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…
Interesting phone converstation Rick Flint [mailto:rick.flint@skynet.be] Lead passed on by (c.beasley@open.ac.uk) Cheryl Beasley at the Brussels regional centre. Rick is working for East West Consulting as a business development manager, with a particular focus on projects in the Tacis countries. He is interested in applying for the e-societies project in the South Causasus and has,…
A party of 8 from BNFL will be coming to a workshop on 6th May. The visit is hosted by Corous, and will involve a KMi new technologies and semantic web slot. They are pretty much entirely ftf trainers and Corous is hoping to get them to change that…
Prof. Geoff Peters brought Drs. Ahmad Towhidi and Abdolaziz Abdollahi of the University of Shiraz (home of the grape?) to KMi as part of their visit to the University. There is a lot of pent-up demand in Iran which the British Council is keen to tap. Dr. Towhidi was enquiring about KMi taking a few…
Interesting bunch of folks gathered together to tell Pat Manson and her team in the Technology-enhanced learning: cultural heritage Unit at the European Commission about what should be the funding priorities for the next phase (pre–7) of funding. N. Balacheff (from the French MediaLab at Grenoble; tied up just the minute with trying to get…
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLAC) executive ran an away day today at the OU. They had their own business meeting, lunch in KMI with Paul Clarke and a tour of the new library. PJS, PKS and ZZ took part in the KMi visit. Chris Batt is a fan, and has been before ……
Wearable PCs for healthcare provision: that's one of the themes presented by KMi PhD student Yanna Vogiazou, who spoke at the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks held at Imperial College in London on 6th-7th April. The aim of the workshop was to address general issues related to using wearable/wireless and implantable…
A major new feature has now been added to ROSTRA, the premiere news dissemination agent. Each ROSTRA, or cluster thereof, can have a library of commonly-used media (still images or QuickTime movies) that authors can use in their stories, if they either don't have suitable images to upload with their material, are unable to upload…
PJS and I talked to Michael Mulquin, CEO of IS Communications, as to possible involvement with the Oakgrove Millennium Community – being built right next door. Oakgrove is a long term development of 1850 dwellings at high density which will have an integral broadband infrastructure. Each millennium development has a theme and for this one…
SUMMARY: Roger Fennemore or colleague can spend 1-day-per-week assisting 'KMi.com' operations… IPMO to underwrite first 6mos. consultancy. It took 2 months to have the 5 min. conversation with Alan Bassindale. [sorry, must be read from bottom to top to appreciate] —–Original Message—– From: M.Eisenstadt Sent: 23 March 2004 14:26 To: Kmi-Management-Board-List Subject: Fennemore deal update……
