Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Memories

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"像阿童木那樣的世界級機械人," 天馬博士說, "他們的程式雖然複雜, 但不過是已知的而已. 那時候, 知道我想嘗試甚麼麼?"

茶水博士沒有回應.

"編制出可以將全世界六十億人口的全數的人格分析出來的程式."

Pluto, 第38話

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Apr 2008


(68 min)

Steve Whittaker, the information researcher in Sheffield University, presents

Recent technical developments have inspired an interest in 'digital memories': repositories for capturing our entire personal history of personal and work related information that will substitute for our fragile organic memories.

I will first review the Digital Memories vision, briefly present various studies that challenge that vision, moving on to suggest an alternative approach to the topic that is informed by cognitive science, suggesting that instead of focusing on exhaustive capture we should be designing prosthetic memory devices that are

(a) synergistic with our organic memories
(b) have mechanisms for selecting and abstracting critical events from the memory record.

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