KMi's showcase appears this week on the cover of Science, the high-circulation magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The cover story, about distributed computing, features the ClimatePredication.net project, in which KMi and the OU Department of Earth Science were partners with Oxford University and others listed at the link below. The…
Following on the heels of the Xtreme Webcasting events featuring Lorenzo Gariano's ascents of The Matterhorn and Everest-next-door-neighbor Lhotse, here comes Xtreme Podcasting from Mount Everest. As the site (complete with RSS/Podcast feed of Lorenzo's audio reports) indicates: “Adventurer Lorenzo Gariano is part of a ten-man collaborative expedition between 7summits.com and the 7summits club from…
Sir Alan Wilson, Director-General for Higher Education at the Department for Education and Skills, had a first-hand look at new learning technologies today in KMi. Sir Alan is a key advisor to the Secretary of State for Education and plays a critical part in the governments drive to widen participation and maintain a world-class university…
Today marks the kickoff of a two-day meeting of key partners in the ELeGI Consortium – the 23-member £5M “European Learning Grid Infrastructure” Project. The meeting will bring together the ELeGI Scientific and Technical Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Work Package and Action Line leaders in order to assess the current state of the project, and plan…
Last week saw the DIP Executive Management Board confirm KMi’s Deputy Director, John Domingue, as the project’s Scientific Director. In this role as head of the project he will be supported by the project’s previous head Christoph Bussler and the project manager Sigurd Harand, both from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, Ireland. DIP…
KMis FlashMeeting, BuddySpace, Compendium, Magpie, and Stadium received an enthusiastic response at the 12th July gathering of the London Symposium on Social Tools for the Enterprise. The event featured a focused series of discussions led by practitioners in the blogging, social networking, and social tools community addressing the impact of such tools in the corporate…
KMis FlashMeeting, BuddySpace, Compendium, Magpie, and Stadium received an enthusiastic response at the 12th July gathering of the London Symposium on Social Tools for the Enterprise. The event featured a focused series of discussions led by practitioners in the blogging, social networking, and social tools community addressing the impact of such tools in the corporate…
CitiTag, the wireless multiplayer game designed and developed jointly between KMi, HPLabs Bristol, and the Royal College of Art, was rolled out to the streets of Bristol today, garnering an enthusiastic reception among the players. The premise of CitiTag is that a game of ultimate simplicity (tag), can be enhanced by empowering players with 'augmented…
SUMMARY: Roger Fennemore or colleague can spend 1-day-per-week assisting 'KMi.com' operations… IPMO to underwrite first 6mos. consultancy. It took 2 months to have the 5 min. conversation with Alan Bassindale. [sorry, must be read from bottom to top to appreciate] —–Original Message—– From: M.Eisenstadt Sent: 23 March 2004 14:26 To: Kmi-Management-Board-List Subject: Fennemore deal update……
Three visitors from Common Purpose came to KMi on 8th March to get a 'glimpse of the future.' Common Purpose states it vision as follows: “For a democracy to be strong, it needs an active civil society, in which citizens are both informed and connected. Common Purpose's vision is that we can improve the way…
