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Thanks also to others who helped with MyLifeBits and CARPE: Aleks Aris, Josh Blumenstock, Mary Czerwinski, Steve Drucker, Jonathan Fay, Steve Hodges, Ron Logan, Kenji Mase, Brian Meyers, Tripp Millican, Evan Salomon, Hari Sundaram, Kentaro Toyama, Curtis Wong, Zhe Wang, and Ken Wood. The arrival of Lyndsay Williams’s SenseCam in 2003 added another dimension to the project.
Gordon would like to thank his family and friends for their encouragement and especially the enrichment of MyLifeBits. Vicki Rozycki digitized the thousands of items constituting MyLifeBits that enables him to have a real, living, working, essential e-memory.
Jim would like to thank Elizabeth, Sam, Naomi, Judah, Levi, Miriam, and Sara for their support through the hectic writing schedule.
Finally, we want to thank Microsoft, Microsoft Research, and especially Jim Gray. We had the privilege of working for Jim Gray for more than ten years in his Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco. For his Turing Award lecture, Jim outlined some key future research goals, one of them being: “Personal Memex: Record everything a person sees and hears, and quickly retrieve any item on request.” Without Jim’s support, there would have been no MyLifeBits, and we would not have written this book.
INDEX
A
Aaron computer program
absentmindedness
academia. See education; research
accelerometers
accessibility of data- . See also organization of data
ACM Multimedia 2004,
adaptation
address books
Adobe
Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems Technology (ASSIST)
aerial imagery
afterlife, digital
Allen, David
alphabetic sorting
Alzheimer’s disease
Amazon.com
American Heart Association
Android
annotation
anonymity. See also privacy issues
antisocial behavior
AOL
Apple
appliances
archivists
arguments
artificial intelligence
“As We May Think” (Bush)
associative memory
astronomy
asynchronous logic
Atlantic Monthly
AT&T
audio recordings and files
and human development research
and legal issues
and lifelogging
and memex
and metadata
and note taking
and storytelling
and total data collection
and travelogues
auditory learners
Augment system
autofill features
autographs
automatic teller machines (ATMs)
automation
automobiles
availability of information. See also searching data
avatars
Azure
B
Baby Boomer
backing-up data
Baldridge, Aimee
Ballmer, Steve
Bannon, Liam
Barclay, Tom
battery technology
battlefield awareness
Bay Area Research Center (BARC)
Bell Electric
Bickmore, Timothy
billing statements See also financial and transaction data
biographies
biomarker testing
biometric sensors
and battery technology
and cardiac health
forerunners of
and health management
and lifelogging
and miniaturization
and StartleCam
and unified communications
BitLocker
BlackBerry
blocking memories
blogs and blogging
blood pressure data
blood sampling
BodyBugg
boilerplate forms
bookmarks
books
Brahe, Tycho
Brain Age
Brain Fitness Program
A Brief History of Time (Hawking)
British Library
British National Health Service
Bush, Vannevar
and higher learning
and lifelong learning
and memex
on scientific research
and “trails,”
business card scanners
Business Channel
C
calendars
Calvin, John
cameras
and bio-memory
and digitizing images
and electronic memory
and GPS technology
and health data
and implementation of Total Recall,
and lifelogging
and memex
and miniaturization
and picture-taking mirrors
and scanners
and SenseCam
and smartphones
and Soldier Assist System
and storytelling
and surveillance
and travelogues
and user interfaces
and Wi-Fi
Canada
Canyon Ranch wellness center
Car Talk (radio)
cardiac health
Carnegie Mellon University
Carved in Sand (Ramin)
categorization schemes . See also files-and-folders