The Remembrance Agent: No, it's not a potion to help you remember the phone number of Suzy Schlokenheimer from the fourth grade. Rather, it's a Unix-based software program that continuously searches your notes, files, and saved email to reference needed information. Whether you're surfing the Web, writing a dissertation, or skimming an inter-office memo, the Remembrance Agent will identify related files in a window on the bottom of your computer screen. Bradley Rhodes, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, developed the program based on fellow grad student Thad Starner's earlier research, and it's downloadable from Rhodes's Web site (rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/). He predicts the Remembrance Agent will be sold commercially within the next two years. "There are a lot of people interested," he hints.
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