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Lorenzo Flies Into Unrest
Adventurer and long-time friend of KMi Lorezno Gariano this week set off on his second attempt to summit Everest and at the same time has flown into...

PCMCIA on the way out
Dell and Apple are phasing out PCMCIA card slots (sometimes called PC cards, or cardbus cards) in favour a new format that is not...

Comp Ling UK 06 @ KMi
KMi is hosting the 9th Computational Linguistics UK Research Colloquium (CLUK 06). It is being attended by 40 delegates: Research Students from UK...
KMi awarded 4M for Semantic Web Research
Professor Enrico Motta and Dr John Domingue of the Knowledge Media Institute have received a set of record-breaking awards totaling �4m from the...

Pigeon-powered Air Monitoring Takes Off
A flock of pigeons fitted with mobile phone backpacks is to be used to monitor air pollution, New Scientist magazine reported on Wednesday. The 20...

Marta is one of "AI Ten to Watch"
Marta Sabou, who joined KMi last November, has been chosen as one of the top ten young AI researchers in the world, to be included in a "AI Ten to...

Kids Making The News with Competition Awards
Today saw the presentation of awards for the first Making The News competition at London's Olympia. The awards were presented by Robin Cousins...

Hurricane victims turn to the net
Nearly half of those affected in America's gulf coast region by last year's devastating hurricane "Katrina" turned to the Internet to make...

Hurricane victims turn to the net
Nearly half of those affected in America's gulf coast region by last year's devastating hurricane "Katrina" turned to the Internet to...

Active RFID more practical?
The development of a new thin and flexible battery by NEC, based on an organic gel like compound, has great potential for making active RFID tags...

BuddySpace 2.6 Bonanza
KMi's "Instant Messenger with maps and attitude", BuddySpace, was made available in version 2.6 today. The latest version, which includes Chris...

$100 Laptop for the ‘Poor’
Seen as the best attempt yet at bridging the "digital divide" is a laptop set to cost just $100 each. Currently only at the prototype stage, the...