Member
Marc Eisenstadt
Emeritus Professor; KMi Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
CURRENT ACTIVITY: Tamper-proof COVID-19 Vaccination & Test Result Certification. PAST ACTIVITY: I co-founded KMi in 1994, served as KMi Director until 2000 and became Chief Scientist until my retirement in 2007. Building upon my long-term interests and background in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and novice programming environments, my research focus included very large scale presence via messaging and gaming; social software; knowledge technologies as mediating tools for human interaction; internet mapping and visualization. My KMi colleagues and I created a variety of widely-used software environments, tools, and projects including Lyceum, KMi Stadium, BuddySpace, CitiTag and Meetomatic. Recently I have been working with the Blockchain Group, in particular on COVID-19 Test and Vaccination Certification (see the 24 April 2020 news story and IEEE publication below for additional info and links). For my music and other activities, see my LinkedIn profile via the link at left.
Keys: Social software, presence, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, blockchain, COVID-19 research, Open Blockchain
Projects
Technologies
News
08 Dec 2025
24 Apr 2020
18 Nov 2019
27 Nov 2007
21 Nov 2007
Publications
Vogiazou, Y., Dzbor, M., Komzak, J. and Eisenstadt, M. (2003). Buddyspace: Large-Scale Presence for Communities at Work and Play. Tech Report KMi-03-14, The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/106018/.
Eisenstadt, M. and Vincent, T. (2000). The Knowledge Web: Learning and Collaborating on the Net. London: Routledge. https://oro.open.ac.uk/101644/.
Eisenstadt, M. (1992). Design Features of a Friendly Software Environment For Novice Programmers. In: Eisenstadt, Marc and Rajan, Tim eds. Novice Programming Environments. Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. London: Routledge, pp. 3–30. https://oro.open.ac.uk/79817/.
Eisenstadt, M. and Breuker, J. (1992). Naive Iteration: An Account of the Conceptualizations Underlying Buggy Looping Programs. In: Eisenstadt, Marc; Keane, Mark and Rajan, Tim eds. Novice Programming Environments. Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. London: Routledge, pp. 173–188. https://oro.open.ac.uk/79815/.
Eisenstadt, M. and Brayshaw, M. (1992). 3 A Fine-Grained Account of Prolog Execution for Teaching and Debugging 1. In: Eisenstadt, Marc; Keane, Mark T. and Rajan, Tim eds. Novice Programming Environments. Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. London: Routledge, pp. 61–91. https://oro.open.ac.uk/79812/.
Eisenstadt, M., Ramachandran, M., Chowdhury, N., Third, A. and Domingue, J. (2020). COVID-19 Antibody Test/Vaccination Certification There’s an app for that. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1 pp. 148–155. https://oro.open.ac.uk/71083/.
Zhu, J., Song, D., Rüger, S., Eisenstadt, M. and Motta, E. (2006). The Open University at TREC 2006 Enterprise Track ExpertSearch Task. In: Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2006), 14-17 Nov 2006, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/36078/.
Buckingham Shum, S., De Roure, D., Eisenstadt, M., Shadbolt, N. and Tate, A. (2002). CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid. In: Second Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments, Eleventh IEEE Int. Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 11), 24-26 Jul 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28676/.
Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C. and Rüger, S. (2009). DYNIQX: A novel meta-search engine for the web. International Journal of Information Studies, 1(1), pp. 2–27. https://oro.open.ac.uk/25878/.
Zhu, J., Song, D., Eisenstadt, M., Barladeanu, C. and Rüger, S. (2008). Dyniqx: a novel meta-search engine for metadata based cross search. In: 1st International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008), 4-6 Aug 2008, Ostrava, Czech Republic. https://oro.open.ac.uk/25889/.
Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S., Bachler, M., Tomadaki, E., Scott, P., Little, A. and Eisenstadt, M. (2009). Knowledge media tools to foster social learning. In: Hatzipanagos, Stylianos and Warburton, Steven eds. Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. Hershey, PA, USA: IGI Global, pp. 357–380. https://oro.open.ac.uk/25144/.
Zhu, J., Eisenstadt, M., Goncalves, A., Denham, C., Uren, V. and Song, D. (2007). Social Search with Missing Data: Which Ranking Algorithm? Journal of Digital Information Management: Special Issue on Web Retrieval, 5(5), pp. 249–261. https://oro.open.ac.uk/9730/.
Zhu, J., Goncalves, A.L., Uren, V.S., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Eisenstadt, M. and Song, D. (2007). Relation Discovery from web data for competency management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, 5(4), pp. 405–417. https://oro.open.ac.uk/8165/.
Vogiazou, Y., Eisenstadt, M., Dzbor, M. and Komzak, J. (2005). From Buddyspace to CitiTag: Large-scale Symbolic Presence for Community Building and Spontaneous Play. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 13-17 Mar 2005, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6203/.
Vogiazou, Y. and Eisenstadt, M. (2005). Designing multiplayer games to facilitate emergent social behaviours online. Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2(2), pp. 117–130. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6204/.
Gaved, M., Heath, T. and Eisenstadt, M. (2006). Wikis of Locality: Insights from the Open Guides. In: ACM 2006 International Symposium on Wikis: WikiSym '06, 21-23 Aug 2006, Odense, Denmark. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6206/.
Page, K.R., Michaelides, D.T., Buckingham Shum, S.J., Chen-Buger, Y.H., Dalton, J., Eisenstadt, M., Potter, S., Shadbolt, N.R., Tate, A., Bachler, M. and Komzak, J. (2005). Collaboration in the semantic grid: a basis for e-learning. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 19(9-10), pp. 881–904. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6202/.
Vogiazou, Y., Raijmakers, B., Geelhoed, E., Reid, J. and Eisenstadt, M. (2007). Design for emergence: experiments with a mixed reality urban playground game. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11(1), pp. 45–58. https://oro.open.ac.uk/3009/.
Zhu, J., Eisenstadt, M., Song, D. and Denham, C. (2006). Exploiting semantic association to answer 'vague queries'. In: Fourth International Conference on Active Media Technology, 7-9 Jun 2006, Brisbane, Australia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/3010/.
Tech Reports
The Open University at TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Expert Search Task
Techreport ID: kmi-07-02
Date: 2007
Author(s): Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Stefan Rüger, Marc Eisenstadt, Enrico Motta
Exploiting Semantic Association To Answer Vague Queries
Techreport ID: KMI-06-01
Date: 2006
Author(s): Jianhan Zhu, Marc Eisenstadt, Dawei Song, Chris Denham
BuddyFinder-CORDER: Leveraging Social Networks for Matchmaking by Opportunistic Discovery
Techreport ID: kmi-05-13
Date: 2005
Author(s): Jianhan Zhu, Marc Eisenstadt, Alexandre Goncalves, Chris Denham












