William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life.

Currently he has been working on the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:16 - Keeping found things found

3:44 - Storing information

5:20 - Using folders

8:44 - New ways of searching

13:38 - Embodied information and search

16:20 - Value of memorization

20:20 - Personal AI assistants

30:20 - Language and thought

35:30 - Thriving in Time

42:44 - Aging gracefully

55:16 - Contract between generations

1:02:44 - What to look forward to

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