Total Recall - C. Gordon Bell [95]
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining.
Total Recall predicts the future based on technology trends. A similar book in this genre is Being Digital, which did a wonderful job in 1995 of predicting our digital lives today.
Negroponte, Nicholas. 1995. Being Digital. New York: Alfred A. K nopf.
2. MY LIFE BITS
Million Books Project (also called the Universal Library Project) Web site. http://www.ulib.org
Project Gutenberg Web site. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Foer, Jonathan Safran. 2006. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. New York: Mariner Books.
Bill Gates and Jim Gray were inspirations to us.
Gates, Bill. 1996. The Road Ahead. New York: Penguin Books.
Gray, Jim. 1999. “What’s Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals.” Journal of the ACM 50:41-57.
About the Aaron painting program:
Cohen, Harold. 1995. “The Further Exploits of AARON, Painter.” Stanford Humanities Review 4, issue 2 (July): Constructions of the Mind. http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/cohen.html
Memex was proposed by Bush in his Atlantic Monthly article.
Bush, Vannevar. 1945. “As We May Think.” Atlantic Monthly (July). Reprinted in Life magazine, September 10, 1945. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
This book tells you much more about Bush, his life, and his amazing technological vision.
Nyce, James M., and Paul Kahn (eds.). 1992. From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine. Boston: Academic Press.
In this report, Bush proposes the National Science Foundation (NSF) and more.
Bush, Vannevar. 1945. “Science The Endless Frontier. A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945.” Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm; also available as ACLS Humanities E-Book (August 1, 2008).
Some believe that Paul Otlet, not Bush, ought to get the credit for the concept of hyperlinks for his 1934 “réseau” idea.
Wright, Alex. 2008. “The Web Time Forgot.” The New York Times (June 17).
In the 1960s, Ted Nelson took Bush’s ideas and extended them to support a new paradigm for literature in a networked world. He coined the term hypertext and proposed ideas that are current today, like virtually including one work inside another and using micropayments.
Nelson, Theodor Holm. 1993. Literary Machines. Sausalito, Calif.: Mindful Press.
Nelson, Theodor Holm. 1999. “Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More Than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning, and Deep Re-Use.” Computing Surveys (ACM) 3, issue 4es (December).
Another pioneer in the 1960s who was inspired by Bush was Douglas En glebart, who founded a research lab with the goal of “augmenting human intellect.” His lab developed a hypermedia groupware system called Augment (originally called NLS). Augment supported bookmarks, hyperlinks, recording of e-mail, a journal, and more.
Engelbart, Douglas C. “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Summary Report AFOSR-3223 Under Contract AF 49(638)- 1024,” SRI Project 3578 for Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Menlo Park, Calif.: Stanford Research Institute, October 1962.
———. “Authorship Provisions in AUGMENT.” COMPCON ’84 Digest: Proceedings of the COMPCON Conference, San Francisco, California, February 27-March 1, 1984, 465-72.
Many others besides us have noted the inadequacy of conventional computer file systems. Here are a few representative works.
Adar, Eytan, David Karger, and Lynn Andrea Stein. “Haystack: Per-User Information Environments,” 1999 Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Kansas City, Mo., 1999, 413-422.
Dourish, Paul, Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, John Lamping, Karin Petersen, Michael Salisbury, Douglas Terry, and Jim Thornton.