Archive for July, 2009

what languages qKAI is written in

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Today I’ve been asked by a fellow student what languages qKAI is written in. So I launched CLOC and, before presenting you the output, I must give the remark that the actual language usage might change drastically in future. But here is the graph: (more…)

Specification of information units

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Jan Hein finished his Master thesis at the end of 2008 with the topic: ‘Specification and implementation of information units for qualifying knowledge modelling’ (Thesis in German). Automated extraction of text chunks out of Wikipedia without loosing structure and context is next to semantic annotation the main focus of his work.

The specification of information units can be found here: http://qkai.org/spec/2008/10/

The Wikipedia Extractor prototype is available under http://qkai.org/WikipediaExtractor

increasing productivity – part 1: Maven

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

One of the most important challenges to face first is leveraging developers’ time for maximum efficiency. At qKAI this is especially due to students, writing their theses, contribute to the code base. Therefore we have established several tools to spare them redundant work, maintain a constant code quality and automate the build.

This time I will write about Maven, (more…)

Book chapter “Games make better …” by Mark Prensky

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Scoyo, the Berlin Media Professional School and the FU Berlin published an E-Book about Social Educational Gaming: “Spielend lernen – Aspekte des Game-Basierten Social Learning”.

There is enclosed an interesting, english chapter by Mark Prensky: “Games make better …”.