KMi is a multidisciplinary R&D lab that has been at the forefront of innovation for the past 20 years. We lead in a number of areas, including Semantic Technologies, Educational Media, Social Media Analysis, Big Data, Blockchain, Smart Cities, IoT and others.
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I am a Professor of Computer Science[1], Director of the Knowledge Media Institute [2], the OU's technology research and innovation centre, and the President of STI International [3], a semantics...
Joining the OU in the Spring of 1992, my initial projects were related to the transcription of course material for print-disabled students. I was a founding member of KMi when it was launched in...
Testimonials
"If you are or want to be a brilliant mind, this is where you want to be!"
Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, Italy
"I cannot imagine going to a conference without experiencing deep scientific conversations with KMiers!"
Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM: Graduate School & Research Center, France
"Top location for SW research for decades and going strong!"
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
Publications
Mikroyannidis, A. (2020) Blockchain Applications in Education: A Case Study in Lifelong Learning, The 12th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2020), Valencia, Spain
Chowdhury, N., Ramachandran, M., Third, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Bachler, M. and Domingue, J. (2020) Towards A Blockchain-based Decentralised Educational Landscape, The 12th International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2020), Valencia, Spain
Dessi', D., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Buscaldi, D., Motta, E. and Sack, H. (2020) AI-KG: an Automatically Generated Knowledge Graph of Artificial Intelligence, International Semantic Web Conference 2020, Online
Recent Seminars
Dave Raggett
Cognitive AI - mimicking how we think
This event took place on Friday 06 November 2020
Professor Marc Eisenstadt
COVID-19 Antibody Test/Vaccination Certification: There's an app for that
This event took place on Tuesday 19 May 2020
Agnese Chiatti - Knowledge Media Institute
Is what you see really what you get? Improving robot sensemaking through Visual Intelligence
This event took place on Wednesday 25 March 2020
Lucas Anastasiou - KMi, Open University
Computational argumentation methods to improve sensemaking and evidence-based reasoning in online deliberation systems
This event took place on Wednesday 25 March 2020
