KMi friend and ex-student Tom Heath has got married! After many years Tom has tied the knot with Livs in Sheffield, and celebrated with a fine party in the Peak District. Michele Pasin and Mark Gaved were on hand to congratulate Tom on behalf of KMi and his many friends at the Open University. Congratulations,…
Simon Overell recently published his PhD thesis Geographic Information Retrieval: Classification, Disambiguation and Modelling following his viva in April that he passed with flying colours. With this PhD project finished, Simon’s primary supervisor Professor Stefan Rüger of KMi, can now look back at eight eminently successful PhD supervisions at his former institution Imperial College London,…
Professor Stefan Rüger of KMi has been invited to give a keynote at the ImageCLEF Workshop on Visual Information Retrieval Evaluation in Corfu, Greece, on 29 September 2009. ImageCLEF is the cross-language image retrieval track which is run as part of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital…
The Sedgwick museum in Cambridge has recently opened a new permanent exhibition entitled ‘Darwin the Geologist’ telling the story of the rock specimens that Darwin collected on the Beagle voyage and how he analysed and used them in his early scientific work. Alongside the original microscope used by Darwin the museum are using an adapted…
This week saw the kickoff meeting of the mEducator project, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Funded as Best Practice Network under the eContentplus programme of the European Commission after receiving outstanding review feedback, 13 partner institutions will collaborate throughout the next 3 years within mEducator to provide innovative, service-oriented eLearning solutions enabling specialized state-of-the-art…
More than ever the Global Economy and Society depends on the Internet – all major sectors of industry, from transport and banking to entertainment and education are moving online. With today�s 1 billion Internet users soon to be joined by 3 billion mobile online devices Internet usage will need to become fully pervasive, incorporating a…
The STI Semantic Web Services Winter Retreat was held in Mösern in the Tirol area of Austria last week. KMi’s Barry Norton was project coordinator and a tutor on Semantic Execution Environments and other tutors delivering Semantic Web and Services content were Graham Hench, Jacek Kopecký, Katharina Siorpaes, Dumitru Roman, Ioan Toma, Nathalie Steinmetz and…
Last week saw the final review of the EC-funded STREP project LHDL which can only be described as an overwhelming success. Running for three years since February 2006, the major mission of LHDL was to further develop interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus and to create…
150 Year 8 students from Oakgrove School have successfully completed geography projects exploring microclimates around the school grounds with the help of Personal Inquiry (PI). Students have been investigating the different local climate conditions around the school, using Sciencescope sensors to measure conditions, and guided by an Activity Guide designed by the PI team. The…
Long-term friend of KMi, Lorenzo Gariano, has finally completed a 12-year quest to complete the "Seven Summits" challenge – that is to climb the highest mountain on each continent – with a successful first-attempt climb of Vinson Massif on Antarctica. He becomes only the third Italian in history to have completed the Seven Summits, after…
