About The Wayback Machine and MyLifeBits Project

[gary]

Hello from D.C.

I just posted this to the ResourceShelf but thought it worthy of direct posting 
to the list. 


A legnthy interview with Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive and The Wayback 
Machine. 
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23701




Also, in New Scientist a report on the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft. 

>From the article, 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993084

>From the article, Engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, 
every letter you write - in fact your every memory and experience - into a 
surrogate brain that never forgets anything, New Scientist can reveal It is part 
of a curious venture dubbed the MyLifeBits project, in which engineers at 
Microsoft's Media Presence lab in San Francisco are aiming to build multimedia 
databases that chronicle people's life events and make them searchable. "Imagine 
being able to run a Google-like search on your life," says Gordon Bell, one of 
the developers."


cheers,
gary



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