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KMi Seminars
The FlashMeeting Project: an Update
This event took place on Wednesday 01 April 2009 at 11:30

 
Dr. Kevin Quick KMi, The Open University

Flashmeeting is a desktop video conferencing tool developed entirely within KMi and which is now unbelievably nearly 5 years old! During this time it has proved an invaluable tool for many people e.g. for project meetings and particularly EU project meetings, within schools, presentations and collaborative learning/team working activities etc. In addition to the success with clients, the vast quantity of data generated from these meetings has provided a rich source of material for our academic research. Flashmeeting is a continuously developing tool, and many new and powerful features have been added in recent times. The seminar will aim to introduce Flashmeeting to those who may not yet have discovered it, and to further describe and demonstrate some of the newer features that existing users may not be aware of. The seminar will also touch on some of the tool's commercial and research directions.

http://www.flashmeeting.com

 
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Future Internet is...


Future Internet
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

  • Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

  • Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection

  • Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated

  • Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities

  • Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities