William Paul Jones

William Paul Jones
William Jones at the University of Washington in 2009
BornJuly 20, 1952
Chandler, Arizona
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Kansas
Carnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
FieldsPersonal information management
Human-computer interaction
Informatics
Cognitive science
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Microsoft
Boeing
Doctoral advisorJohn Robert Anderson (psychologist)

William Paul Jones is a pioneer of the field of personal information management (PIM). He has written extensively on the topic, holds seven patents relating to search and personal information management, and was noted for his early contribution to Planz. In 2005, he organized a seminal National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored event the "Invitational Workshop on Personal Information Management". His 2007 Annual Review of Information Systems and Technology survey Personal Information Management[1] continues to be strongly cited. His 2008 book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management[2] was well-received[3][4] and followed by a three-book series, The Future of Personal Information Management,[5][6][7] and articles in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences.[8] This and other work [9] describing a framework for understanding personal information management has been called "highly influential" by recognized researchers in the field of PIM.[10] Jones' project Keeping Found Things Found was the subject of a 2004 New York Times article[11] and a 2005 Seattle Times piece.[12]

Jones’s current work focuses on how people can manage their personal information as they age in order to better achieve optimal health, wealth and the sharing of their legacy.

Biography

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Jones’s career spans institutions from business to research lab to academic. Jones received his doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982 for empirical work and computer-based modeling of human memory. Beginning with his post-doctoral work at Bell Laboratories (later Bellcore) in Murray Hill his research turned to the relationships between human memory and computer-based systems of search and information retrieval. Jones subsequently worked in the MCC research consortium, then Boeing and finally at Microsoft before a 15-year affiliation as a research associate professor in the University of Washington Information School, where he is now Research Associate Professor Emeritus. Jones has co-authored over 40 refereed publications across the disciplines of PIM, human-computer interaction, information retrieval and cognitive psychology.

References

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  1. ^ Jones, William (2008). "Personal Information Management". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 41: 453–504. arXiv:2107.03291. doi:10.1002/aris.2007.1440410117. hdl:1773/2155.
  2. ^ Jones, William (2007). Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (1st ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-370866-3.
  3. ^ Elsweiler, David (2009). "Book review: Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management" (PDF). Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 60 (8): 1725–1727. doi:10.1002/asi.21101.
  4. ^ Kowalsky, David (2009). "Review. Keeping Found Things Founds: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management by William Jones.". Technical Communication. 56 (2): 180–181. JSTOR 43092582.
  5. ^ Jones, William (2012). "The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever". Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. 4 (1): 1–125. doi:10.2200/S00411ED1V01Y201203ICR021. ISSN 1947-945X. S2CID 44344595.
  6. ^ Jones, William (2013). Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 2. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Vol. 5. San Rafael, Calif.: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. pp. 1–179. doi:10.2200/S00532ED1V01Y201308ICR028. S2CID 32500711.
  7. ^ Jones, William (2015). Building a Better World with our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 3. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services. Vol. 3. San Rafael, Calif.: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. pp. 1–203. doi:10.2200/S00653ED1V01Y201506ICR042. ISBN 978-1-62705-341-9.
  8. ^ Jones, William; Dinneen, Jesse David; Capra, Robert; Diekema, Anne R.; Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A. (2017). "Personal Information Management (PIM)". Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Levine-Clark, M. and McDonald, J., Eds. Levine-Clark, M. and McDonald, J., Eds (4th ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis.
  9. ^ Jones, William; Teevan, Jaime, eds. (2007). Personal Information Management. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98737-8.
  10. ^ Bergman, Ofer; Whittaker, Steve (2016-11-11). The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff (1st ed.). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-262-03517-0.
  11. ^ Guernsey, Lisa (2004-01-22). "WHAT'S NEXT; Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites". New York Times. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
  12. ^ Peterson, Kim (2005-02-15). "UW ponders how to best store and retrieve electronic information". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
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