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Centre for Research in Computing, Open University

The Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) undertakes leading edge research in software and processes that underpin knowledge management, communication, learning, and interactions among humans and machines. CRC’s portfolio of work represents a wide range of disciplines including:

  • Knowledge media
  • Semantic web and ontologies
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Hypermedia
  • Natural language processing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Social software
  • Software requirements, engineering and design

Much of CRC’s work leverages the competitive advantage of the Open University as the world's largest and best distance and e-learning organisation, enabling it to anticipate how learners will be working in a networked world. It grounds our technologies in the reality of the infrastructure that learners have, or will shortly have, at home and at work.

For more information visit the CRC website