We’re pleased to announce that the MK Data Hub has received two prestigious awards in an event run by a global leader in Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The MK Data Hub received awards for "Best virtualisation and disaster recovery project" and the top prize of "Best at show" at the VMworld Europe User Awards 2015. The event held…
Greg Clark was appointed Minister of State (Cities and Constitution) in October 2013. As part of a visit to The Open University he spent some time with MK:Smart Project Director, Professor Enrico Motta who, supported by Milton Keynes Council Director of Strategy, Geoff Snelson and University of Bedfordshire’s Emeritus Professor, David Barrett, was delighted to…
Following a kind invitation from Prof Bjørnar Tessem and Prof Csaba Veres, I spent three excellent days at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies of the University of Bergen in Norway. During my time in Bergen I gave two lectures. The first one focused on my work on the Rexplore tool for exploring…
Every two years, the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine runs the “AI’s 10 to Watch” award, which aims to identify 10 of the most promising early career researchers in Artificial Intelligence. As Prof Fei-Yue Wang, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems, says in his editorial, the winners list provides a “glimpse of the future of AI” and…
Former KMi PhD student Tom Heath has been awarded the prestigious "PhD of the Year" prize, which is assigned every year to the most promising researcher in the STi International academic network. Tom was given the prize at a ceremony held during the organisation’s recent offsite meeting in Kalamaki, Crete. KMi’s John Domingue, President of…
Ainhoa Llorente, one of KMis PhD students, has been awarded funding for 12 months from Abbey, one of the largest UK banks and part of the Banco Santander group, to continue her research on automated image annotation. Her doctoral work, which is supervised by Profs Stefan Rueger and Enrico Motta, aims to improve the quality…
Today KMi-ers celebrated the last day at work of Marta Sabou, before she goes off on maternity leave. She was "ambushed" by a suprise celebration, during which she was presented with gifts for her and the baby. To Marta go the warmest wishes from all the members of KMi. All the very best!!!
Last week a plenary meeting of the X-media consortium was held in Orbassano, near Turin, at Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF). X-Media is a 13M Euros EC-sponsored Integrated Project, which focuses on developing methods and tools for effectively acquiring, integrating, and managing information extracted from different media. KMi plays a key role in the project, contributing…
Professor Enrico Motta and Dr John Domingue of the Knowledge Media Institute have received a set of record-breaking awards totaling �4m from the European Commission’s Framework 6 Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. This is the largest ever combined award obtained by KMi associated with a single funding programme. The awards include three Integrated Projects (IPs)…
Marta Sabou, who joined KMi last November, has been chosen as one of the top ten young AI researchers in the world, to be included in a “AI Ten to Watch” article, which will be featured in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems, one of the top magazines in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The publication…
