A picture is worth a thousand words …. Although this phrase emerged in the analog age of the early 20th century, the rise of digital photography offers the tantalizing possibility of joining each image’s thousand words with those of others,…
Objective Self 3: Quantified Self is a step towards Objective Self
The 21st century started with significantly advanced storage, processing, sensing, and communication technologies. All these have resulted in popularization of strong data-dependent approaches. Big Data became the biggest buzz word one can imagine. Since scientific approaches emphasized observation and systematic…
From Calendars to Chronicles: 2
For the longest time, people have been interested in past events as well as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about these events. The motivations for this ranges from simply revisiting enjoyable events to creating knowledge by analyzing…
Developing Actionable Personal Intelligence for everyone
Business intelligence emerged out of desire to correlate different data sources for analyzing focused business events for taking data-supported actions. We believe that time has come to develop actionable personal intelligence techniques using the data being continuously collected by our phones and other devices.
LifeLog made easy
A few years ago, lots of activity started in logging one’s lifeusing all kind of electronic devices. A DARPA project with the name LifeLog was launched but was later cancelled due to privacy issues. But many other efforts started at…