Organizing Your Information

Lifestreams: Organizing your Electronic Life

The "Web," an attempt to organize the electronic world, has become the focus of a wide range of research activities from agents to information retrieval to virtual reality systems, and is a central focus of work presented at this symposium. Our work considers a more humble task: that of organizing our own electronic lives. We introduce a new metaphor, Lifestreams, for dynamically organizing a u...

Organizing Information

College of Library and Information Services University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Organizing Information Organizing information is at the heart of information science and is important in many other areas as well. In bibliographic and similar information systems it involves classification as well as the description of documents or other entities; in database management it is known as dat...

Self-organizing spots get under your skin

Sixty-five years after Turing first revealed the potential of systems with local activation and long-range inhibition to generate pattern, we have only recently begun to identify the biological elements that operate at many scales to generate periodic patterns in nature. In this Primer, we first review the theoretical framework provided by Turing, Meinhardt, and others that suggests how periodi...

What's Your Information Agenda?

“As the information age rolls forward, our businesses, markets and societies are being transformed into adaptive, connected networks. The Internet of today only hints at the ubiquitous communication infrastructure of tomorrow. The construction of this brave new world requires a new kind of architecture, focused on digital structures of information and software rather than physical structures of...

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