliance of Maoist rebels has called for a four-day nation-wide shutdown beginning this Thursday and a rally in…
Blogging takes another step with this “post your own news site” which is interestingly hosted in Canada. NowPublic is a site where you can publish news about events you care about. It's easy and let's face it, you are more interesting than your television. You can use NowPublic to share your photos and videos, get…
Intrepid Italian mountaineer Lorenzo Gariano (ex-KMi plant life guru) made a successful and popular presentation on the evening of Wednesday 12th October to an invited audience of around 45, also recorded and webcast using KMi's Stadium system. Lorenzo is to repeat his trip to Everest in the spring of 2006 in the hope, this time,…
