KMi research student Yuangui Lei successfully defended her doctoral dissertation during a thesis viva this Friday. She has been recommended for the award of a Ph.D. after a list of editorial revisions. Yuanguis thesis, entitled An ontology-based approach to web site design and development ', addresses the design of customized data-intensive web sites. The major…
The internet search engine firm, Google are just about to launch a video blogging tool. With an ever incresing number of people owning web cameras combined with the popularity of Blogs, the firm sees potential in this market. The concept of video blogging is not however a new one to KMi. The Rostra news sytem…
Our policy for the use of the KMi Hexagon room is that it is a *Private*, *Working* room only accessible by members of KMi. All members of KMi have an account, can get a camera, and can join this working space to share presence and lightweight working interactions. (If you are not in there just…
Fantastic result today for the KMi six a side football team as they beat the Group C favourites 1-0 to go top of the table! Tocsix are a big strong team (as John nearly found out!) and put the pressure on from the beginning with a shot just wide. But Internzionale fought back, with Jan…
KMi Internetzionale 2-0 The Reelers (Earth Sciences). A great start to the KMi six-a-side football season with a 2-0 win against the Reelers! The sun was shining and the pitch looked muddier than our cancelled game earlier in the week… but the game was on. Internetzionale rushed forward from the beginning, and we had Alessio,…
KMi Internetzionale vs Tocsix KMi's six a side football campaign started today in farcical style. After 1 minute and 52 seconds, the game was stopped by Estates, who declared the pitch was not in good condition. Ah well! maybe a lucky escape for KMi, who were missing their goalie today. In the 1:52 of play,…
Is it true? Will it right? In the years since the first “test tube baby” was born in 1978, physicians and scientists from RYT Hospital have been working to develop a viable technique for the successful impregnation of male individuals. Mr. Lee is the first human subject to attempt this procedure… Related Links: The Science…
Milk powder tins at the ready, five KMI members headed off into the countryside for a day's practical wireless workshop. Under the watchful eye of John from Deckspace, the tins were turned into directional antenna for our laptops, and field testing commenced. The practical wireless workshop developed from Mark Gaved's PhD work and gave KMi…
Today marks the kickoff of a two-day meeting of key partners in the ELeGI Consortium – the 23-member £5M “European Learning Grid Infrastructure” Project. The meeting will bring together the ELeGI Scientific and Technical Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Work Package and Action Line leaders in order to assess the current state of the project, and plan…
Grassroots initiated community network developers from around the UK met up in Lincolnshire on January 19th for the first CAN Colloquium. Mark Gaved, KMi PhD student attended as part of his research, meeting community groups that have developed their own local computer network to share high speed access and develop community resources. The Community Broadband…
