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Personal Memex

Personal Memex. Memex As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, 1945. “A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility”

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Personal Memex

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  1. Personal Memex

  2. MemexAs We May Think, Vannevar Bush, 1945 “A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility” “yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so that he can be profligate and enter material freely”

  3. Trying to fill a terabyte in a year

  4. Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBitsDigitize EverythingA BIG shoebox? • Scans 20 k “pages” tiff@ 300 dpi 1 GB • Music: 2 k “tacks” 7 GB • Photos: 13 k images 2 GB • Video: 10 hrs 3 GB • Docs: 3 k (ppt, word,..) 2 GB • Mail: 100 k messages 3 GB 18 GB

  5. Mining human information:Question answering • Allow users to ask questions naturally • Use network to collect information from many sources • Mine information by looking for actual answer to the given question

  6. When did Abraham Lincoln die?

  7. Search

  8. Thumbnail view(sizeable thumbs)

  9. Timeline view

  10. TimeSheets

  11. Select items, then right click to annotate or add to collection.(Predefined annotations like “thumbs up” in one click.) Sometimes you just want to say it! Gang annotation / collection Add text annotation Add audio annotation Add video annotation __________________ Thumbs up Thumbs down

  12. Browser integration • Save every page you visit • Add annotations from the browser • “continuous annotation” – text is applied to all pages you visit until you turn it off • Search MyLifeBits from browser • Shows annotations of search results • Supports different visualizations

  13. Resource explorerParent,child & what is it panes turned on

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