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Software Backs Up Human Memory
CWmike writes "Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text on everyday mobile devices, then allows the user extract them later on, to help them recall names, faces, conversations and events. IBM's project is akin to one that Gordon Bell and other scientists at Microsoft Research have been working on for the past nine years."
good advice!
ill put that in my palm pilot notes right now.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
What were we JUST talking about?
Cool! Amazing Toys.
If only that were the case at the bar. This happens far, far too often. I'd love some kind of memory aid.
[talking to hot woman]
Me: "Hey. So, you're a biology nut and read Neal Stephanson in your spare time? Hey, what's your name?"
Her: "Alice, and you are?"
Me: "Dan. So, can you hold on a minute? I've got to run to the bathroom."
[thinking] ...
"Must remember name is Alice"
"Must remember name is Alice"
"Must remember name is Alice"
"Must remember name is Alice"
"Must remember name is Alice"
[comes back]
Me: "So, Emily how are you doing?"
Her: "Uhm, I'm Alice."
*crap*
LISTER: (upon seeing a large needle that KRYTEN just removed the air from) Kryten, what's that for?
KRYTEN: It's a mental emetic.
LISTER: A what?
KRYTEN: A mind enema -- so we can flush out your brain.
LISTER: Nobody's flush'n out my brain.
KRYTEN: We'll transfer it back afterwards.
LISTER: You are not sticking that thing in my head.
Leela: "Is all the work done by children?" Alien: "No, not the whipping."
They call it Homeland Security.
You want to take the crap before you come back from the bathroom.
Blank until
I'll stick to my system of polaroids and tattoos
Dunno, but we now get to discover if fictional characters can sue IBM for patent infringement - assuming Dumbledore remembered to file.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
And call it "A cure for marijuana".
I record my sleeptalking
...to turn it on?
... can it also help forget, because I have seen two girls and a cup and things that have been seen can not be unseen (for now).
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I worked on a very similar project but now I can't remember what it's called.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
and a Pen Sieve is a device for sorting your big pens from your little pens.
I just got something: It's "Read The Featured Article". I thought It was somthing else... Someone should really write these things out occasionally. My opinion of slashdotters everywhere has risen slightly. Consequently, opinions of me may lower... But I don't care what the world thinks of mw. FTW!
Wow! I can't wait for IBM to unveil their Horcrux technology!
CWmike writes "Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you're not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text on everyday mobile devices, then allows the user extract them later on, to help them recall names, faces, conversations and events. IBM's project is akin to one that Gordon Bell and other scientists at Microsoft Research have been working on for the past nine years."
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Look at your slashdot ID. 157947 can be written as 1 - 57 - 9 - 47. Its all downhill from there.
47 is easy if you are a Star Trek or a Hitman fan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/47_(number)
9+1 are 10. Which is how much you need to add (as you are going downhill, or backwards) to 47 to get the SECOND PAIR of numbers.
Or you can start at 15, the first 2 digits, divide it in half like they are integers and get the 7, add 2 and get 9, add the 2's you used so far to get 4, and either subtract that 2 you added to the 9 earlier to get the final 7 or just remember that 1337 starts with 1 and ends with 7.
Yeah... I know... I've been confusing people with my number mnemonics for years.
I've looked at my fiancee's phone number thousands of times since we started dating 7 years ago, and all I remember is that it has like an 8 in it.
Or, why don't you try spelling it?
Or use some other mnemonic
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
A happy grammar nazi? Could this be a world first?
And then the device gets stolen or breaks ...
More likely, it will be taken by your DHS to fight 'global terrorism'.
CC.
TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)