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KMi’s Blockchain Group visits JISC

01 Nov 2016

All members of KMi’s blockchain group visited Jisc’s London offices yesterday for a workshop on the use of blockchain technology in higher education, specifically in tracking a student’s learning history.…

A successful first year review for EDSA!

20 Oct 2016

EDSA had a very successful first review last week in Luxembourg. Professor John Domingue and Keyur Dave represented the KMi team at the review and were also responsible for the…

Augmented Reality Presented at Show and TEL

20 Oct 2016

Today KMi’s Paul Hogan gave a presentation on the augmented reality application he is developing for the October 2017 presentation of SK299 Human Biology. The app uses augmented reality to…

Yinchuan, Smart city, Wonderful Life

12 Oct 2016

Yinchuan is one of the world’s leading smart cities. This growing, modern city has much in common with Milton Keynes. Host to the TMForumInFocus international conference with over 1000 delegates…

Blockchains: visions from Shanghai

03 Oct 2016

The recently held International Blockchain week in Shanghai was jointly hosted by the Ethereum Foundation and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs. The event consisted of a unique three-segment format. The first three days…

KMi Showcased at the OU’s STEM Faculty Official Launch

29 Sep 2016

Yesterday saw the official launch of the OU’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Faculty which KMi joined from 1 August. KMi had a stand at the showcase as part…

The Rise of Data Science – 6th ESWC Summer School held last week in Dubrovnik

15 Sep 2016

The ESWC Summer School, this year moved venues and was held for the first time in beautiful Dubrovnik, Croatia last week (between 5-10th September). The year the students enjoyed the…

Book reaches top charts: Responsive Open Learning Environments

25 Jul 2016

A book co-edited by Alexander Mikroyannidis has reached the top Springer download charts. Since its online publication on November 2014, there has been a total of 28,033 chapter downloads of…

Dr Hassan Saif Receives the 2016 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award

19 Jul 2016

Dr Hassan Saif has recently received the 2016 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award for his Thesis: “Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Microblogs”. The award will be presented during the International Semantic Web…

Human Biology Sample Augmented Reality App Released

18 Jul 2016

Paul Hogan in KMI is developing an augmented reality app for colleagues in the STEM faculty that explores the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) to support students studying human biology.…

KMi Researchers Win the Best Poster Award at JCDL 2016

11 Jul 2016

Drahomira Herrmannova and Petr Knoth have won the Best Poster Award at JCDL 2016 in Newark, USA with their contribution “Semantometrics: Towards fulltext-based research evaluation.” This was a very good…

CORE wins Best Poster Award at the Open Repositories Conference #OR2016

23 Jun 2016

Last week, the CORE team attended the 11th Annual Conference on Open Repositories, an international conference addressed mainly to subject and institutional repository managers, focusing on open access, open data…