On November 14th, Harith Alani, Yulan He, and Matthew Rowe, travelled to Koblenz in Germany to attend the kick-off meeting of the new ROBUST project. ROBUST is a 3 year, 6.8M EU project with a consortium of 10 partners from 6 countries. Online communities have emerged in all areas of society, and their use is…
KMi Senior Lecturer Harith Alani gave a keynote at the 3rd Social Data on the Web workshop which was collocated with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference in Shanghai last week. In his talk, Dr Alani highlighted the rapidly expanding market for integrating social and sensor data networks, and described the latest results of his…
In June 2010 the PHAROS project was awarded the Italian Prize for “ICMT Innovation” in the category “Best practises in IT-driven convergence”. KMi was a key part of the EU-funded project that finished at the end of 2009. Members of the MMiS group provided image/video analysis, annotation and content-based search facilities for the audiovisual search…
The open network of excellence STELLAR and the European Association for Technology-Enhanced Learning EA-TEL e.V. have prized the best papers in the field at the 5th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning. EA-TEL president and KMi director Peter Scott awarded the best paper presented at the conference to first author Myroslava Dzikovska. She won the prize…
The AIMSA conference series has provided a biennial forum for the presentation of AI research and development since 1984, and is the premier event of its kind in the Balkan Region. The conference, which is always held in Bulgaria, covers a wide variety of topics in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines and also provides conduit…
KMi has long been associated with the East of England Broadband Network, helping E2bN deliver FlashMeeting videoconferencing and the Making the News schools’ journalism portal to all of the primary and secondary education providers in the E2bN area. As part of this ongoing relationship KMi’s Dr Peter Scott and Alan Fletcher delivered key workshops at…
Anna De Liddo, Sofia Angeletou, and Fridolin Wild have been giving a guest lecture on KMi social networking tools at the CISCO telepresence labs in London. The guest lecture was held for students of the MODUL university in Vienna, as part of a course on online collaboration and virtual communities. Related Links: CISCO PR material
The week of June 7, 2010 saw over 5000 developers and 1000 Apple engineers converge on San Fransisco for the Apple World Wide Developers Conference. The Open University team from LTS and KMi was lead by KMi Director Peter Scott. Amongst the new things announced at the event by Steve Jobs in his keynote speech…
Following the successful deployment of the Live Social Semantics application at ESWC 2009 and at HyperText 2009, Dr Harith Alani from KMi, along with collaborators from SocioPatterns and City University, were invited to relaunch the Live Social Semantics application at the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) which took place in Crete, May 31-June 3,…
The annual HRD Conference of the CIPD at Olympia, London is the largest UK Training and Development event of its kind and KMi’s Alan Fletcher hosted the ‘Learning Technologies of the Future’ presentation The conference, which included over 30 sessions across two days invited industry and education experts and HR professionals to share their knowledge…
