Last week saw the midterm review for the EPSRC funded Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project at the University of Southampton. Overall the review went extremely well. In his summing up the review, panel chair Professor James Hendler said “if I could give you a grade it would be an “A” and pointed out that many…
The First European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2003) took place on 21-26 July in Cercedilla (Spain). The event was the first opportunity anywhere in the world for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the range of theoretical and practical skills necessary for full engagement with the challenges involved in developing…
Last week saw presentations from KMi projects dominate EKAW the premier European conference on the semantic web. One indicator of the lab’s impact can be derived from the number of accepted papers. Over a hundred papers from 20 countries were submitted to the conference. Of the 20 full papers accepted 6 were related either to…
Marc Eisenstadt appeared live on Newsnight on Wednesday the 10th of July. His invitation followed a letter to the Guardian on the sacking of two Israeli academics from the editorial board of a Journal and the boycott of Israeli academia led by Steven Rose. Steven Rose was unable to make the programme but appeared in…
Marc Eisenstadt appeared live on Newsnight on Wednesday the 10th of July. His invitation followed a letter to the Guardian on the sacking of two Israeli academics from the editorial board of a Journal and the boycott of Israeli academia led by Steven Rose. Steven Rose was unable to make the programme but appeared in…
Gale Moore and Andrew Clement from the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto came to visit KMi today. Gale and Andrew were visiting us as part of a European fact finding mission in the context of their research project "Institutionalising Interdisciplinary Innovation in Universities: The Emergent Field of Knowledge Media Design."
Over the last three days members of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) consortium attended a workshop in KMi to construct ‘AKT-0’. AKT-0 is a preliminary experiment to explore what types of web based knowledge services can be offered by integrating existing tools within the consortium. KMi Planet and KMi’s library of associated knowledge models provided…
Today, Theresa May MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment for the Conservative Party visited KMi. Mrs. May was welcomed to the University by Sir John Daniel, The Vice Chancellor.. After fruitful discussion with members of the University’s Senior Team, Mrs. May moved to a presentation by the Faculty of Education and Language…
Today saw the launch of Alice – a joint E-Commerce venture between KMi and the Icelandic Internet company INNN. The goal of this project is to make internet shopping a personalised experience – like visiting a traditional local corner store where customer specific recommendations and advice are given. Building on existing KMi knowledge and web…
Three KMi related stories appeared today in the Open Eye supplement of the Independent newspaper. The first story described how the new £7million AKT project would allow organisations to share knowledge effectively amongst collaborating workers. This project will use a number of KMi knowledge and web technologies which have been developed in previous EU funded…
