KMis North Wing stands ready in preparation for redecoration, the installation of a partition around the podium presentation area, and the installation of new furniture in the central area. Work is expected to take around four weeks. The demonstration area has now found a new permanent home in the South Wing.
BuddySpace2, a cross-platform Java implementation of a new kind of instant messaging program, became available for public download today. BuddySpace is an instant messaging program with a difference: it enables users to visualise the online/offline status of colleagues and friends using customised maps, logical layouts such as building schematics and even project and course-schedule timelines….
KMi is hosting a two day integration workshop aimed at creating next-generation collaboration tools. The workshop, on 10th and 11th October, 2002, brings together KMi’s team with partners at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton, all engaged in “Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid” (CoAKTinG), an EPSRC project funded as part of the UK’s…
On 26th September 2002 a team from Oulu University, Finland, visited KMi. The City of Oulu is the cultural, commercial and administrative centre for the whole of central and northern Finland region, which has a population of over 120,000 people. Oulu is a university, science and technology city. The sphere of influence of the university…
The Open University’s Mind Body Spirit Club has recently become the most unusual adopter of KMi news system ‘ROSTRA’. A planet has been set up for the club to announce visits, talks and social events. Club webmaster Doug Blane was introduced to ROSTA via the OU Business School who have recently had their previous generation…
The second issue of KMi’s irregular news magazine Focus was unveiled today by department Director Enrico Motta and the publication’s editor Jane Whild. To be included with Open House, all members of Open University staff will receive a copy. Related Links: Focus webpage
Marc Eisenstadt appeared live on Newsnight on Wednesday the 10th of July. His invitation followed a letter to the Guardian on the sacking of two Israeli academics from the editorial board of a Journal and the boycott of Israeli academia led by Steven Rose. Steven Rose was unable to make the programme but appeared in…
Marc Eisenstadt appeared live on Newsnight on Wednesday the 10th of July. His invitation followed a letter to the Guardian on the sacking of two Israeli academics from the editorial board of a Journal and the boycott of Israeli academia led by Steven Rose. Steven Rose was unable to make the programme but appeared in…
First-year KMi postgraduate student Yanna Vogiazou has won a top prize for ‘excellence in combining theory and application’ at the Designing Interactive Systems 2002 conference sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). The conference, co-sponsored by Sun, IBM, Microsoft, and the British HCI group, was held in…
Both KMi’s directors were among many watching the thrilling semifinal between Brazil and Turkey today. Related Links: BBC World Cup website
