Biographie et présentation

Autres conférenciers

Gordon Bell

Principal Researcher
Microsoft

Gordon Bell is a principal researcher at Microsoft working on lifelogging and cloud computing, having spent 23 years at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President of R&D, where he was responsible for  the first mini- and time-sharing computers and the development of DEC’s VAX.  Bell has been involved in the design of products at Digital and over 100 startup companies.  As the first, Ass’t Director for Computing (CISE) at NSF, he led the National Research Network panel that became the Internet, and was an author of the High Performance Computer and Communications Initiative.   Bell is the author of books and papers on computer architecture, startup companies, and lifelogging. He is a member or Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Association of Computing Machinery,  Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Science, the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and  received The 1991 National Medal of Technology. He is a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.

1 session

Salle 1 à 14 h 15 - Présenté en anglais

The Path to Extreme Lifelogging

The notion of “logging” everything in one’s life includes the diary, Bush’s Memex, “research lifeloggers” with cameras, Gates’ prediction that “someday we can record everything we see and hear”, and our last decade project MyLifeBits that explored capturing everything for an individual.  MyLifeBits explored various aspects of content capture and use from content coming via computers and smartphones to phone calls through continuous photo recording with a SenseCam.  In order to have lifelogging, it has to be: easy to capture, store, and retrieve information;  “legal”; something people want i.e. have a market; and available because vendors are offering the appropriate products and services at the right price.  In the last six months over a dozen companies have started up to address this market and I predict that extreme lifelogging, whereby a video lifelog, may  exist for an individual.

BÉNÉFICES À RETIRER :

  • Looking at future, less traditional, computing applications
  • associated with advances in storage, the cloud,
  • and new interconnected sensing devices.