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New from the MyLifeBits team at MSR: An Online Demo

The MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research is one we’ve posted about many times on ResourceShelf and one that has received a large amount of press attention for the person central to the project, Gordon Bell. Links to a few of our posts from the past five years can be found below. The MLB home page is loaded with even more background and papers by Bell and his colleagues, Jim Gemmell and Roger Lueder.

Basically MyLifeBits is based on Vannevar Bush’s Memex vision published in the July 1945 article, “As We May Think.” If you’ve never read this important and fascinating article, it’s MORE than worthy of your time. It’s required reading in some Library and Info Science programs.

MyLifeBits is a digital storehouse of just about everything in Dr. Bell’s life.

[MLB is] a lifetime’s worth of articles, books, cards, CDs, letters, memos, papers, photos, pictures, presentations, home movies, videotaped lectures, and voice recordings and stored them digitally. He is now paperless, and is beginning to capture phone calls, IM transcripts, television, and radio.

See Also:
+ A Head For Detail: A Profile of Gordon Bell and the Microsoft Research MyLifeBits Project (2006)

+ New Article/Report MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything (2006)

+ Passive Capture and Ensuing Issues for a Personal Lifetime Store (From The First ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences, 2004)
Paper (PDF) ||| PPT Slides

A New Article About the MyLifeBits Project from Microsoft Research (2003)

See Also: Microsoft and the Memex (2003)

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