MyLifeBits

My LifeBits is the name of a research project by Microsoft Research that pursues the goal of recording as many details that surround a person in the course of his life. This may be information that he deliberately, unconsciously or not at all perceive as vision, hearing, concentration of CO2 in the breath or recordings of a thermal imaging camera. In addition, to be developed by the project software that structured these large amounts of data, making it easier to access.

Because of constantly falling prices for storage media and sensors, the first project goal is already achieved. The Microsoft representative Gordon Bell digitized over several years all of his previously collected documents, photos, videos, recordings of his answering machine, etc., and is thus paperless. From 2001 to 2007 Bell saved as 150 GB of data on its hard drives, among others, also developed by the Microsoft SenseCam, which he wears around his neck. Furthermore, his whereabouts is logged by GPS, which can be assigned to his other recordings by date and time.

Important technologies for the project's success are the voice and face recognition.

MyLifeBits presents the digital implementation of the 1945 Vannevar Bush dar. in an article described analog Memex (memory extender)