Being Digital

Remembrance: The Unbearable Sentience of Being Digital

We introduce a world vision in which data is endowed with memory. In this data-centric systems paradigm, data items can be enabled to retain all or some of their previous values. We call this ability remembrance and posit that it empowers significant leaps in the security, availability, and general operational dimensions of systems. With the explosion in cheap, fast memories and storage, large-...

Human Being in the Digital World

Being Successful in Digital Government Projects

Members of a panel representing both the perspectives of researchers and the perspectives of individuals in government agencies will begin this session. Panel members will describe how they each found their partners, how they determined a research problem to solve, and how they engaged their sponsors or researchers. They will also give various tips and other experiences. They will provide insig...

Beyond being there? Evaluating augmented digital records

Technological advances have made possible a new generation of digital prosthetic memory devices (or memory aids). Yet we currently know little about when, how and why these devices might be useful. We evaluated two novel prosthetic memory devices in naturalistic and controlled learning settings. Both devices provide controlled access to annotated digital records of lectures, potentially freeing...

Being human in the Digital age

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