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  1. Re:The thing that comes to mind... by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Informative · on Sergey Brin Shows Project Glass Glasses to Journalists (Video)
    Wired's been doing stories on DIY wearable computer people from at least the mid 90's. See also the remembrance agent web page. It never really caught on that much, though nifty feats like performing facial recognition on people and bringing up information on them, placing IR beacons to which data could be attached to locations and video-recording everything with a camera capable of slowing down the wheels on a moving car so you could read the manufacturer details have been reported. The early papers on the subject talk about what a ubiquitous computing device you carry around on your person would be like, and it pretty much describes today's cell phones.

    The limiting factors in the past have been I/O -- most of the early adopters went with one-handed "chording" keyboards and bulky, ugly head mounted displays. They also usually ended up carrying around a backpack with large-ish home made computer in it. Since a lot of people now carry around a computer with the appropriate capabilities and voice recognition has come along nicely, perhaps the I/O thing can be solved, too. I'm not sure a lot of people will go for wearing glasses full time, but if the value add is there, maybe I'm wrong.

  2. Vi Style Paren Matching by Greyfox · · Score: 1 · on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks?
    The one thing I always really miss from vi is the paren matching. The emacs manner of matching parens does not go far enough. Fortunately someone documented this: http://grok2.tripod.com/index.html#MatchParenthesis

    For a while I used emacs as my mail client and news reader. This far I haven't not found another mail client that can match the functionality provided by vm plus the MIT Remembrance Agent. Unfortunately it's something of a pain in the ass to set it all up and I don't get enough non-spam email outside of work to bother with it.

  3. Rememberance Agent by Tekmage · · Score: 2, Interesting · on KDE Plans 'Google-like' Search Capabilities

    That whole text searching, no-dialogs blurb sounds a lot like The Remembrance Agent, as it plugs into emacs.

    I had started coding up a Java-based front-end which monitored the X clipboard buffer, but didn't get very far - lack of time. What little code I did write can be found here.

  4. Remembrance Agent for emacs all over again. by Matt+Perry · · Score: 1 · on Blinkx and You Won't Miss It

    Sounds just like the Remembrance Agent for emacs which has been around since about 1996. It's also similar to the Dashboard program that Nat Friedman made for Gnome. There's enough prior art that I have no doubt that blinkx will get a patent.

  5. Need... by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Interesting · on AMD Moves Closer To Linux PDA
    2 weeks battery life minimum.

    A "Keyboard" of some sort. None of that graffiti crap for me.

    EMACS.

    No, this isn't a troll. Emacs does everything I need it to do. Seriously. It's got all the PIM functionality in a well-integrated set of programs and it's easily extensible. And the MIT remembrance agent is way cool. Nothing else I've run across comes remotely close to its functionality.

    The Sharp Zaurus was pretty close to my needs except that the battery life really sucked.

  6. Remembrance Agent. by bretth · · Score: 1 · on How Do You Organize Your Data?

    I organise my documents in the usual hierarchy, and then use the rememberance agent and emacs and it shows me a list of documents that most relate to the stuff I'm currently working on.

  7. Agent Smith by Uncle+Op · · Score: 1 · on Executive Secretary In Every Computer
    Remembrance agents have been around for a while. They learn, and they can be intrusive, er, obsequious, or come only when called.

    Q: Do you anticipate a lot of privacy concerns over this?
    A: Absolutely. We're O.K. with the idea that other people sitting in our office know most of what we do. But people are much less comfortable that there's a record of this on their computer. There's also the issue of security. But [monitoring of employee activities] already [goes] on.
    Actually, I'm not "really O.K." with the idea that others in my office know most of what "we" do; that's why I work from home. I don't mind my family knowing, though, which is why I work from home. What my employer should want to know is that a) I'm getting the desired task accomplished and b) not doing something that can directly and negatively impact the company. But "b" shouldn't be a problem if the employer has vetted me to their satisfaction, which is a completely different problem.
  8. Remembrance Agent by TheTick · · Score: 1 · on Backup Your Life on a DVD

    There are three fundamental requirements for this to work:

    1. Capture
    2. Storage
    3. Retrieval
    Assuming we store all the things mentioned in the article, the storage requirement really becomes indexing.

    MIT's media lab have been working on a retrieval system called The Remembrance Agent. At version 2.11, it's pretty mature. I guess you'd have to call it a prototype since it works by watching what you do in emacs or xemacs and suggesting related documents. The Remembrance Agent is GPL'd, BTW.

  9. Remembrance Agent by TheTick · · Score: 1 · on Backup Your Life on a DVD

    There are three fundamental requirements for this to work:

    1. Capture
    2. Storage
    3. Retrieval
    Assuming we store all the things mentioned in the article, the storage requirement really becomes indexing.

    MIT's media lab have been working on a retrieval system called The Remembrance Agent. At version 2.11, it's pretty mature. I guess you'd have to call it a prototype since it works by watching what you do in emacs or xemacs and suggesting related documents. The Remembrance Agent is GPL'd, BTW.