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Adobe’s Senior Scientist visits KMi
Bill McDaniel, a Senior Scientist at Adobe Systems, authors of Photoshop, Acrobat and the like, visited KMi to present a talk on the many of the...
KMi at OU Open Day 2005
KMi presented many of their internet-based research projects at the Open University's open day this year. This was the first open day in three...
Singing benches let loose in city
Looks like some technology from The HitchHikers' Guide is becoming a reality: "Robotic bins that move and chuckle, benches that flock together...
Lorenzo’s Blog becomes BBC Suffolk Website of the Day
Posted by someone on the 7summits forum on 22nd April - but in a different section, so I've only just seen this: The Wider World Wide...
climateprediction.net Touted by SETI Site
The home page on the SETI@home project, probably the most well-known distributed computing project on the planet, is currently featuring...
Dave Bradbury Leaves
Popular researcher Dave Bradbury today leaves KMi, his seventh position at the Open University, for a job in Oxford. "I always get drink" quips...
GEOCaching
GPS has been crying out for decent recreational uses since its invention - now its here (or should that be 'everywhere'?). "A GPS device and...
First PDA Virus Emerges
The first virus designed specifically to attack machines running the version of Windows for Pocket PCs has been reported. Called 'Duts',...
Tim Berners-Lee received Knighthood
Credited by many as "the father of the web" Tim Berners-Lee today received a Knighthood from the Queen. He crafted the original hypertext language to...
AVI Video to Flash tool
Macromedia have a new tool for converting video files (amongst other things) to Flash video: "...optimized for converting raster and vector...
Microsoft to launch hi-tech Webcam
i2i, in development at Microsoft Research labs, Cambridge UK, is a two-camera system which follows a person's movement. It uses...
First Private Space Mission Makes History
SpaceShipOne, the first private manned spacecraft, made a flawless takeoff over the Mojave Desert this morning on its way into the history books. The...