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Working in public can be cool!

In the recent frenzy of bid writing for the last round of the current EU framework, Hexagon has again shown us a new face. As the bid deadline approached, our EuroScholar bid team (as you would expect) started firing out more and more urgent emails wrt bits of work that we still needed to do…

A new doctor!

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. Yuangui’s thesis, entitled ‘An ontology-based approach to web site design and development &#39, addresses the design of customized data-intensive web sites. The major…

Google to launch Video Blogging

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…

The KMi Hexagon room now admits guests.

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…

KMi Internetzionale 1 – 0 Tocsix

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

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,…

Kicked off by the parkies!

KMi Internetzionale vs Tocsix KMi&#39s 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,…

Male pregnancy

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…

KMi Wireless Workshop

Milk powder tins at the ready, five KMI members headed off into the countryside for a day&#39s 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&#39s PhD work and gave KMi…

Learning Grid 2-Day Gig in 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…