My second thesis for blogtalk was that machines will blog. DARPA is now funding an engineering research project.

Halvais reports "DARPA is funding the uberblog." Capture everything that goes in someone's life and make that information useful to the user. It is fodder for personal diary. Or for understanding what's going on in a subject's life. The project's real world challenge: wear the unit on a trip to Washington, D.C., and demo it for the brass.    

As your physical world is increasingly overlaid by cyberspaces, you need tools to sense it wherever you are. Tools to present its many digital elements for humans. Tools for navigation through and manipulation of the new sensations and history. Tools to distill the information overload through pattern recognition, clustering, semantic analysis and data visualization.

Oh, and make it unobtrusive.

The Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announcement. The LifeLog Proposer Information Pamphlet (BAA # 03-30).

Get your proposals in by 23 June 2003.