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…
Today it has been reported that Media Labs Europe is to close down on the 1st February. The supposedly self funding, research laboratory in Dublin, which was started by the Irish Government and MIT in 2000 has failed to attract the 10 million euros a year it needs to survive, and neither the Irish Government…
KMi today was the host of a large group of Year 8/9 students (aged about 12-13 years) from Lord Grey School. The students were taking part in the KMi Making the News (MTN) Project. This project is funded by the Department of Education and is being run through the East of England Broadband Network (E2BN)….
Dnyanesh Rajpathak has recently attended the International Conference of Formal Ontology in Information Systems hosted in Torino, Italy (Nov. 04-06, 2004) to present a paper titled “An Ontological Formalization of the Planning Task”, jointly authored with Prof. Enrico Motta. In this FOIS conference only 28 papers being accepted out of 68 papers were submitted. The…
It's really weird – imagine having icons according to who of your friends gets closest to each extension. Maybe my mother could be .exe ;-))) Anyway… Take this quiz to find out which file extension most closely matches your personality. Related Links: the quiz is here…
12th October we were visited by Joe Nairn from the Rochester Institute of Technology as part of the OU's application for accreditatation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Peter Scott and Peter Sharpe hosted the visit and left him well impressed by the technologies employed. Accreditataion will boost the standing of OU courses…
The first week in November will see KMi�s Semantic Web Services infrastructure, IRS-III, presented for the third time as part of a tutorial. Previous tutorials were held in conjunction with the AIMSA (Artificial Intelligence, Methods, Systems and Applications) conference in Varna, Bulgaria, and in conjunction with the NetObjectDays conference in Erfurt, Germany. In these full-day…
Kathleen, former OU Telephonist and wife of Lewis McCann, a member of the KMi IT Support Team, is featured on the BBC Family History website as part of the new BBC 2 Series, Who Do You Think You Are?, starting BBC 2 Tuesday 12th October, 9:00 pm. The series features celebrities researching their family trees,…
The really cool part of the FlashMeeting environment that lets you record your meetings Memo, now has the added facility to let you edit the recordings and add annotations. Memo is a tool that presents the replays of recorded FlashMeetings. It shows you a visualization of the meeting as a map of who spoke when,…
Vlad Tanasescu from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland will be in KMi for 6 months from early September working on personal agents within an EGoverment context using one of KMi's tools for semantic web services
