Dr John Domingue, deputy director of KMi and a leading member of the Semantic Web Community was recently interviewed by SemanticWeb.com . The interview deals with the specific KMi project as well as discussing the need for applying Semantic Web Services to the Web. Dr Domingue is leading KMi’s work in the field of Semantic…
KMi were happy to show support for this important opposition by appearing as part of the Channel 4 news story on the ELQ proposals. In brief, the govt. wants to remove all funding for students studying for a degree at the same level as one they already hold. For the OU this represents a significant…
Marc Eisenstadt co-founded KMi in 1995 and has pretty much dedicated his life to the lab ever since. The vision for the Open University to host a purely research based lab was revolutionary. The result was a small bunch of crazy academics in a hut trying to figure out how cool science could be woven…
MSG, the AJAX incarnation of BuddySpace Instant Messenger, this week adds video chat to round out its unique "Seven Opens" philosophy: Open Source code, Open University integration with the OpenLearn environment, OpenFire’s Jabber/XMPP server, Open Registration for all, Open Location to mashup with Google Maps, Open Embedding to encourage widget placement elsewhere, and now Open…
Jianhan Zhu’s award-winning Expert Search, notable for pinpointing people rather than just documents, is now available for mobile phone users via the OU Library’s innovative site. Dr. Zhu, a Research Fellow in KMi, has successfully deployed his technology again at this year’s TREC (Text Retrieval Conference), coming in the top 3 places in the automatic…
KMi has completed the first test phase of DYNIQX, an innovative search tool that pools results from multiple search engines, including academic repository sites that Google does not index. Unlike earlier ‘meta-search’ engines, DYNIQX uses a dynamic interface to add and remove results in real time as the user ‘tunes’ the query, thereby making the…
KMi tool FlashMeeting is shortly to be used by British school pupils to talk to International Space Station Astronaut Dr. Steve MacLean. The East of England Broadband Network have long been ‘customers’ of the FlashMeeting system and this particular instance is just one of a host of exciting and inventive uses UK schools have found…
KMi’s Barry Norton represented the SUPER project on the Business Process Management (BPM07) panel on the future of BPM alongside Jamie Cornes (SunCorp), Michael zur Muehlen (Stevens Institute), Barbara Pernici (Politechnico di Milano) and Steve Tieman (Estee Lauder) in Brisbane, Australia on 26th September. Barry stressed the role of semantics and planned use of Web…
The Open Education 2007 conference, held in Utah University, focused on localizing and learning. Apart from Europe, UK and USA, open education is now provided in a variety of developing countries, such as India, Nepal and several Himalayan villages. Interestingly, open content licensing is strict in several European countries, which leaves the UK at the…
Dr Dawei Song and Prof. Stefan Rueger have been awarded a significant grant from the EPSRC, placing KMi as the lead university in a three year, £1m research project that aims to change the paradigm of information retrieval on the web. Their bid, ranked second out of 60 fundable proposals at the recent ICT Prioritisation…
