MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision

By J. Gemmell, G. Bell, Roger Lueder, Steven Mark Drucker, C. Wong. MULTIMEDIA '02, 2002

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Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use (2003, background): “Others have also explored systems that move away from file hierarchies (e.g., Placeless System [11] and MyLifeBits [14]) and we will do so in the context of SIS with a rich user base.”
Smartphones (2009, neutral): “…be used by the subjects for self-reﬂection; memory augmentation; or, if media capture is used, as a way of organizing media and telling stories about them (examples include Nokia’s LifeBlog, 7 Microsoft’s MyLifeBits research effort [Gemmell et al. 2002], as well as our Merkitys–Meaning 8 software).”
Data integration: the teenage years (2006, background): “A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration.”
LifeLogging: Personal Big Data (2014, methodology): “Gordon Bell from Microsoft was one of the first to fully embrace digitising his life as part of the MyLifeBits project (Gemmell et al. (2002, 2006)) at Microsoft Research and this helped raise the profile of lifelogging.”
MemexQA: Visual Memex Question Answering (2017, background): “The concept of the Memex influenced the development of early hypertext systems, eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web [5] and the personal search system [9].”
Geographic location tags on digital images (2003, background): “Finally, there are grandly conceived projects which hope to geographically index all media associated with an individual [12], or all digital media [27].”