KMi has begun its research activity on ClimatePrediction.Net, a massive distributed computing project designed to allow up to 2 million individuals each to run part of a 100-year-projection climate model on their personal computers. ClimatePredicton.Net, headed by a team from the Atmospheric Physics Department at the University of Oxford, has been awarded £400K by the…
UPDATE: Lorenzo and Scott reached the summit around 09:30 BST, 10:30 local time, and sent their final audio message before the descent. Several people tuned in to the webcast from around the world including one from Florida.Unfortunately, due to a problem dialling into the Internet account, Lorenzo was unable to send any photos using the…
First-year KMi postgraduate student Yanna Vogiazou has won a top prize for ‘excellence in combining theory and application’ at the Designing Interactive Systems 2002 conference sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). The conference, co-sponsored by Sun, IBM, Microsoft, and the British HCI group, was held in…
Peter Lampl, Chairman and Founder of The Sutton Trust, visited KMi this morning as part of a wider Open University visit. The Sutton Trust provides educational opportunities for able young people from non-privileged backgrounds. Peter Lampl’s visit began with a meeting with KMi Chief Scientist Marc Eisenstadt and Business Manager Peter Sharpe. A discussion of…
Dr. Mike Rodd, Director of Knowledge Services Department of the Institution of Electrical Engineer’s, visited KMi today as part of an OU-wide series of discussions arranged by Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh, Research Director of the OU’s Computing Department. Prof. Nuseibeh and Dr. Rodd are initiating discussions on possible collaborative links between the IEE and the OU….
KMi researchers have been awarded grants on EPSRC and EU-funded projects worth a combined total of over £1M pounds in a series of new initiatives that will bring KMi into the arenas of interactive digital TV games, cultural heritage, and collaborative tools based on advanced knowledge technologies and presence awareness. The image accompanying this story…
Professor Brenda Gourley, in post since January 2002 as the Open University’s fourth Vice-Chancellor, visited KMi today to meet staff as part of her ‘get acquainted’ series of visits to OU units. After a brief introductory chat with KMi Director Dr. Enrico Motta, Professor Gourley was then introduced to research teams around KMi. Research team…
KMi’s ‘BuddySpace’ experimental prototype for messaging, gaming, and group collaboration has now moved from an unofficial ‘skunkworks’ project to something that has caught the attention of Open University course teams, UK funding agencies, and international industry leaders in presence and messaging. BuddySpace began as a summer intern project, looking at ways of using maps and…
KMi is playing a key role in the formative stages of the Learning Federation, a proposed government/industry/academic coalition meeting in Washington DC on November 28th and 29th. The two-day brainstorm brings together high-profile representatives from industry, academia, and particularly the Cognitive and Learning Sciences Community, including Hal Abelson, John Anderson, John Seely Brown, Don Norman,…
Christine Large, Director of the Bletchley Park Trust, visited KMi on Thursday, 2nd November 2000. The visit, set up by Jez Grzeda, Director of OU Intellectual Property Mangement, was aimed at establishing links between the new ‘Community-oriented’ Bletchley Park Trust activities and the ongoing research projects within KMi. Bletchley Park is the home of the…
