Professor John Domingue who originally came to the OU to do his PhD, entered KMi when it was formed in �95. Now, as one of the leading academics in the world of the Semantic Web, Professor Domingue has been awarded this prestigious title after years of dedicated work in his field resulting in highly acclaimed…
Dr John Domingue, deputy director of KMi and a leading member of the Semantic Web Community was recently interviewed by SemanticWeb.com . The interview deals with the specific KMi project as well as discussing the need for applying Semantic Web Services to the Web. Dr Domingue is leading KMi’s work in the field of Semantic…
KMi were happy to show support for this important opposition by appearing as part of the Channel 4 news story on the ELQ proposals. In brief, the govt. wants to remove all funding for students studying for a degree at the same level as one they already hold. For the OU this represents a significant…
Marc Eisenstadt co-founded KMi in 1995 and has pretty much dedicated his life to the lab ever since. The vision for the Open University to host a purely research based lab was revolutionary. The result was a small bunch of crazy academics in a hut trying to figure out how cool science could be woven…
Proteach Italia is the collaborative research project that was launched on 1st November by the Open University’s KMi and the University of Padova. The project aims to explore the use of new video conferencing innovations to enhance the learning experience of professional groups. Specifically, the project will evaluate the use of FlashMeeting and Compendium in…
As part of KMi’s continuing commitment to Moodle development and support of the Open University’s VLE Ale Okada presented the KMi technologies of Compendium, MSG and FlashMeeting at the prestigious MoodleMoot Brazil 2007, using a live FlashMeeting. MoodleMoot Brazil is the largest gathering of Moodle developers in South America. Ale, sitting at her KMi desk…
In order to showcase collaborative project work for the OU Council “student support” residential weekend, KMi and Earth Sciences joined forces today to give a live demo to the council of how digital technology has been used to solve the problem of Enabling Remote Access. The project was born out of the need of Earth…
As part of a European university tour, Mme Liu Ying, Director of Distance Education and Continuing Education at the Chinese Ministry of Education once again requested to spend some time in KMi. After her last visit here in 2006 she was keen to see what project developments had taken place and to introduce a number…
Dr Dawei Song and Prof. Stefan Rueger have been awarded a significant grant from the EPSRC, placing KMi as the lead university in a three year, £1m research project that aims to change the paradigm of information retrieval on the web. Their bid, ranked second out of 60 fundable proposals at the recent ICT Prioritisation…
The OU delivery of training and learning to Reuters via the Moodle platform was given a boost in April by KMi. Incorporating FlashVlogs into web pages is something KMi has been doing for ages and it was the obvious solution for the Corous team who manage the Reuters Account. Sarah Walshe of Corous had asked…
