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Stanford releases the 2025 AI Index, with a little help from KMi
Wednesday 9 Apr 2025
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI published its 2025 AI Index report this week, providing a comprehensive look at the global state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The report, now in its eighth edition, tracks and visualises data on technical performance, economic impact, education, policy, and responsible AI to offer an empirical foundation for understanding the...
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KMi’s contributions to Open Repositories 2025: Advancing Open Access and Research Innovation
Friday 4 Apr 2025
CORE will be contributing seven accepted submissions to the 20th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2025), taking place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 15–18 June 2025. These presentations highlight ongoing efforts to enhance open access, improve research discoverability, and address key challenges in the open repositories community. From managing machine access in the era of...
AI, Colonialism & Feminism: How KMi Research Informs Global Gender Equality Efforts
Thursday 27 Mar 2025
Last week the Shifting Power team, represented by Senior Research Fellow in KMi, Dr. Tracie Farrell, spoke at the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). First established in 1946, the CSW is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to promote gender equality and the rights of women globally. The commission has spent the...
CORE Successfully Completes the USRN Discovery Pilot Project, Enhancing Repository Discoverability in the United States
Thursday 20 Mar 2025
A significant milestone has been reached: CORE’s pilot project with the USRN has concluded, delivering impressive outcomes, our pilot project with the United States Repository Network (USRN), a collaborative initiative between CORE, SPARC, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and AntLeaf. This pilot, which commenced in 2023, focused on assessing and increasing the discoverability and...
Food and Drinks Misinformation
Thursday 13 Mar 2025
No industry is immune to misinformation, including food and drinks. KMi’s director, Harith Alani, was interviewed by Food Manufacture; the leading online resource for the UK’s food and drink manufacturing industry, to highlight the threat of misinformation in this sector. Recently, false claims about the feed additive Bovaer, for instance, caused unnecessary consumer panic and...
KMi is delighted to announce that the Early Alert Indicators Dashboard, led by KMi’s Prof. Miriam Fernandez and powered by the OU Analyse team, has won the prestigious MK STEM Award 2025 in the AI Impact category. This accolade celebrates the team’s innovative use of artificial intelligence to transform education and promote equitable learning opportunities. The MK STEM Awards recognise excellence and innovation...
CORE presents SoFAIR project at UNESCOLast week saw CORE founder Professor Petr Knoth at UNESCO in Paris for the 2025 Software Heritage Symposium and summit. Professor Knoth was presenting the work undertaken in the first year of the SoFAIR project, a two-year multinational CHIST-ERA project. The Open University is working in conjunction with multiple partners including INRIA, Brno University of...
New KMi project to expand bibliotherapy for mental wellbeing across Northern Ireland
KMi at Dagstuhl: Shaping the Future of Knowledge Graph-Based AI
Celebrating Ángel Pavón Pérez’s Success: A Milestone in Fair and Responsible AI Research
KMi-led robotics project receives major funding to enhance hospital efficiency and safety
Climate misinformation surveillance project secures €1 million grant
