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The AKT begins.....KMI awarded £1.2M by EPSRC
Enrico Motta, Wednesday 01 March 2000 | Annotate
KMi has been awarded �1.2M by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to carry out research in the application of knowledge technologies to support knowledge creation and sharing in organizations. This highly prestigious award has been obtained in the context of the EPSRC Programme on Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations centred on Information Technology.The project is called AKT: Advanced Knowledge Technologies and has a total budget of almost �7M. It will be carried out by a consortium comprising 5 universities and backed by over 20 industrial, commercial and governmental organizations. The academic partners are:
- University of Southampton (Electronics and Computer Science) - Coordinator
- University of Edinburgh (Division of Informatics)
- University of Sheffield (Computer Science)
- University of Aberdeen (Computer Science)
- The Open University (Knowledge Media Institute)
Relevant links
KMi's Knowledge Modelling Pages
Enrico Motta's home page
EPSRC's home page
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