Lyceum, the Open University's virtual classroom tool originated in KMi, is alive, kicking, serving thousands of students, and delivering high-quality end-user experiences. I'm taking my first ever OU course – LZX194: Portales (Beginner's Spanish), and using Lyceum as a student, partaking in its capabilities for multiparty audio conferencing with shared graphics. You see the world…
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…
Marc is meeting with Coral Stanion-Nazeri, Head of Design, OU Learning and Teaching Solutions, who writes “I am interested in this project in two ways: firstly with the possibilities that using Buddy Space may offer our department which is moving into newly located project teams as a mechanism for keeping contact and community amongst a…
Yanna and Marc went to join an invited brainstorm about multiplayer gaming within the context of the Mobile Bristol project. Phil Stenton and his team there are very happy to provide an experimental environment within which Yanna and Bas Raijmakers (now doing a PhD at the Royal College of Art) can design and test next…
Having run tools like 'AltaVista Personal' and 'Enfish' over the years, and always having wondered 'why can I search a large chunk of the web faster than I can search my own machine', I've finally discovered one (at www.x1.com) that 'does the right thing': it's not merely that it indexes everything, but more that it…
John and Marc attended the ClimatePrediction.net launch at the Science Museum, itself the subject of a KMi Planet Story and huge international press coverage. 20,000 client registrations the first day! Related Links: ClimatePrediction.net
John and Marc attended the ClimatePrediction.net launch at the Science Museum, itself the subject of a KMi Planet Story and huge international press coverage. 20,000 client registrations the first day! Related Links: ClimatePrediction.net
The Science Museum in London is the scene for today's launch of ClimatePrediction.net, the world's largest climate prediction experiment . The experiment, using thousands of personal computers to run different facets of a highly complex simulation, has been developed by a large team including the Oxford University Department of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Reading,…
From the Skype site (URL below): “Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users — not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends.” Well, according to the 'holy grail' feature set…
Yanna has been invited to HPLabs Bristol, at their NESTA FutureLab outpost, to present some ideas on live multiplayer gaming that could be deployed on next-generation wireless networks and devices. Her co-presenter is Bas Raijmakers, of the Interaction Design Lab at the Royal College of Art
