OAK

Happy New Year to everyone!

Happy Halloween to all the ghouls and spooks out there! Oak have had fun this year dressing up the lab to create a spooky lair.

Here is the OAK Group gravestone picture courtesy of Dr Stuart Wrigley but don't worry we're not really going anywhere, we shall continue to develop and show our research for years to come.

The OAK group in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield is offering a fully funded PhD in the areas of lifelogging, health and HCI.

A big boost this week with more than 200 km!! A few steps more and we would have been at the end! But we have plenty of time, one week more!!
New position on the map Uswayford, only 22 km to the end of the Pennine way
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&ms...

Great results this week!!
Nearly half way through the Pennine Way, we reached Baldersdale
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&ms...
We passed Ponden, Thornton-in-Craven, Malham, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Hawes, Keld... 7 milestones done and 234 km to the end!

The first week of the walking challenge is over. Three milestones done!!
We passed Torside, Standedge and Hebden Bridge and we are heading now to Ponden! There is still a long way Kirk Yetholm. Come on guys, keep walking, we have other three weeks to go there :)

Check the new position on the map
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&ms...

The first challenge for the Oak group starts today.
We have 9 active participants and everyone will contribute with individual km walked.
The challenge this month is to walk 429 km and complete the Pennine way!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?client=safari&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&ms...
First day of the challenge and we already got 4 km done ;)
Good luck everyone and see you in Kirk Yetholm!

The oak walking challenge will start from 1st of February. Internal registration closes 30th of January.

The oak walking challenge is a program to keep track of fitness activity of the group. All participants keep track of individual activities and report them internally. Everyone either report the number of km walked or the approximate number of minutes of physical activity performed (every minute is counted as 85 meters walked).

Happy 2011 to everyone! Since our website went up in August 2010, it seemed we hit a bit of a wall, and work on creating our site came to a halt. You'll be glad to hear however after the long Christmas and new year break, work on improving the site has begun again.

Today, Wednesday 18th of August 2010, the new OAK site has been made public as beta version. It is a full semantic web site where the information is stored in RDFa tags invisible to humans but available to machines.