Forget about forgetfulness: IBM scientists have come up with a high-tech way to help you remember every name, face and phone number you encounter. The technology — named “Pensieve,” in a nod to the magical memory machine from the “Harry Potter” series — uses data from your mobile devices to build and store connections from your day-to-day experiences. Pensieve, its creators claim, can actually recognize not just information but also the context in which it occurred — conceptually mimicking the human mind’s association-based memory system.
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IBM Unveils Hogwarts-Inspired Personal Memory Vault
Posted by: JR Raphael August 1, 2008 10:49 AMForget about forgetfulness: IBM scientists have come up with a high-tech way to help you remember every name, face and phone number you encounter. The technology — named “Pensieve,” in a nod to the magical memory machine from the “Harry Potter” series — uses data from your mobile devices to build and store connections from your day-to-day experiences. Pensieve, its creators claim, can actually recognize not just information but also the context in which it occurred — conceptually mimicking the human mind’s association-based memory system.