The e-memory revolution is changing everything.
Be part of the conversation.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 2:48PM The Computer History Museum Presents
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
6 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Program
Wine for the reception provided by the Mountain Winery
LOCATION
The Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043
computer history museum, event Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 1:33PM Microsoft Researcher Records His Life in Data, by Steven Leckart. Wired 17.09
Excerpts:
Over the course of a lifetime, humans take in more information and memories than their brains can handle. Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell believes this to be a bug, not a feature...
In Total Recall, which Bell published with research partner Jim Gemmell, the 75-year-old describes how his archive has worked for him. ...
Bell's data dump is more than just a glorified photo album. By using e-memory as a surrogate for meat-based memory, he argues, we free our minds to engage in more creativity, learning, and innovation (sort of like Getting Things Done without all those darn Post-its). ...
Wired Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 4:11PM BBC describes the MyLifeBit project prior to Total Recall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8206971.stm
The 7 minute mp3 podcast interview, starts 21 minutes into the Digital Planet broadcast and can be downloaded from:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/digitalp/digitalp_20090818-0830b.mp3
The interviewers make the nice observation that many of us, are already saving our lives digitally. All that is required is to not delete anything on our computers, a point we emphasize and re-emphasize in nearly every chapter of Total Recall.
paperless in Getting Started, MyLifeBits Monday, August 3, 2009 at 2:58PM Having a camera that takes pictures automatically means capturing some wonderful moments that would otherwise remain unphotographed. The SenseCam, invented by Lyndsay Williams when she was at the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge, England, Is equipped with sensors. It has a passive infrared sensor, so if a person is in front of it, it takes a picture. It has light level sensors, so if you walk through a doorway and the light level changes, it detects the change of place and takes a picture. It has an accelerometer, so it knows when it is jiggling, and waits until it settles down to avoid taking a blurry picture. Its fisheye lens makes sure it gets the whole scene.
Here are a few pictures from SenseCam I am very glad to have, and which I would never have taken with a regular camera: being interviewed by Alec Wilkenson of the New Yorker, meeting professor Ben Schneiderman for the first time, coffee with artist Glenn Payan, professor Hari Sundaram makes a point, and bumping into colleague Hong-Jiang Zhang at a hotel check-in desk.
