SpaceShipOne, the first private manned spacecraft, made a flawless takeoff over the Mojave Desert this morning on its way into the history books. The rocket plane was carried aloft under the belly of its carrier jet, White Knight, for an hour long ascent. The craft, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan, aiming to reach 100km…
SpaceShipOne, the first private manned spacecraft, made a flawless takeoff over the Mojave Desert this morning on its way into the history books. The rocket plane was carried aloft under the belly of its carrier jet, White Knight, for an hour long ascent. The craft, built by aviation pioneer Burt Rutan, aiming to reach 100km…
CitiTag, the wireless multiplayer game designed and developed jointly between KMi, HPLabs Bristol, and the Royal College of Art, was rolled out to the streets of Bristol today, garnering an enthusiastic reception among the players. The premise of CitiTag is that a game of ultimate simplicity (tag), can be enhanced by empowering players with 'augmented…
The technical tests of the CitiTag infrastructure in Bristol went very well today! Marc Eisenstadt, Kevin Quick and I joined the Hewlett Packard team in order to test the basic networking around our FlashCom application under the HP Mobile Bristol Framework. CitiTag, the city wifi, PDA, huge scale, GPS-enabled, tag game designed by KMi's Yanna…
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Gareth Davies (Advisor Cambs LEA) said: We are … interested in building these facilities into the prototype of the Kids Portal we are creating with DigitalBrain. So far we have 100+ schools signed up who are interested in this development. However, as we discussed, there is no point in doing this if there is no…
In October/November 2003, Dr Andrew Treloar and Professor Sally Joy from Monash University in Australia visited the OU to discuss Information Management and related topics. Andrew Treloar's final report of the study tour is now online. It has been mailed to the following universities in the US who participated in the study: UCLA Indiana University…
Herewith a para contribution for the OU development office on the subject of eLearning from me… —- The Open University is a Virtual University. All modern universities are now keen to exploit the virtual and the online: seeking to understand the impact of the virtual learning experience; to explore how new technology can reach into…
Herewith a para contribution for the OU development office on the subject of eLearning from me… —- The Open University is a Virtual University. All modern universities are now keen to exploit the virtual and the online: seeking to understand the impact of the virtual learning experience; to explore how new technology can reach into…
Alexandre Gonçalves from Brazil. Currently, a researcher in Stela Group, a research group linked to Federal University of Santa Catarina. Here to finish his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr Enrico Motta. Research subject based on text mining integrated with ontology and how this approach can offer models to the discovery and management…
