While Instant messaging is gaining popularity with workers trying to get around the restrictions placed on what they can do with e-mail, few firms subject instant messaging programs to the same scrutiny that e-mail receives to stop spam, viruses or abuse by employees. A survey by filtering firm Surf Control Survey shows that almost 40%…
Mike Uschold (Boeing) (21-nov) John Fox (cancer research UK) (7-oct) Simone Groothuis (Academic Press) Mansur Darlington (engineering dept. @ bath university) Maarten Sierhuis (nasa) E2B – 10/10/03 Shell – 13/10/03 Nature – twice BBC Digilab – 4/08/03 Danish Association for Flexible Learning (big visit) – 11/09/03 SoftCapital Ltd – 23/12/03 Sport4All with David Bellin and…
Manuel Lama has joined us until mid-February. Manuel is from the University of Santiago in Spain where he lectures in computer science.
Manuel Lama has joined us until mid-February. Manuel is from the University of Santiago in Spain where he lectures in computer science.
December 17th was the centenary of the pioneering flight made by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk and the firstflight web site received more than 11,000 visitors. The firstflight web site was developed in the early days of KMi as a test-bed for web based virtual science projects. One simulation was of the Wright Brothers'…
Softcapital are a small company working on the National Measurement System Knowledge Transfer Programme. The NMS involves the major labs working on metrology in this country, e.g. National Physical Laboratory. The KT programme aims to work out how to feed information on practice out into the business community. This type of initiative is apparently being…
If you doubt the power of history, take a look at the number of hits on the First Flight web site on December 17th. 80,861 hits from 10,714 visitors. The site usually has between 200 and 2,000 visitors per day except that on the 17th the number of visitors really climbed and was still over…
Dominic was present to welcome the guests, but left when we were all there. John and I were accompanied by Rae and Fiona and worked the room quite well. Brenda's partner James is an architect, but with a keen interest in technology. Brenda herself was most engaged when talking about the work of Bob Moon…
Haibo Jai is working with us for a few weeks producing models of Bob Horn's “Big Debate” in AI using the new ClaiMapper tool. Robert E. Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in policy communication, social learning, and knowledge management (especially in biotechnology and national security affairs). For the past 7 years,…
KMi postgraduate student Clara Mancini successfully defended her doctoral dissertation during a thesis viva today. She has been recommended for the award of a Ph.D. after minor revisions. Clara's thesis, entitled 'Towards Cinematic Hypertext', breaks new ground in probing the very nature of coherence in hypertext, using the notion of 'cognitive coherence relations', and look…
