Bernie Rickinson (Institute of Materials) visited today with Mike Fitzpatrick and Nigel Pigott. Gave him a demo of a few fun things like hex and buddyspace + stadium + magpie etc. He was very interested in the Bletchley park stuff with mobile phones. We are looking into joint stuff we can do to access the…
Bernie Rickinson (Institute of Materials) visited today with Mike Fitzpatrick and Nigel Pigott. Gave him a demo of a few fun things like hex and buddyspace + stadium + magpie etc. He was very interested in the Bletchley park stuff with mobile phones. We are looking into joint stuff we can do to access the…
Up here to sign an OU memorandum of agreement (basically saying that Shell folks can buy OU courses as part of their Shell learning budgets); Adam and Janni came to KMi to see me and then went to see Iain Gilmour (Earth Sci)and John Oates (FELS). Janni was very engaged with the Schools stuff we…
Had a nice chat with Betty (Shell Network Professor at Twente) about interesting things for Shell. She menioned a range of groups in Shell that could use some KMi stuff. She came to look at Hex, but I also showed buddyspace and rostra – which she was very interested in; and talked about compendium and…
Interesting chat with Michel Mulquin, IS Communications (01353 722149) who is bidding with Crest Nicolson to put together the Milton Keynes Millennium Village. These are a series of new developments focusing on the future of UK new communities. Greenwich is the first of these, I think. Anyway, these guys are bidding to English Partnerships for…
We had a first visit from Neil Suffield of the Environment Agency. The reason for the visit was to look at possibilities for “horizon scanning” which he talked over with Enrico. However, you will see from the following that there may be a lot of potential here. Please keep Enrico, Peter and me in the…
KMi continues to roll in the external funding and maintain its high hit rate on European projects. Over the past two months KMi has launched four new EU-funded projects worth over £1M to KMi, and representing European initiatives with a combined total value of more than £15M. The projects are a mixture of Integrated Projects…
Currently the only external (outside the OU) use of ROSTRA, UK ice hockey eZine The Puck Stops Here has reached a milestone of one hundred thousand story hits. Edited by KMi's Chris Valentine, the website has been running since mid-July 2003. TPSH was launched as a replacement to an earlier, hand-crafted eZine called Benchwarmer but…
An update on the Eolas/Microsoft patent situation that could require significant changes to the way plugins are used in web pages. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated a claim to Web browser technology central to a case against Microsoft, a move that could spare the software giant from paying more than half a…
Three visitors from Common Purpose came to KMi on 8th March to get a 'glimpse of the future.' Common Purpose states it vision as follows: “For a democracy to be strong, it needs an active civil society, in which citizens are both informed and connected. Common Purpose's vision is that we can improve the way…
