KMi today gathered to celebrate a “significant” birthday for long-term secretary Ortenz Rose. Ortenz has served at the OU since before KMi was formed in 1995 and joined the institute together with KMi co-founder Marc Eisenstadt. Ortenz started her celebrations earlier this year with a South Caribbean cruise, but confesses that she had spent the…
The webCEF project has received an overall ‘excellent’ rating from the EU in its final report. The assessor stated that webCEF showed “high quality of project outcomes and products; good functioning of the consortium and efficient project management [with a] large dissemination of results and a user-friendly website”. webCEF provided a web-based assessment tool that…
Ben Hawkridge and Chris Valentine have run a successful workshop to introduce all five members of the University’s Equality and Diversity team to the technicalities of recording material for podcasting or for presentation on the OU’s new YouTube channel. They will be using their new knowledge to record video and audio media to promote the…
An Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) presentation at mLearn 2008 has lead to JANET to issue a call to develop extreme portable WLAN projects. The presentation at mLearn impressed Mark O’Leary of JANET enough for him to set up a call for projects to investigate ‘networking at the edge’. ERA, along with four other academic teams…
On Friday 2nd January 2009, Italian climber Lorenzo Gariano complete a 12-year quest to complete the Seven Summits challenge – that is to climb the highest mountain on each of the world’s continents – with a successful first-attempt climb of Vinson Massif on Antarctica. He becomes only the third Italian in history to have completed…
Long-term friend of KMi, Lorenzo Gariano, has finally completed a 12-year quest to complete the "Seven Summits" challenge – that is to climb the highest mountain on each continent – with a successful first-attempt climb of Vinson Massif on Antarctica. He becomes only the third Italian in history to have completed the Seven Summits, after…
Today, KMi celebrated Davide Guidi’s completion of the first half of his PhD with us; he will now continue his studies at Imperial College, London. Davide works in the Open Knowledge project, in the design and implementation of PowerMagpie which is a Web browser extension to handle Semantic content. He is also in the Watson…
KMi today celebrated the upcoming wedding of long-time KMi researcher Martin Dzbor, who is to marry girlfriend Zuzana in Trebiov, Slovakia in a couple of days time. Professor Motta presented a unique gift voucher and card signed by many members of the department. Martin works as research scientist and technical manager on the massive 4-year…
Professor Stefan Rueger today presented his inaugural lecture, titled ‘More Than a Thousand Words’. The title alludes to his area of expertise – research into practical and efficient search methods for Multimedia Information Retrieval, ie, video search engines, image databases, spoken document retrieval, music retrieval, query languages and query mediation. Prof Rueger joined KMi from…
As part of their commitment to the webCEF project, Dr Peter Scott, Dr Kevin Quick and Chris Valentine attended a meeting at Universite de Savoie in Chambéry, France. Kevin and Chris have developed a web-based assessment tool that language learners and teachers can use to assess submitted media samples against the Common European Framework of…
