Last week saw SOA4All’s second year review in Barcelona. Driven by the success of previous reviews, this time the evaluation focused on exploitation of project results which shows the high expectations the European Commission has of this project. As on previous occasions, KMi’s involvement was crucial for yet another successful review. KMi’s John Domingue and…
NoTube – this is future television. This claim was once again underlined by the very successful 1st year project review of NoTube, which took place last week at the VU Intertain Lab in Amsterdam, which proved to be a more than worthy venue for NoTube. NoTube did set off to create a new, user-driven television…
Yesterday saw the end to the highly stimulating day and a half International Research Forum (IRF) hosted by SAP at the Lindner Hotel & Sporting Club Wiesensee. The annual invitation-only forum brings together the leading thinkers from academia and industry around a preselected topic and the theme of this year’s event was "Future Internet: Right…
This week saw over 2500 participants attend a large EU meeting: "From Economic Recovery to Sustainability". This large meeting combined large public-private partnerships in the areas of: Factories of the Future, Energy Efficient Buildings, Green Cars and the Future Internet. Each of these areas is associated with a significant pool of funding and at the…
Yesterday was the first day of an EU Commission lead Consumer Summit which incorporated extensive content on Web 3.0. The overall focus of the Summit, opened by Mr. John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumers, was on services for consumers and in particular on access, fairness and choice. Specifically, the Summit aimed to develop…
The beginning of this week saw over 350 Future Internet stakeholders from academia, government and industry meet with the Kista Science City in Stockholm. This meeting, part of the series of six-monthly Future Internet Assemblies, enables the leaders of over a hundred EU projects representing a budget approaching 500M Euros to collaborate on key issues…
So began the feedback from the mid-term review of the SOA4All project, held last week in Brussels. From a relatively slow start the three external reviewers of the project now agreed that the project is performing very well. As one review said: �it is now fun to be a reviewer�. SOA4All is a large EU…
This week saw a highly stimulating workshop on how Semantic Technologies could support the Future Internet held in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium in Berlin. The workshop combined a number of leading players from the semantics arena and from the main areas of the Future Internet, namely from the: Internet of Services, Internet of…
The last week of June saw the Dagstuhl �Semantic Web Reflections and Future Directions� Perspectives Workshop take place in the well-known centre for informatics meetings. The seminar was organised by KMi’s John Domingue together with Dieter Fensel (Universit�t Innsbruck), James A. Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic, USA) and Rudi Studer (Universit�t Karlsruhe), and involved 50 of the…
More than ever the Global Economy and Society depends on the Internet – all major sectors of industry, from transport and banking to entertainment and education are moving online. With today�s 1 billion Internet users soon to be joined by 3 billion mobile online devices Internet usage will need to become fully pervasive, incorporating a…
