Digital age may bring total recall in future
CNN takes a look at the work of Gordon Bell at Microsoft Research and the MyLifeBits project.

There are two parts to the project. The first is Bell’s experiment with life storage — capturing his papers, faxes, phone calls, photographs and home movies in digitalized form. The second part focuses on developing software that would support this type of lifetime library on anyone’s computer.

“The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that’s as good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and will remember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears, eyes, whatever,” Bell said of his experiment.

Also, discussion of the research of Sunil Vemuri.

Sunil Vemuri’s project is similar but on a slightly smaller scale. Two years ago, as a doctoral student in the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he set out to develop a device designed to combat memory problems…His project’s focus was a wireless device that sat on his hip, much like a BlackBerry. The device recorded audio from conversations and other happenings in his life, and once recorded, sent the audio files to a computer that translated them into text. These text files were searchable by key words, and through contextual information such as weather or location, also recorded when the file was created. Since the beginning of his project, Vemuri has co-founded a company called QTech Inc., which like his dissertation project, seeks to address memory problems through technology.

Source: CNN

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