Personal Memex

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Personal Memex
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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

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Trying to fill a terabyte in a year
Item Items/TB Items/day
300 KB JPEG 3.6M 9800
1 MB Doc 1.0M 2900
1 hour 256 kb/s MP3 audio 9.3K 26
1 hour 1.5 Mbp/s MPEG video 290 4
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Gordon Bells MyLifeBitsDigitize EverythingA
BIG shoebox?

• Scans 20 k pages tiff_at_ 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

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Mining human informationQuestion 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

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When did Abraham Lincoln die?
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Search
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Thumbnail view(sizeable thumbs)
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Timeline view
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TimeSheets
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Gang annotation / collection

• 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!

Add text annotation Add audio annotation Add
video annotation __________________ Thumbs
up Thumbs down
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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

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Resource explorerParent,child what is it panes
turned on