Princeton, NJ and Milton Keynes, UK — November 12, 1997 – Voxware, Inc. (Nasdaq: VOXW) and the Open University today announced their agreement to license Voxware speech and audio compression technology for use in developing environments for the Open University’s large-scale, interactive educational events over the Internet. Voxware, Inc. is a premier developer of speech…
David Brown, the Chairman of the University for Industry Design and Implementation Advisory Group and Chairman of Motorola, visited the OU as part of a fact finding exercise, prior to drafting his initial 100 Days Report to HM Government. David was accompanied by Jeannette Pugh, Josh Hillman and Nick Pearce. The DfEE has stated that…
A live Webcast from KMi on Thursday 4th September linked some two dozen University Pro-Vice-Chancellors charged with steering policy on the use of new technologies in education. The event was the first of three phases of the ongoing ‘Learning.Org’ conference, created by Professor Diana Laurillard, The Open University’s PVC (Technology Development). Learning.Org is designed as…
KMi’s experimental “Digital Document Discourse Environment” (D3E) is now being used by the OU’s Office of Technology Development to foster University-wide discussion about the Course Appraisal Model. D3E is a web-based discussion/debate enviroment in which the documents being discussed are embedded in the same environment as the discussion, to ensure a tight coupling between the…
Sun Microsystems is hosting an internal KMi Stadium Webcast on March 12th 1997, featuring Adrian Cockroft. Dr. Cockroft will be speaking on the subject of Java sizing and web performance monitoring, and the event will be made available at multiple sites across the UK SWAN (Sun Wide Area Network). This event complements Sun’s ‘tech talk’…
Andersen Consulting Inc., one of the world’s foremost IT consulting and accountancy firms, today joined a prestigious list of partners working with KMi Stadium. The others already on board include Sun Microsystems and IBM Global Education and Training.
