ACKNOWLEDGM ENTS

We have many to thank for helping make this book a reality. Roger Lueder was our key collaborator throughout the MyLifeBits project. It was the vision of our agent, James Levine, that spurred us on toward a much broader audience. Our editor, Stephen Morrow, guided us out of the mire of the scientific writing style. We are very grateful to Bill Gates for his excellent foreword, and for his technological vision that was a key inspiration for this work. Others who provided invaluable help with the manuscript include Sheridan Forbes, Ray Ozzie, Dave Gemmell, David Rollo, Randy Hahn, and Michael Hahn.

Thanks also to others who helped with MyLifeBits and CARPE: Aleks Aris, Josh Blumenstock, Mary Czerwinski, Steve Drucker, Jonathan Fay, Steve Hodges, Ron Logan, Kenji Mase, Brian Meyers, Tripp Millican, Evan Salomon, Hari Sundaram, Kentaro Toyama, Curtis Wong, Zhe Wang, and Ken Wood. The arrival of Lyndsay Williams’s SenseCam in 2003 added another dimension to the project.

Gordon would like to thank his family and friends for their encouragement and especially the enrichment of MyLifeBits. Vicki Rozyck i digitized the thousands of items constituting MyLifeBits that enables him to have a real, living, working, essential e-memory.

Jim would like to thank Elizabeth, Sam, Naomi, Judah, Levi, Miriam, and Sara for their support through the hectic writing schedule.

Finally, we want to thank Microsoft, Microsoft Research, and especially Jim Gray. We had the privilege of working for Jim Gray for more than ten years in his Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco. For his Turing Award lecture, Jim outlined some key future research goals, one of them being: “Personal Memex: Record everything a person sees and hears, and quickly retrieve any item on request.” Without Jim’s support, there would have been no MyLifeBits, and we would not have written this book.