MyLifeBits is a
Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft Research is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R...
project. It was inspired by
Vannevar BushVannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm-viewer which is somewhat analogous to the World Wide Web.Bush was a well-known...
's hypothetical
MemexThe memex is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think...
computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The "experimental subject" of the project is computer scientist
Gordon BellC. Gordon Bell is a computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX...
, and the project will try to collect a lifetime of storage on and about Bell. Jim Gemmell of Microsoft Research and Roger Lueder were the architects and creators of the system and its software.
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MyLifeBits is a
Microsoft ResearchMicrosoft Research is a division of Microsoft created in 1991 for researching various computer science topics and issues. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R...
project. It was inspired by
Vannevar BushVannevar Bush was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex, an adjustable microfilm-viewer which is somewhat analogous to the World Wide Web.Bush was a well-known...
's hypothetical
MemexThe memex is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think...
computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks. The "experimental subject" of the project is computer scientist
Gordon BellC. Gordon Bell is a computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX...
, and the project will try to collect a lifetime of storage on and about Bell. Jim Gemmell of Microsoft Research and Roger Lueder were the architects and creators of the system and its software.
See also
- Dymaxion Chronofile
The Dymaxion Chronofile is Buckminster Fuller's attempt to document his life as completely as possible. He created a very large scrapbook in which he documented his life every 15 minutes from 1915 to 1983. The scrapbook contains copies of all correspondence, bills, notes, sketches, and clippings...
- LifeLog
LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyAccording to its bid solicitation pamphlet, it was to be "an ontology-based system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and...
- Microsoft SenseCam
Microsoft's SenseCam is the key image capture tool for the MyLifeBits project, a lifetime storage database. SenseCam was invented by Researcher Lyndsay Williams of Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK in 1999. Early team members were James Srinivasan and Trevor Taylor...
- Sousveillance
Sousveillance as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity, typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the...
- Steve Mann
Steve Mann , is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.-Education:...
External links
- MyLifeBits Project
- Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell - A look into Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, Part I Channel9 video, including MyLifeBits material.
- Flogging Gordon Bell's Memory Thinking about how LifeLog
LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyAccording to its bid solicitation pamphlet, it was to be "an ontology-based system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and...
s, or FlogLifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyAccording to its bid solicitation pamphlet, it was to be "an ontology-based system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and...
s, would fundamentally change psychotherapyPsychotherapy or personal counseling with a psychotherapist, is an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a client or patient in problems of living.It aims to increase the individual's sense of their own well-being...
and psychiatryPsychiatry is a medical specialty officially devoted to the treatment and study of mental disorders. The term was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808....
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- " A Head For Detail" -(by Clive Thompson, Fast Company
Fast Company is a full-color not-quite-monthly business magazine that reports on innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design and social responsibility. It was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former Harvard Business Review editors...
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