Last weeks workshop titled UbiComp at the Urban Frontier showed a diversity of research ideas and innovative projects – all at the intersection of ubiquitous and social computing. The workshop programme was particularly focused on applications for the urban environment. Designers, researchers, computer scientists as well as architects and urban planners were present, about 22…
The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 04) was located at the Universidad Politechnica de Valencia. ECAI is huge and incredibly diverse with 181 papers on topics ranging from agents to vision perception, 88 posters and 17 workshops and up to six parallel sessions at any time, so it is pretty much impossible for one…
The home page on the SETI@home project, probably the most well-known distributed computing project on the planet, is currently featuring climateprediction.net in their news section: We urge all SETI@home to consider participating in Climateprediction.net. This will keep your computer busy (and earning credit) even when SETI@home has no work available. KMi is a key partner…
Kathleen, wife of Lewis McCann, a member of the KMi IT Support team has been chosen by the BBC to take part in a Digital Story Workshop. The free five day Workshop will take place in Kents Hill the week beginning 5th September. At the end of the workshop Kathleen will have produced a two…
Popular researcher Dave Bradbury today leaves KMi, his seventh position at the Open University, for a job in Oxford. “I always get drink” quips Dave on receiving a bottle of Glenfiddich malt scotch from Trevor Collins, together with a book, a box of chocolates, and a few John Lewis tokens.
A one off class in unarmed self defence applying the principles of Stav, taught by Stav Master Graham Butcher. Church, Wednesday 18th August, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, £5 per person. The class will concentrate on: Relaxation to speed up reflexes Using the five principles as effective strategies for self defence. The effects of focused concentration Methods…
Microsoft are in the process of releasing a major Windows XP update – SP2. This supposedly fixes a number of security flaws etc. So far the update has been made available to firms, but will soon be freely available. However it would appear the update may cause problems on some machine e.g. with some non-microsoft…
KMi’s first (hopefully annual) football fun night took place on Wednesday 4th August 2004. The event organised by KMi’s own “Wayne Rooney”, IT & Systems Manager Paul Alexander was to meet the Directors demand for a greater level of fitness due to late arrival in the morning after climbing the 300+ steps up the Berrill…
Yanna Vogiazou is currently visiting the MIT Media Lab for two weeks to work with Judith Donaths Sociable Media Group. On Wednesday 28 July, she gave a talk about her PhD work in the Media Lab, which was attended by people working on various areas within the Lab, including Donath and her group, Henry Lieberman,…
GPS has been crying out for decent recreational uses since its invention – now its here (or should that be 'everywhere'?). “A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches ind in this fun and exciting sport.” Related Links: Geocaching…
