Today, KMi celebrated Davide Guidi’s completion of the first half of his PhD with us; he will now continue his studies at Imperial College, London. Davide works in the Open Knowledge project, in the design and implementation of PowerMagpie which is a Web browser extension to handle Semantic content. He is also in the Watson…
Images derived from a Martian meteorite have recently been added to the prototype virtual microscope developed by KMi researchers Jon Linney & Chris Valentine. This latest web-based version of a petrological microscope has been developed in collaborated with the departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences and LTS. The final course version is being developed by…
After over 7 years at the OU, Alex Little is leaving to serve in Ethiopia on a VSO programme. Alex has been a member of KMi’s team working on the OU-wide OpenLearn project since 2006, and most recently, worked on the new SocialLearn project. He developed the MSG social presence tool while working with Marc…
KMi today celebrated the upcoming wedding of long-time KMi researcher Martin Dzbor, who is to marry girlfriend Zuzana in TrebiĀov, Slovakia in a couple of days time. Professor Motta presented a unique gift voucher and card signed by many members of the department. Martin works as research scientist and technical manager on the massive 4-year…
The Personal Inquiry project has just completed a very successful participatory design workshop with Oakgrove School, asking students to imagine what would make an exciting geography investigation. Fifteen students and their teachers met with Open University members of the Personal Inquiry project, and project partners David Crellin from Sciencescope and Henk van Aswegen from Milton…
Professor Stefan Rueger today presented his inaugural lecture, titled ‘More Than a Thousand Words’. The title alludes to his area of expertise – research into practical and efficient search methods for Multimedia Information Retrieval, ie, video search engines, image databases, spoken document retrieval, music retrieval, query languages and query mediation. Prof Rueger joined KMi from…
Paul Alexander is currently representing KMi at the first annual VMworld Europe conference in Cannes. VMworld is all about server virtualization and consolidation. Why do KMi care about this? Server virtualization has the potential to radically change our whole IT infrastructure in the future. We are able to run multiple operating systems on the same…
On the 14th February, KMi hosted the annual Multimedia and Knowledge Management (MMKM) workshop, with members of the network coming from around the world to expose their work and help give new perspectives in this area of research. Guest speakers including Dr Alex Hauptmann from CMU, Prof Thomas Seidl from RWTH Aachen, Dr Ken Wood,…
KMi members volunteered their services to local environment charity The Greensand Trust today to help build a boardwalk, made from recycled plastic, in Leighton Buzzard. Ledburn Pit is one of a number of worked-out sand quarries in the Leighton area and the GST are using money from Landfill Tax and other sources, plus volunteer labour,…
Earlier this month Prof Stefan Rueger became KMi’s first London Technology Network Business Fellow. Stefan’s responsibilities include raising an inventory of technologies and educational activities for the Centre of Research in Computing, identifying a wide range of opportunities for interacting with industry and facilitate university-business interactions. The London Technology Network (http://www.ltnetwork.org/) promotes innovative collaborations and…
