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‘KMi Focus’ Feature

‘Open House’, the Open University’s award-winning monthly staff newspaper, features a four-page colour supplement entitled ‘KMi Focus’ in the May 1999 issue. This Planet story serves to provide links to followup details for Open House readers. The May 1999 supplement was suggested by Open House editor Malcolm Lane as a way of following through on…

Historic Movie On Display At Last!

NEWS FLASH (April 1st, 1998) – Historic Movie On Display At Last! Cinefilm of one of the defining events of the 20th century has at last been restored, 94 years after it was taken. Everyone must have seen the classic image of Orville Wright’s first flight, but what they will not have realised is that…

Zdenek’s Truck hits the streets

Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal, Senior Research Fellow in KMi, has helped design this truck recently exhibited at the IAA Hannover show. The truck cabin was designed by DccS Engineering, Prague for Skoda Liaz Comp. The design is a spin-off from the Encode project funded by the European Union under the Copernicus programme (420 kECU – Copernicus…

Zdenek’s Truck hits the streets

Dr. Zdenek Zdrahal, Senior Research Fellow in KMi, has helped design this truck recently exhibited at the IAA Hannover show. The truck cabin was designed by DccS Engineering, Prague for Skoda Liaz Comp. The design is a spin-off from the Encode project funded by the European Union under the Copernicus programme (420 kECU – Copernicus…