Search Your Memory! - An Associative Memory Based Desktop Search System

Speaker:	Dr. Jidong Chen
		EMC Research China

Title:		"Search Your Memory! - An Associative Memory Based
		 Desktop Search System"

Date:		Friday, 6 November 2009

Time:		2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:		Room 4480 (via lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

Personal search is different from web search in that users generally have a
vague picture of what is stored but forget the exact location and keywords
of the resource. According to observations of human associative memory,
people tend to remember things from some memory fragments in their brains
and these memory fragments are connected by memory cues of user activity
context. We propose the associative memory based personal search technology,
which exploits such associations and contexts by creating semantic links of
personal resources from explicit and implicit user activities. It is
superior to the traditional keyword based desktop search because it is
closer to the way that human associative memory works. For this work, we had
one demo paper in the SIGMOD 09 conference and one full paper in the CIKM 09
conference.


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Biography:

Dr. Jidong Chen is a Senior Research Scientist at EMC Research China, one of
the research groups at EMC Corporation, the world's leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. His
research interests include personal information management (intelligent
search) and mobile information management (mobile databases and moving
objects databases). He has published over 12 papers in refereed
international journals and conference proceedings including Geoinformatica,
JCST, SIGMOD, VLDB, CIKM, MDM etc. He has held visiting research positions
at the PRISM Lab of Versailles University in Paris (2005) and Hong Kong
Baptist University (2006). He has served as the local organizing committee
of MDM 2008 conference, the program committee of EDBT 2009 Industrial and
Applications Track, ACM CIKM 2009 Workshop on Cloud Data Management
(CloudDB), VLDB 2010 Demo Program and served as a reviewer to Journal of
Future Generation Computer Systems and Journal of Systems and Software. He
received his Ph.D. degree from Renmin University of China.