A new project, called Personal Inquiry (PI), aims to help young people to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to understand and contribute to their changing world. The project, a collaboration between the Open University and the University of Nottingham, has been awarded nearly £1.2m from the Economic and Social Research Council and the…
A new project, funded by the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme, aims to develop a new generation geography e-learning product for the schools market. This two year project is being carried out in partnership with the City Discovery Centre, an internationally leading organisation in the delivery of stimulating and accessible learning in urban geography. The…
As the world keeps tagging, how can we integrate this collective intelligence on a Web-scale? KMi project Revyu joins the effort to find out The Web has seen a recent explosion in tagging – using keywords to annotate things. High profile examples include the sites Flickr for tagging photos, del.icio.us for bookmarking and tagging Web…
The source code for MSG is now available for developers to download and install on their own servers. MSG is a Web 2.0 application that allows you to access basic Instant Messaging functionality within a standard web browser. This makes it ideal for use in environments where software can not be installed, or on networks…
Italian climber and now long-time friend of KMi, Lorenzo Gariano has successfully climbed Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia – the six of his seven summits challenge. The photos shows him with Cliff Dargonne, who in climbing Carstensz, as now complete all seven peaks – the highest mountain on each continent. Related Links: Lorenzo’s Seven Summits website
KMi’s Hexagon is looking fairly festive at the moment… If you feel like wiping the snow off your Hex; throwing a snowball at someone; or just catching snowflakes you should come in! SO, if you have not dropped by the Hexagon room recently, you should check it out. All members of KMi have accounts. IF…
Last week a glowing final review report arrived for DIP the 3-year 16M Euro Integrated Project on Semantic Web Services. Although we have reported earlier that the final review had been a success it is unusual for an official EU document to be so full of praise. In the words of KMi’s Director, Enrico Motta:…
Maria joined KMi back in October 2000 when she was appointed as one of two Research Fellows to work on the EPSRC funded AKT Project, of which Enrico is the PI (Principle Investigator). She purposely moved from Mexico to the UK to take up the position. Note however that Maria is very familiar with the…
KMi’s Jianhan Zhu has built the winning Enterprise Search engine, beating 22 rivals at the prestigious Fifteenth Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006). TREC, held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, from 15th-17th November 2006, is the premier scientific forum for the comparative evaluation of search engine technology, and this year featured 107 groups participating from 17…
Today I was in London as an invited speaker on Design Rationale, helping to introduce the "Why?" dimensions of Requirements Engineering. The Institution of Engineering and Technology offered the seminar, entitled "Answering the Six Questions about Requirements": "As the applications of requirements is becoming increasingly popular, it is being applied to many aspects of systems…
