William Jones

http://faculty.washington.edu/williamj/
williamj [at] uw.edu
Faculty
Information School

All of my work going back to doctoral research into human memory long ago at Carnegie-Mellon has been motivated by the observation that information -- at the right place and time, in the right form, and coherently organized -- can help us to be very smart. Conversely, information missing or messy can overwhelm and make us stupid. How can we use information and informational tools as an extension to ourselves and according to the lives we want to live? This enduring interest has found expression in articles the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval and human cognition. Recently, I wrote the book “Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management” and also edited the book “Personal Information Management” (with Jaime Teevan as co-editor).