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Skype – P2P Voice over IP from the KaZaA team

From the Skype site (URL below): “Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users — not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends.” Well, according to the &#39holy grail&#39 feature set…

Virtual Coffee Room Now Open!

So … back in August we suggested you try out our new experimental office. Which we have called Hex (for obvious reasons). Now, the KMi virtual office has a voice enabled virtual coffee room. You go to coffee by dragging your hex into the room. It drops where you place it in that space, and…

Chat with Guardian Education

Had a short interview with Jack Schofield just now (Technology Ed. Guardian). He is doing an Education piece on higher education 2033. I said I wouldnt speculate that far ahead – 5 years max. for the sensible window! However, I chatted about some of the interesting things we are doing – esp the emphasis on…

Sereno Speaks at Hypertext 03

Bertrand Sereno, with Simon Buckingham Shum and Enrico Motta, gave a paper entitled : Towards a Semantic Hypertext Tool to Support Scholarly Reading and Annotation at the 1st International Workshop on Scholarly Hypertext at Hypertext 03 in Nottingham today Related Links: Hypertext 03

3 Papers at DEXA 2003

Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications – DEXA 2003 A toolkit and methodology to support the collaborative development and reuse of engineering models Zdenek Zdrahal, Paul Mulholland, Michael Valasek, Phil Sainter, Matt Koss, Lukas Trejtnar Paul Mulholland, Zdenek Zdrahal, Trevor Collins and David Bradbury also had papers in…

3 Papers at DEXA 2003

Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications – DEXA 2003 A toolkit and methodology to support the collaborative development and reuse of engineering models Zdenek Zdrahal, Paul Mulholland, Michael Valasek, Phil Sainter, Matt Koss, Lukas Trejtnar Paul Mulholland, Zdenek Zdrahal, Trevor Collins and David Bradbury also had papers in…

Mary Taylor relocates to Crowther

One of the founder members of KMi, senior project officer Mary Taylor today leaves KMi to re-join fellow accessibilities staff under the Centre for Assistive Technology and Enabling Research (CATER) initiative, part of IET in Crowther. Mary will continue her work on the conversion of course material currently issued on tape cassette to an entirely…

Meeting to discuss KMi semantic portal

Enrico, John, Peter, Jon and Chris in the Masterclass area. We will be looking at RDF semantic feed from KMi databased and their integration with a new client (probably Flash). Adding services like *make a flash-meeting* seem pretty neat ideas.

Paper Accepted – K-CAP 03 in October

Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Enrico Motta, Zdenek Zdrahal, and Rajkumar Roy (2003). A Generic Library of Problem Solving Methods for Scheduling Applications. To appear in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP༿), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. Oct. 23-25, 2003. Related Links: K-CAP 03