National
e-Science
Centre
Advanced Knowledge Technologies Workshop
e-Science Institute 29th June - 2nd July 2004
The Advanced Knowledge Technologies project (AKT) held its semiannual workshop at NeSC on
29th June-2nd July. AKT, which is attempting to develop computer technologies for the next
generation of the World Wide Web, is a collaboration between five British universities (Aberdeen,
Edinburgh, the Open University, Sheffield and Southampton), and its workshops bring its
researchers together to collaborate, exchange ideas, check on progress - and catch up with the
gossip! With Edinburgh as host for Summer 2004, about 50 people gathered to hear the first
day's plenary talks, before spending the next three days in smaller dedicated ad hoc groups
working collaboratively on specific problems. AKT's Principal Investigators and
Steering Committee were also able to conduct higher level administrative and strategic
meetings. The workshop set AKT's research agenda for the next six to twelve months, which will
be reviewed at the Winter 2005 workshop, when it will be Southampton's turn to provide the
venue.
Dr Kieron O'Hara
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton